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...frees things up. A huge bulk of text onstage is fed over to describing what's happened, what's going to happen, but the great thing about film is that you can show it and cut all that descriptive dialogue and verse. What [director] Michael Radford did with the script was cut about a third without sacrificing the story line. As a result, the story plays much more dramatically. In the film, your character, Antonio, has to spit on Al Pacino's character, Shylock. What was that like? Actually, with the way movies are filmed now, I was spitting...
...wise men, like one who e-mailed a top White House official after a presidential press conference. "I wish he had found a way to admit a mistake. The press corps is not going to let the issue go away," the e-mailer wrote. He even offered Bush a script: "One mistake was my initial opposition to [establishing the Department of] Homeland Security. Another mistake was initial opposition to the 9/11 commission, and another mistake was my failure to address the problems between the FBI and the CIA." As Kerry became more aggressive in his criticism of Bush's Iraq...
...which is, itself, based off of Cosby’s standup routine about his childhood. Directed by Joel Zwick (coming off aptly enough from the high of another “fat” movie, My Big Fat Greek Wedding) and produced by Cosby, who also co-wrote the script with Charles Kipps, the problem-solving “big guy with the big heart” will get his own movie this Christmas...
...says he hopes the book is read by people interested in foreign policy, but at a different angle than that to which they are accustomed. “When you read something in academic prose it’s like the script of a film,” he says. “Fiction increases the impact of the words. Some words that would be cool and passionless appear different when set on the edge of a cliff or in the middle of a storm. It allows you to generate tension and passion...
...screenplay In the Name of the Father (1993). George searched for a Hollywood studio that would bring Rusesabagina’s story to the silver screen. But several top Hollywood execs refused to put their money behind the film. “They all thought it was a good script, but they weren’t interested in making it,” George admits in a recent interview...