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...doctoral program, working as an instructor in the math department of Princeton University. He says he laughed it off when Eleanor Bergstein, a local first-time screenwriter—still seven years away from writing Dirty Dancing, her only success—said she had a script she wanted him to look over. After all, he says, who doesn’t have a screenplay in her bottom drawer that she hawks to junior math faculty from time to time...
...script, by the Coens, John Romano, Robert Ramsey and Matthew Stone, sets Miles Massey (George Clooney), a Beverly Hills divorce lawyer with fabulous teeth and midlife ennui, against gorgeous, oft-married Marilyn Rexroth (Catherine Zeta-Jones). Miles is beguiled by her beauty and cunning, and she might be attracted to him, if he hadn't weaseled her out of a fortune and if she weren't about to marry a Texas zillionaire (Billy Bob Thornton...
Fredriksen has been a central figure in the controversy over the film, as one of a handful of scholars accused of illegally obtaining an early version of the script and conspiratorially branding it anti-Semitic. She explains what she says is the legitimate manner through which she obtained the script in her New Republic article, “Mad Mel,” which then systematically details the numerous historical inaccuracies she says pervade the screenplay...
Among them, she says, is the claim that Greek would have been the proper language of communication between the Romans and Jews, not Latin. Fredriksen further maintains that any last-minute changes Gibson might make to the script won’t be sufficient in cleansing it of inconsistencies...
Included in the original script, Gibson later altered the speaker of the line, which now emerges from the mouth of Jewish high priest Caiaphas. Gibson says he did so only under intense pressure from the film’s editor, stating that if he left the line in, “they’d be coming after me at my house, they’d come to kill...