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...Moulin Rouge seemed to pave the way for this film, Chicago has actually been in the works for decades. Soon after the original production opened on Broadway in 1975, director Bob Fosse began planning a movie version. When Fosse died in 1987, says producer Marty Richards, "I took the script, threw it in a drawer and said, 'That's the end of that.'" Then eight years ago, Miramax's Harvey Weinstein wondered what had happened. "He had seen it as a young person and was passionate about it," says Richards. When a revival of Chicago opened on Broadway...
...musical numbers would take place as elaborate vaudeville routines in the dreamy imagination of Roxie. "The hardest part about musicals is that scary moment when characters start to sing," says Marshall, who recruited screenwriter Bill Condon (Oscar winner for 1998's Gods and Monsters) to write the script. As the prison matron (Queen Latifah) speaks, Roxie's eyes begin to dance; suddenly, Latifah metamorphoses into a full-bodied chanteuse whose rendition of When You're Good to Mama brings down the house. When Roxie's husband (John C. Reilly) takes the blame for her crime, Roxie's warm thoughts become...
...vehicle for his directorial debut. So he has journeyed to a modest office in an apartment block in Beijing to seek advice from the master, Zhang Yimou. He's come to the right place. The celebrated director favors Hou with an impassioned soliloquy on his interpretation of the script: why Hou should use narrative repetition to create pathos, why the antique wardrobe stays in the same place for three decades, why the mother and the daughter never speak to each other at dinner. At the end of a breathless three hours, he sounds a cautionary note on the perils...
...starving?but also to wrestle a nonaggression treaty from the U.S. Kim figures he will have to get it while Washington remains occupied with Iraq. Last week's announcement that the country would reactivate its five-megawatt nuclear reactor in Yongbyon appeared to be another page from Kim's script. The facility was shut down under a 1994 agreement because it was capable of producing weapons-grade plutonium. But with the American government suspending oil shipments, the North claims its obligations to the U.S. are now null and void...
Whether audiences will be amused or annoyed by the final product is an open question. Director Spike Jonze is a Seinfeldian surrealist, and it's fun, especially if you happen to be a writer, to see Charlie trying to concentrate on his script while visions of coffee and a banana-nut muffin dance distractingly in his head...