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...turn, stuck to his bland and uninspired script. "Married for 34 years?.I'm not a perfect man?I never asked anyone to lie?." He followed the Lenny Bruce dictum so often embraced by politicians and raised to an art form by Bill Clinton: deny, deny, deny...
...deals," says Zucker. "But then when we laid out the schedule, it was four or five or six weeks for each actor." He quickly set his sights on a cast that was much cheaper, yet rich in comic abilities. Under Zucker's guidance, Breckman spent nine months honing the script to make the most of those talents...
...modern biology. Genetic material from the cell being studied is poured over the microarray and incubated in a solution containing fluorescent snippets of the same genes. If a gene is active, a corresponding gene on the microarray glows under UV light--a visual snapshot of the cell's genetic script. "Microarrays," says Brown, "offer an easy way to see the language the genome uses to send instructions that define every cell in your body...
Brown's technique proved so effective that it has been adopted by geneticists and drug designers around the world. Brown uses microarrays to compare the genetic script in healthy cells with the script in diseased cells, and he recently discovered that several malignancies assumed to be the result of a specific cancer were actually two or more distinct cancers when viewed on a molecular level. "It was like thinking a stomachache has only one cause," Brown says. "Recognizing the distinctions makes it possible for us to do a better job of treating these cancers...
John Milius, the author of the original script, thought of Apocalypse as a modern Odyssey. He gave it a modern Cyclops (Robert Duvall's demented surfer stud Kilgore, who thinks napalm "smells like victory") and a group of Sirens (the Playboy Playmates who entertain the horny troops). Coppola, deep into his own Big Muddy in the Philippines, was calling his film "the Idiodyssey." He soon felt himself devolving from Willard to Kurtz--from the man on a quest to the madman at its end. But he was enough of a showman to release a picture of Academy-consideration length...