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Kellerman's own script, Three Men One Woman, is named for the identical cast breakdown of the five short plays that compose the work. Though his previous productions have been admired for their haunting realism and nuanced portrayals of human weakness and emotion, 3M1W features a group of characters that includes everything from mad scientists and senior citizens to government officials and secretaries to beer-guzzling down-home boys. Kellerman bypassed common casting in order to hand-pick his actors. John Keefe '01, used to performing in musicals, acted alongside Kellerman in Children of Eden earlier this year; Jonathan Steinberger...
...five wholly different parts is a challenging exercise in spontaneity and stamina, but Kellerman thinks his actors can live up to the endeavor. "Most of all," the director says, "these actors are smart. They have taken hold of their roles, truly creating characters." As the writer of his own script, Kellerman appreciated the opportunity to engage the actors in a dynamic process of verbal revision and growth. "If a line falls flat," Kellerman notes, "I can say, 'Let's cut it or try something else.'" On the other hand, if one of the performers delivers an impromptu funny punch, Kellerman...
...bookstores within walking distance for every tidbit of equine knowledge available in print. The 800-word limit seemed hugely unreasonable--I had so much to explain. How could a subject which occupied my entire bookshelf at home be reduced to four double-space pages of loosely cursive script...
...screenwriter David Franzoni read Daniel P. Mannix's Those About to Die, a briskly lurid history of the Roman games. "It really made a connection between that era and ours," Franzoni says, "about how sports heroes are slavishly worshiped by their fans." A few years ago, while writing his script for Steven Spielberg's Amistad, he worked on an idea about gladiators as "commercialized idols, their endorsements on frescoes, chariots and jars of olive oil." When Scott was hired, he brought in John Logan (Any Given Sunday) to create Maximus' life as a slave and playwright William Nicholson (Shadowlands...
...tyrant. A hard-drinking perfectionist, he got into brawls with villagers on one location and laid such waste to his rented villa in Morocco that the caretaker protested to Scott, saying "He must leave! He is violating every tenet of the Koran!" Crowe questioned every aspect of the evolving script and strode off the set when he did not get answers. Says a DreamWorks exec: "Russell was not well behaved. He tried to rewrite the entire script on the spot. You know the big line in the trailer, 'In this life or the next, I will have my vengeance...