Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Jack Epps and Jim Cash are established Hollywood screenwriters now working on their eighth script. Top Gun, a tale about Navy fighter pilots, is one of their stories. So is Whereabouts, a story about two people who must find each other within 24 hours to win a prize of $100,000. If neither of these titles seems familiar, it may be because Epps and Cash have never had a feature film made. "There are times when you just don't believe they make movies," says Epps. Still, there are compensations. The price for an Epps-Cash script goes up with...
Writer Nora Ephron is two for eight on the big screen. The first success was Silkwood, which she co-wrote with Alice Arlen. Now a second Ephron script is being produced: Heartburn, based on her own best seller, which leaves her twelve movies behind her parents, Phoebe and Henry Ephron (Desk Set, Carousel). "For me to get 14 films made," says Ephron, "at my current rate of about one in four, I'd have to write 56 scripts and live to be 132. When they show the name of the studio at the beginning of a film, it should...
...Candy's performance in his first feature film is only slightly funnier than Jason Robards' starring performance in The Day After. Actually, the script of Summer Rental has more to do with this movie's quality than Candy's performance does, and one feels sorry for the rotund actor who tries admirably, but can't save this sagging film...
...land with a new language -- the climax does not ring true. It is too improbable: a smash hit and Oscars galore for his second American film, One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), more profits and honors with last year's Amadeus. Sorry, pal. Send the script to Sly Stallone...
John Huston has done some wonderful directing of Richard Condon's script, but try as the famed director may, he cannot overcome an overly tangled plot. Condon's two-hour-and-15-minute screenplay confuses everybody until the end, when Condon simplifies matters only by killing most of the cast...