Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...spirit of Japan's most popular mutant antihero was solemnly handed to Dean Devlin, 35, and Roland Emmerich, 42, in 1996, almost as soon as the pair signed to produce and direct a new version of the monster classic. "We had to read it before we could write the script," says Devlin. The implicit caution: thou shall not take Godzilla's name in vain...
...with the President, say she was fantasizing on those tapes and stalking and hanging around, but nothing more. If she calls the President to testify on her behalf, he'll say the same things. Everything else Starr has is largely circumstantial, so long as everyone sticks to the script. And to indict her for lying about sex in a civil case that's been dismissed, on a matter not even central to that case--Starr could do it, but that would be a small trophy for the $40 million he has spent to get there...
...Godzilla. This updating of the old Japanese monster series, by the Independence Day team, has been teased so cannily ("Size Does Matter") that now industry folk have only one debate: Which film will come in second? Analyst Alan Kassan of Deutsche Morgan Grenfell picks Saving Private Ryan. "A great script, Steven Spielberg directing, Tom Hanks starring--I'd take points in that...
...does a smashing turn (accompanied by a grungy back-up band) as the fictional Hedwig, avoids high camp, low sex jokes and Judy Garland impressions. True, Hedwig's stage patter has its share of double entendres ("I do love a warm hand on my entrance"), but the literate script is also a poignant meditation on loneliness, gender confusion and the Platonic notion that sex is the effort to reconnect two halves of one ideal being. All of this is embellished by 10 muscular, melodic rock songs by Stephen Trask, which combine hard-driving punk with Beatles-style lyricism...
...deadly path. We could probably do with fewer of ambitious TV reporter Tea Leoni's problems with her wayward dad, but on the whole there are worse people with whom to spend our (presumably final) days. Director Mimi Leder handles the scene of mass panic very well, and the script does not allow the world to escape disaster completely unscathed. That's believable, and so are the nicely understated moments of self-sacrifice that bring the movie to its emotionally redemptive climax...