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...your own." He has already checked off teen flick (Dazed and Confused), western (The Newton Boys), romance (Before Sunrise), sequel (Before Sunset), animation (Waking Life), sci-fi (A Scanner Darkly, due in 2006), filmed play (Tape) and a kids' movie (School of Rock). If you've got a script for an Elizabethan musical, now might be the time to send it over...
Plus, Bears is a pretty dark kids' movie, with a script by the guys who wrote the liquored-up Christmas movie, Bad Santa. The new film centers on a drunken, lecherous former pro player (Billy Bob Thornton, taking Walter Matthau's role) who agrees to coach a bunch of talentless Little Leaguers in exchange for cash. "There's a good bit of rebellion and subversiveness in it and all the values I'd want to put out in mainstream culture," Linklater says...
...ULLMANN: Yes, he wouldn't work with someone who hadn't been part of stage life. I think all his actors always have to belong to the stage. And, obviously, we get the whole script. He also feels that we are bright enough, have time to see enough, experience enough, to read into it what we understand of the characters. So he will never say what you are thinking, or why you are doing something. He will give the blockings; then he will sit and watch. He may be very inspired by an actor who is giving him something that...
...Jeremy's bonding is, well, not exactly homoerotic, more like the intimacy of college-prankster soul mates--fratonic. They may want to have sex with strangers, but they most enjoy being a team. And the most heartfelt I-love-yous the guys say are to each other. The script's burden is to pry the buddies apart and get them to chase women meaningfully...
...1940s and '50s who, along with T.S. Eliot, was responsible for a brief, midcentury revival of verse drama; in Chichester, England. While celebrated for plays like The Lady's Not for Burning, he reached his biggest audience when he was hired by director William Wyler as a script doctor and did a rewrite for the epic 1959 film...