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...prove equally arduous. O'Grady filed suit last week against 20th Century Fox, claiming that the 2001 movie Behind Enemy Lines, about a U.S. soldier shot down over Bosnia, ripped him off. But last November, before he saw the film, O'Grady told TIME he had read the script and wasn't bothered by similarities. "Anything that's semipatriotic is good because I'm patriotic," he said. A Fox representative says, "We were surprised because at the time of release, Mr. O'Grady's public comments acknowledged that the movie was not his story." What changed? Just before the film...
...series that the big networks could make but rarely do. It's a lighthearted whodunit--think of '70s shows like The Rockford Files--but with added sophistication and poignance, in part because of Shalhoub's dryly funny performance. But Shalhoub almost didn't take the part. "I liked [the script]," he says, "but I didn't see myself doing it." His manager told him to take a second look. "She was trying to tell me in a covert way that it was well suited to me." She was right. There's a touch of sweet-hearted madness in many...
...acronym) marked the most tonic collaboration-collision of an indie filmmaker and a major studio. 20th Century Fox, which owned the rights to a sequel of the Jacqueline Susann book and hit film "Valley of the Dolls," hired Meyer for the job; and Meyer hired Ebert to write the script. It was just at the time - call it the "Easy Rider" era - when studio bosses briefly convinced themselves they knew nothing about the huge new youth audience and were ready to hand the keys over to dopers, arty types and the occasional tittenfilmer...
...earlier research, Edelman wrote a script to run thousands of websites through the Internet filtering software N2H2 and see which sites the filtering software blocked and which ones made it through...
...19th century peasants battle their Brit overlords in a game of cricket (Lagaan, nominated this year for an Oscar). A naive media star falls in love with a terrorist (many recent films have used this politically explosive plot device, including Mission Kashmir, for which Mehta collaborated on the script...