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...advantages of e-campaigning. Last Tuesday, Senator John McCain's campaign, under attack by George W. Bush's forces for its tax-cut plan, sent out 50,000 e-mails to its volunteers across the U.S. Within 12 hours, 1,100 of them had responded, been given a sample script, and were working the phones...
...married to director Spike Jonze (Being John Malkovich), Sofia read Jeffrey Eugenides' cult novel about five suicidal teen sisters and started a script before she even had the rights. The $3.5 million film, with Kathleen Turner and James Woods as the girls' parents, was produced by Dad's American Zoetrope. If it leads to a brilliant career, tomorrow's moviegoers may hear the name Francis Coppola and say, "That guy--wasn't he...Sofia Coppola's father...
...movie--is the work of eight writers, including Chase, working from story arcs that he sketches each season. One of the writers, actor Michael Imperioli, not only is an accomplished screenwriter (Summer of Sam) but also plays a Soprano soldier who dreams of writing movies. Imperioli gave Chase a script on spec last season for the chance to write in "a writer's medium, rather than a director's... I felt like such a part of this world, writing for actors I knew." The team shares a gift for the fluid patter of Northeastern Italian Americans (like Chase, ancestral name...
Executive producer Linwood Boomer (3rd Rock from the Sun) loosely based the series on his own more prosaic experience of being labeled "gifted" and growing up in a California household of "four monstrously hungry kids who broke everything." His script charmed Fox entertainment president Doug Herzog, who committed to 13 episodes despite the show's cost (shot with a single camera for a more cinematic look, it costs about $1 million an episode, compared with at least $750,000 per half-hour sitcom). The producers launched a nationwide search for Boomer's megabrained alter ego and found Muniz...
...Well, when I improvise, it's not like I'm making fun of the person. In some ways I felt like I totally already knew the character, but in other ways, Paul had synthesized that character into the script and added a lot more weight to him, and a whole romantic angle, and so I had to flesh it out at the same time. And then, also, I spent a lot of time with policemen... After we did those improvisations and I started to prepare for the movie I went out policemen in North Hollywood and drove around with them...