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...years ago, as my parents were moving into a retirement home, we found Alexander's adoption papers, handwritten in elegant script and signed by two Hawaiians, Kailiino and Kekua, first names only, as was the Hawaiian practice at the time. While on vacation that spring in Maui, I took the papers into the Lahaina Restoration Foundation in hopes of learning more. "Too bad the name is Jardin and not Farden," said the museum director. He showed me a book, Sweet Voices of Lahaina: The Life Story of Maui's Fabulous Fardens, by Mary C. Richards. "The Fardens are well-known...
...success of films with more exposition than explosions suggests that the days of special effects first, script second, may be over. "Audiences want more than just computer-generated effects," says box office analyst Jae Kim, who predicts that the next film to watch is Steven Spielberg's WWII drama "Saving Private Ryan," which opens July 24. "The movie's going to be filled with high-end special effects, but Spielberg is letting the story do the heavy lifting...
Eventually, management did kick us out. Reluctantly, we gathered our belongings and headed out the door. I started to wonder if, thirty years from now, the four of us could still get together and play out the same script all over again...
Eyre and Alexie are also lining up future projects. Eyre is readying a biopic about imprisoned activist Leonard Peltier. Alexie plans on directing a script based on his 1996 book Indian Killer, sort of a Native American Psycho involving a murderer who scalps his victims. Though he'll continue with novels and poetry, Alexie has staked out his new territory. "I love the way movies have more power than books," he says. "They continue the oral tradition, the way we all sit around the fire and listen to stories." And in them, the Indians...
...after another late night at the office, lounging with a photo journal in her bathtub, where she notices that a pipe from the apartment immediately upstairs from hers has sprung a leak through her ceiling. Cholodenko, whose script won the Screenwriting Award at this spring's Sundance Film Festival, is nonetheless more than willing to throw in a few unlikely convolutions--the landlord doesn't answer his phone (apparently for days), Syd has a way with a wrench and some duct tape--to shuttle her protagonist into the upstairs den of depraved sophistication where her story will take...