Word: specs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...love for trashy horror flicks like Herschell Gordon Lewis' Blood Feast and 2000 Maniacs. Now jump-cut to 1990, when they sell an original comedy about a bad seed called Problem Child but become dejected by the unfunny film that is made. To cheer themselves up, they write a spec script about the worst auteur in cinema history, Ed Wood. Batman director Tim Burton reads it and signs on, and when the movie garners critical praise, the guys decide to stick with their new formula. "Most biopic pitches you hear in Hollywood are about 'The first person to blah-blah...
Niccol sold his spec script to the world's savviest producer, Scott Rudin (In & Out, Clueless, The First Wives Club), who took it straight to Carrey. "Jim had the kind of madness the project needed to ultimately get made," he says. "And his warmth was a hedge against a movie that could have been on the cold side and needed someone with audience sympathy...
...Harvard's Undergraduate Council has a hardtime living up to expectations built up from thepast, consider the difficulties facing UPenn'sSpecial Events and Planning Committee (SPEC...
After years of Spring Fling headliners thatincluded Cypress Hill, A Tribe Called Quest, andthe Violent Femmes, SPEC has encountered criticismthis year despite its four-band "Funk MusicFestival...
...have bands playing in theQuadrangle, some of which are signed with labelsand others of which are student bands," SPEC chairSean Steinmarc says. "We also have `bouncyboxing,' where students bounce around in aninflated ring and box with oversized gloves...