Word: studioful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...movie begins, Griffin Mill (Tim Robbins), the senior v.p. of production at a major studio, feels his security eroding. An ambitious parvenu named Larry Levy (Peter Gallagher) has designs on Mill's job. Furthermore, an anonymous and extremely angry screenwriter keeps sending Mill a series of death-threats written on postcards. Unable to tell anyone what is happening, Mill takes matters into his own hands, killing a screenwriter and taking up with his girlfriend. However, the threats don't stop, and the movie is off and running...
...none of them. I'd say, 'I'm doing this film about a studio executive who murders a writer.' And they'd laugh...
Given that he depends on the Hollywood establishment to help make and sell his movies, his undisguised contempt for certain Hollywood big shots is also something to behold. Earlier this year, when The Player was being shown to prospective distributors, Altman got in a public spat with two top studio executives over what he considered their disrespectful attitude. Ask Altman innocently about his 1985 movie that Sam Shepard wrote and starred in, and he cannot stop himself. "Fool for Love . . . I mean, I can't abide Sam Shepard." As an actor? "As a person. I just...
...succeeding in convincing voters, whether or not they believe his denials of involvement with Flowers, that the matter is a closed book, with nothing more to be said, and not terribly important anyway. When Phil Donahue persisted in grilling him about adultery, Clinton won vociferous applause from the studio audience by informing the TV host that they would all "sit for a long time in silence" if Donahue did not get onto something else. But there are also hints that the issue is helping open a gender gap against Clinton. Illinois pollster J. Michael McKeon reports that dissatisfaction with Clinton...
Othello should be just the beginning of a true restoration. Welles made only 18 films, and at least five might-be masterpieces remain to be seen. It's All True, a three-part Technicolor film Welles shot in Brazil in 1942, ran afoul of censors and studio executives, and the film was aborted. In the late '60s Welles shot part of The Deep (Dead Calm), with Laurence Harvey and Jeanne Moreau. Around the same time he completed a 40-min., stripped-down (no Portia) version of The Merchant of Venice, but somebody stole the sound track. The Other Side...