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Monthly Archives: August 2001
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Have you ever thought about publishing the screenplays? ^ We had a deal to publish one of the screenplays once. In fact, Crumb did a few drawings for it....
Thora Birch really did an amazing job in the film and according to Dan, put on 30 pounds for the role. It's a long way from being a kid in "Monkey...
How do you go from making "Crumb," a documentary, to a narrative feature like Ghost World? ^ Not much carried over. There's not much overlap. The one...
Things started to smell bad back in September, 1998, when George Lucas announced the title for the first film of the Star Wars prequel trilogy -- "The...
Upon hearing the title for "Episode II," Ewan McGregor couldn't help but burst out laughing. McGregor was at the Hollywood Film Festival along with Nicole...
The struggle to tear down racial barriers within the world of classical opera is the subject of the intriguing yet curiously jumbled documentary "Aida's...
Thirty years ago, the Otto Preminger film version of the classic opera "Porgy and Bess" was withdrawn from circulation by the estate of George Gershwin,...
It's hard to believe how much of an impact a cruddy, little movie like "The Blair Witch Project" can have. Every small-time, hack filmmaker seems to want a...
Roger Milato (John Gregorio) is an average, thirtysomething guy taking a class in Spanish. He just happens to be smitten with a beautiful, young classmate...
Director Brett Ratner ("Whatever Happened to Mason Reese," "Money Talks") was relatively new to the Hollywood scene when his action-comedy Rush Hour took...
