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I was two thirds into the screenplay when I had the distinct feeling that air was leaking from the tyres.
That drunken morning reminded me of Brideshead Revisited (Mortimer wrote the screenplay), when Charles Ryder meets Sebastian at Oxford.
Mr. Reiser and Mr. Rogen came up with the idea for the screenplay when Mr. Reiser was in treatment, but it took awhile to get started on it.
Midnight Cowboy won three in 1969 for best picture, director and screenplay when the NC-17's precursor, X, was still used to categorise adult-oriented films.
Warner Brothers handpicked him to produce "The Town" — starring Ben Affleck, who also directed and helped write the screenplay — when the original producer, Graham King, had to focus on other projects.
The unfortunate young man, who had been reading an abandoned copy of the author's screenplay when he lost consciousness, was rescued by the Hungarian who was at last provided with an original story idea.
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Ephron is one of the funniest and most dazzlingly dry writers alive, a fact as much in evidence in her Oscar-nominated screenplays ( When Harry Met Sally, Sleepless in Seattle) and novel (Heartburn, her roman à clef about her failed marriage to Watergate exposer Carl Bernstein) as in her journalism, written between 1965 and 1975.
How tempting it is to shout warnings across time and space – as Parker picks another younger, unsuitable lover, or goes on another binge, or keeps running back to Hollywood to write screenplays when she should have been in New York finishing her novel.
Q: With your own screenplays, when you adapt history for a movie, are there any inviolate truths about history that must not be compromised?
Her most-often-quoted line might be from her screenplay for "When Harry Met Sally…": "I'll have what she's having".
It wasn't as bad as the time Dead Poets Society won best screenplay over When Harry Met Sally (I know – I KNOW), but it wasn't far flipping off.
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