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"Charlton Heston, a star who defied the Hollywood liberals, dies at [sic] 83," it said in the headline -- because, you know, that was the important point of his career -- and then going on in the lede to note with some charge the reaction his ideological costume-change brought.
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Justin Zackham has led the kind of life that makes young people do rash and stupid things -- like work day jobs and write screenplays. He's started an indie production company called Two Ton Films with his childhood best friend Clay Pecorin, who handles the money and business side of the operation.
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Then 10 years later he could sell it to a studio, run it under rocky condiitions for a few years and then leave to start an independent company with the help of investor money.
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Part of the reason Edelstein seemed to point the finger at Harvey in the first place is to blunt just this criticism of Minghella; it's a lot less provocative to knock a late artist's work if you say he was the victim of a nettlesome studio exec.
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Sony and DreamWorks are still seeking the golden spec, but it's many of the new companies, the ones that engendered the 'thank-God-we-have-more-choices quotes from agents way back when, who, execs say, are coming through with the checks. It's hard to say how long this resurgent market will last.
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The first part is probably why one-off hits can't be effectively sent up, as Bob Saget learned the hard way with his straight-to-video "Farce of the Penguins." (And yet he never seems to learn...)
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He joked that the studios are "sneaking black faces" into the board room to make it look like they're integrated, but what they're really doing is plucking blue-collar workers and dressing them up for the meeting. "Then you leave and they kick their asses back to the mail room," he quipped.
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Fox/Frankel admirably realized that when you try to make a newsroom seem real on a Hollywood lot you end up with a really bad simulation --that is, you end up with "Superman Returns."
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Though it's been heavily rumored that New Line's "Sex and the City" movie will pop up at Cannes, there's at least one person who's not so sure it's a great idea: Sarah Jessica Parker. "That?s a big deal for those women and men who really stuck with us, who don't want to know the ending.
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