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Eszterhas on Script and Star Craft

2006-Sep-6 by Laughcalvin

The author of classic H-wood Fare dishes on the craft of screenwriting and how the 'folks' who say them get by here in the grid. Here are some stand-outs:

 

  • "Val Kilmer is an imbecile. Asked by the Academy to nominate the three best film moments of the century, Kilmer nominated three of his movies. One of them was 'Batman Forever.'"
  • "For many years, Robert De Niro, always brilliant onscreen, couldn't even say two words on his own. He'd sit there, not speaking - woefully, miserably, pathetically lost without the words of a script."
  • "You don't want Edward Norton to star in your movie. He now rewrites all the scripts he agrees to act in."
  • And Eszterhas claims that when Madonna was trying to get the part in "Desperately Seeking Susan," she went to the office of Orion production chief Barbara Boyle, "dropped to her knees and said, 'I'll do anything to get this part.' Boyle said, 'I'm happily married and I'm straight,' to which Madonna replied, 'You should try everything once.'" (NY Daily News)

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