[on why he passed on Fatal Attraction (1987)] There wasn’t a grain of originality in it – it was Play Misty for Me (1971) with Michael Douglas filling in for Clint Eastwood. Also, the original version, the script I read, had Glenn Close winning in the end by killing herself and thereby getting the moral upper hand. I knew the audience was never going to buy that. The audience was always gonna want to see the wife shoot the bitch. Sure enough, they shot the original script, previewed it, got booed off screen and went back and shot the ending you see today. That was a journey I couldn’t be bothered to go on.
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Happy Birthday: Lin-Manuel Miranda
Lin-Manuel Miranda Born: January 16, 1980 in New York City, New York, USA Miranda won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for writing the book, music, and lyrics for Hamilton: An American Musical. The citation read, “A landmark American musical about the gifted and self-destructive founding father whose story becomes both contemporary and irresistible.” [Miranda’s… Continue reading Happy Birthday: Lin-Manuel Miranda
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