The three time screenwriting Oscar winner Paddy Chaefsky (MARTY, THE HOSPITAL and NETWORK) took a brief moment to remind Vanessa Redgrave that the Academy Awards was not designed to be a platform for personal propaganda and that a simple thank you for the 1978 Best Supporting Actress award for JULIA would have sufficed.
He then addressed the more important subject of the role of the screenwriter.
NETWORK
A television network cynically exploits a deranged former anchor's ravings and revelations about the news media for its own profit, but finds that his message may be difficult to control.
A bit ahead of itself in 1976 but Chayefsky's script foreshadowed the dangerous world we now live in.
Watch below as Ned Beatty explains the realities of the world.
CHINATOWN
Robert Towne's brilliant script transfers the water wars that transformed Los Angeles from a desert to the megalopolis of today to the more cinematographic 1930s.
ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN
Although we know how the story will end William Goldman's script keeps us on the edge of our seats
ADVVENTURES IN THE SCREEN TRADE
No one knows the writer's Hollywood more intimately than William Goldman. Two-time Academy Award-winning screenwriter and the bestselling author of The Princess Bride, Marathon Man, Tinsel, Boys and Girls Together, and other novels, Goldman now takes you behind the scenes for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, All the President's Men, and other films . . . .into the plush offices of Hollywood producers . . ..into the working lives of acting greats such as Redford, Olivier, Newman, and Hoffman...and into his own professional experiences and creative thought processes in the crafting of screenplays. You get a firsthand look at why and how films get made and what elements make a good screenplay. Says columnist Liz Smith, "You'll be fascinated.."
R.I. P–Gena Rowlands
Blonde, elegant and passionate she was a personal favorite who sacrificed a glamorous, banal Hollywood career to make daring films with her husband John Cassavettes.
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Jeanne Moreau took a break from shooting Jules et Jim and joined us
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