“I had an idea,” he told me. “It started when I was hearing people who are no longer in their 20s or 30s. Or even 40s. They complained their greatest pastime in the old days was the movies. Now, they say, they don’t go. Why? Because there’s little for them to see. They hate all this violence with close-ups of heads being blown off. They hate the fast and furious special effects stuff. They hate graphic spitty sexy scenes where you actually see up, down and in everything. They’ve already been there. They know what’s there. They don’t need movies made for 14-year-olds.”
Yeah, so?
“So I’ve put together a whole group who are the A-1 in the business. Top actors like Robert Duvall want in on this. We’re getting those names who know great old-fashioned storytelling directing, and those names who’ve written the best screenplays of our time. I’ve made a list and I’m gathering great people who are 65-70 but don’t anymore have the opportunity to sell their ideas in today’s industry.
“We’ll deliver product that targets the baby boomers. This is a huge market comprised of men and women who are now feeling out of it. And it happens that this group has today’s biggest disposable income.”
Roll the dice.
CNN cutting Paula Zahn loose? Plop ping in NBC’s Campbell Brown? Re member, kiddies, mother told you all that first . . . Vanessa Redgrave, often called one of our greatest living actresses, on if she ever blows lines onstage: “Oh, Lord, yes. I know what I’m supposed to be saying, but sometimes my brain is off. What I do is substitute one verb for another or stick in my own words. It’s not what the playwright had in mind, but it gets me through.” . . . All these scandals with all these baseball players has caused the sport to institute rigorous examinations. I happen to know that several of the athletes have already tested positive for I.Q. >PAGE 1>
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