Post by Yossarian on Sept 5, 2006 20:03:36 GMT -4
Revenge of a screenwriter:
Ew, urine bath ...
Sharon Stone may have the killer instinct - but film crew members could have murdered her, a new book claims.
Her antics on the film set so irritated them that they urinated in a bathtub before she got in it to film a scene.
Screenwriter Joe Eszterhas, who penned films including Basic Instinct, Flashdance and Showgirls, dishes the dirt on top stars in his new book, The Devil's Guide to Hollywood: The Screenwriter as God.
Val Kilmer, Michael Douglas and Robert De Niro are all targeted, according to the New York Daily News.
Eszterhas apparently claims Stone's behaviour "so annoyed the crew on one of her movies that they relieved themselves into a bathtub before Sharon got into it for her scene".
Of De Niro, Esztehas reportedly writes: "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."
Of Kilmer: "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.'"
And of Douglas: "Michael Douglas, in my experience, is not brilliant and may very well, in some cases, be dumb. This is the guy who wanted to change the ending of 'Basic Instinct' because it wasn't 'redemptive.' Douglas didn't like that he was the star of the movie and that [Sharon Stone] 'one-ups me at every turn.'"
Warren Beatty also comes in for some flak. "The joke in Hollywood is that Warren Beatty, the 'great auteur,' can turn a 'go' movie into a development deal. He'll get involved, work with six writers rewriting your script, then pull out of the project."
Her antics on the film set so irritated them that they urinated in a bathtub before she got in it to film a scene.
Screenwriter Joe Eszterhas, who penned films including Basic Instinct, Flashdance and Showgirls, dishes the dirt on top stars in his new book, The Devil's Guide to Hollywood: The Screenwriter as God.
Val Kilmer, Michael Douglas and Robert De Niro are all targeted, according to the New York Daily News.
Eszterhas apparently claims Stone's behaviour "so annoyed the crew on one of her movies that they relieved themselves into a bathtub before Sharon got into it for her scene".
Of De Niro, Esztehas reportedly writes: "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."
Of Kilmer: "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.'"
And of Douglas: "Michael Douglas, in my experience, is not brilliant and may very well, in some cases, be dumb. This is the guy who wanted to change the ending of 'Basic Instinct' because it wasn't 'redemptive.' Douglas didn't like that he was the star of the movie and that [Sharon Stone] 'one-ups me at every turn.'"
Warren Beatty also comes in for some flak. "The joke in Hollywood is that Warren Beatty, the 'great auteur,' can turn a 'go' movie into a development deal. He'll get involved, work with six writers rewriting your script, then pull out of the project."
Ew, urine bath ...
