From: FStandel@nyc.rr.com   
      
   "mariella"  wrote in message   
   news:406cb461$0$4543$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au...   
   > Kaufman Cusses Clooney   
   >   
   >   
   > There's no love lost there   
   > 01 April 2004   
   > Screenwriter Charlie Kaufman is a man with a grudge - and the object of   
   that   
   > grudge is none other than the former scrubs-wearing TV doc turned   
   Hollywood   
   > A-lister George Clooney. It seems that Kaufman, whose latest film Eternal   
   > Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is out this month, is still irked by the way   
   > Clooney treated his script for Confessions of a Dangerous Mind.   
   >   
   > In an interview in the May issue of Arena magazine, Kaufman explains the   
   > situation. 'I was upset by the fact that he took the movie from me and   
   then   
   > cut me out after that. I'm unhappy with the end result. And I'm unhappy   
   with   
   > George Clooney. I had a movie that I wrote and that isn't it.'   
   >   
   > Clooney's big mistake, it transpires, was to take Kaufman's script and   
   > tinker around with it. 'I've always been involved in the process with   
   Spike   
   > (Jonze) and Michel (Gondry),' Charlies says. 'If there's any rewriting to   
   > do, I do it. But with Clooney it was different.even the end of the movie   
   is   
   > different. I mean, Clooney went on forever about how my   
   > Confessions.screenplay was one of the greatest scripts he'd read. But if   
   > someone truthfully felt that way they they'd want the person who wrote it   
   to   
   > be onboard offering their thoughts and criticisms. But Clooney didn't. And   
   I   
   > think it's a silly way to be a director.'   
   >   
   > Thankfully Kaufman isn't letting his Clooney chagrin keep him from   
   planning   
   > new ways to bemuse and befuddle cinema audiences the world over. 'Spike   
   and   
   > I recently pitched this idea for a scary movie to Sony pictures. I don't   
   > have a title for it yet and I'm not even sure what the plot's going to be.   
   > But that's the way I write: without knowing where something is going.'   
   >   
   > You can read the full interview with Charlie Kaufman in the May issue of   
   > Arena which will be on newsstands Friday 2 April 2004. To make sure of   
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   > copy in future, click here to subscribe.   
   >   
   >   
   > http://www.empireonline.co.uk/site/news/newsstory.asp?news_id=15727   
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   Yikes. Another writer upset by the Hollywood game. I haven't read the   
   original screenplay, if one is available anywhere. I'm curious to see what   
   changes were made. Kaufman, IMO, is a very talented writer who airs on the   
   side of odd. I thought COADM was a good movie and could see Kaufman's style   
   put into it. Like I said, I'd love to read the original script. Hmm.   
      
   Feesha   
      
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