If you liked our Richard Powers roundtable, I’m pleased to report that I’m organizing another one in December. More details to come.
Month / October 2006
BSS #73: Joe Eszterhas
Author: Joe Eszterhas
Condition of Mr. Segundo: Groping for borrowed salacious content.
Subjects Discussed: Ambrose Bierce, the screenwriter as god, exclamation points, Robert McKee, the “twisted little man” inside Eszterhas, cynics in Hollywood, William Goldman, the reasons for writing Basic Instinct, Jagged Edge, on pinpointing commercial hits, bringing wives to studio meetings, greed, stealing props from films, the ethics of Hollywood business, fighting studio executives, crotch shots, Paul Verhoeven, blaming Bush for everything, responding to Joe Queenan’s review, bedding stars, Charlie Simpson’s Apocaylpse, Bill Clinton, studio movies vs. independent movies, Children of Glory, and writing novels.
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By the Light of the Subliminal Moon
Scientific American: “Even when such pictures were actively canceled out, subliminal images of female nudes helped heterosexual men find the orientation of a briefly shown abstract shape.”