MOVIE LEGEND: Alexander Payne’s roommate and collaborator, Jim Taylor, faked a backstory while competing on Wheel of Fortune for a possible short film that would use the episode, and instead made enough money to go to film school in New York and help get their first film released.One of the interesting things about Hollywood is that for every “overnight success” that breaks in when they are, like, 23 years old, and remains a star for the rest of their career, there are ten counter-examples of people who have worked multiple temp jobs just to keep themselves afloat before finally getting their big break. For just two similar examples, Jonathan Frakes used to dress up as Captain America to make public appearances, while years before he played a superhero in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Simu Liu would play Spider-Man at children’s birthday parties.After graduating from college and starting to work in the film industry, mostly as an assistant for some directors, Jim Taylor needed to find a place to stay in 1989, and Alexander Payne, who was attending UCLA Film School at the time, had an open bedroom at his apartment in Silverlake. The two had met a few years earlier, and Taylor moved in, and the two became friends. Eventually, the friendship led to the two starting to work together on projects. In 1992, they started work on a screenplay for a film about a young addict who becomes pregnant for the fifth time, and while deciding whether to get an abortion or not, finds herself caught right in the middle of the abortion debate, as various factions try to woo her to their side. It was a dark satire, and not exactly the most commercial of ideas.
MOVIE LEGEND: Alexander Payne’s roommate and collaborator, Jim Taylor, faked a backstory while competing on Wheel of Fortune for a possible short film that would use the episode, and instead made enough money to go to film school in New York and help get their first film released.
One of the interesting things about Hollywood is that for every “overnight success” that breaks in when they are, like, 23 years old, and remains a star for the rest of their career, there are ten counter-examples of people who have worked multiple temp jobs just to keep themselves afloat before finally getting their big break. For just two similar examples, Jonathan Frakes used to dress up as Captain America to make public appearances, while years before he played a superhero in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Simu Liu would play Spider-Man at children’s birthday parties.
After graduating from college and starting to work in the film industry, mostly as an assistant for some directors, Jim Taylor needed to find a place to stay in 1989, and Alexander Payne, who was attending UCLA Film School at the time, had an open bedroom at his apartment in Silverlake. The two had met a few years earlier, and Taylor moved in, and the two became friends. Eventually, the friendship led to the two starting to work together on projects. In 1992, they started work on a screenplay for a film about a young addict who becomes pregnant for the fifth time, and while deciding whether to get an abortion or not, finds herself caught right in the middle of the abortion debate, as various factions try to woo her to their side. It was a dark satire, and not exactly the most commercial of ideas.
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