He wrote some of the most memorable screenplays of the last half of the 20th Century and at least two of the best of the early 21st Century.Mister Tee wrote:He wrote the kind of down-the-middle, intelligently moving dramas that most studios wouldn't think of making today. Not an experimenter, but a fine practitioner of pure craft -- like a less glib William Goldman. The Hellmann/Julia cafe encounter, Pookie Adams' desperate phone call, Trixie Delight's hilltop monologue -- they're all on him, and that rates a big salute.
My top ten:
Gambit (1966)
The Sterile Cuckoo (1969)
The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds (1972)
Paper Moon (1974)
Julia (1977)
Ordinary People (1980)
Dominick and Eugene (1988)
White Palace (1990)
Unfaithful (2002)
Spider-Man 2 (2004)