An account of the writing of the "whatever" movie Up Close and Personal. Reviews have called this a caustic tale, but actually it’s far from – there is some eccentric behaviour but it’s clear people are trying to make a decent movie and they’re being smart about it. Would the Jessica Savtich story have made a decent movie anyway? There is almost always a good reason for execs to do what they do and Dunne is fair on reporting it.
I’m not sold on Dunne’s ability as a screenwriter but he does a great non fiction book. It’s also clear that scriptwriting is a pretty great cushy gig – many of the problems Dunne writes about are along the lines of “it was hard for us to concentrate on getting the script done so we flew to Hawaii to work at a hotel there”. Nice work if you can get it!
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