A story about... I play a guy who is with... Patricia Arquette is my wife and we're having troubles. It's a raw relationship. And she ends up dead and they think I did it. I don't think I did. |
defied cynicism and entered politics. |
I love to watch my kids stand under the tree and munch on (fruit). It's a constant pleasure to see them get past the bumps and spots on the fruit to realize it's as good as -- or better than -- store-bought. |
I'm a playwright and a novelist and a journalist. It's a weird Salinger-Mailer-Miller combination. When the series starts, he--like a lot of liberal New Yorkers--are starting to realize something is very wrong in the gay community. My investigation into what becomes called AIDS is going to be a big part of the show. |
ID4 felt like so completely the best disaster movie to be in - so brilliant and unusual. The whole premise of doing a flood or lava... I just go the other way. |
My father grew up in Brooklyn, but he fell in love with the Adirondacks when he went there for summer camp. So after medical school in Rochester, New York, he drove south until he found a city in which to practice - Hornell, in New York State's southern tier. |
Oddly, I've been brought into a conflict the town is facing now. A pharmacy chain is threatening to demolish four historic houses near the one I grew up in to build a drive-thru superstore. The money they're offering is beyond anyone's expectations, yet the town could cannibalize its heritage and never quite recover. |
Oh, great. This is going to be like shooting baskets with Magic Johnson watching. [On watching Independence Day with President Clinton] |
Rural towns aren't always idyllic. It's easy to feel trapped and be aware of social hypocrisy. |
The Zero Effect. |
There was also an undercurrent of desperation about the town's sagging image. They put up booster signs with slogans like "It's Swell in Hornell." As teenagers we mocked it. Yet it made me sensitive to the town's identity crisis: How does an underdog pull itself up? |
There was an idea of accepting everyone; there was no sense of exclusion. |
With While You Were Sleeping, it was so much fun and such a Cinderella story, that I didn't want to do another romantic comedy. I wanted to do the opposite. |