Entries from October 2009

Saturday, October 3rd, 2009

Player

A prominent entertainment “industry” figure is blackmailed by a man with a film “treatment” that describes the prominent entertainment “industry” figure’s misdeeds.
Robert Joel Halderman’s “Letterman”?
Well, I had in mind Robert Altman’s 1992 film The Player, based on the book by Michael Tolkin (who also wrote the screenplay).
Halderman’s derivative plot (and considerably less serious misdeeds than in [...]