Released on: 2006
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George Clooney Producing Wall Street Bailout Film, Possibly to Direct
In December 2009 the Washington Post [1] published an article called The $700 Billion Man, about Neel Kashkari (on the left, above) a Treasury Department official who was appointed as the federal bailout chief by Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, only to retreat from Washington DC to the isolation of a small northern California town seven months later.Now the article has been optioned, and George Clooney and Grant Heslov are producing a film based on it, with George Clooney eying it as a directorial project.Zach Helm (Stranger Than Fiction) has been hired to write a script based on the article, and the title of his breakout script certainly applies to parts of this story. As Laura Blumenfeld's Washington Post article explains, after quitting his job in Washington, Neel Kashkari made a list of four things he wanted to do: "1. build shed; 2. chop wood; 3. lose 20 pounds; 4. help with Hank's book."'Hank' is the Treasury Secretary,»
- Russ Fischer
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R.I.P. Arthur Marx
Screen and TV writer, author and playwright Arthur Marx, the son of legendary comedian Groucho Marx, died this week at his home in Los Angeles of natural causes. He was 89. Marx had a prolific career that spanned more than 60 years. Born in New York in 1921, he spent some of his early years on the road with his father and uncles, Harpo, Chico, and Zeppo, during the Marx Brothers' tours of Vaudeville. By the early 1930s, with the Marx Brothers established as film stars, the family moved to Los Angeles. Following a stint in the Coast Guard during World War II where he served in the Philippines, Marx began his Hollywood career working at MGM as a reader. Eventually, he became a screenwriter, working on the popular Pete Smith shorts and several films in the Blondie series, including Blondie In The Dough.While continuing to write for film and TV,»
- NIKKI FINKE
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