When salaries skyrocket, budgets skyrocket, and then rigor mortis sets in: moviemakers turn out formulaic junk in an effort to hedge their bets.
Tobias Wolff is a hell of a writer, but you knew that already. His first memoir, 'This Boy's Life,' was a Huck Finn story set in the Eisenhower era - a story so rich and wounding that not even Hollywood could make a bad movie out of it.
Sharon Stone has made a fortune from her movies, so who says you can't get something for nothing?
Tim Burton's 'Sleepy Hollow' has got to be the most gorgeous, sumptuous, painterly movie ever made about multiple decapitations.
In the annals of the rich and miserable, Christina Onassis stands out, if only because she was so rich and so miserable.
Scott Bradfield writes weird, oblique, unsettling stuff.
