Not exact matches
A fast - talking
producer of a popular tabloid new program, Uncle Earl offers Owen a job and the
pair soon set out to get the scoop on Hayden Field - the hottest
young star around.
The cover story, «Grade B — But Choice,» is devoted to an obscure 1934 musical called «
Young and Beautiful,» featuring «budding starlets, grade - A character actors, grade - B musical numbers, a
pair of vaudevillians, a look behind the scenes of Hollywood, bogus appearances by Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton and a script by Dore Schary» [later famous as a
producer of films such as «Crossfire,» «Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House,» «They Live By Night» and «The Red Badge of Courage»].
After three years of extensive research the
pair have managed to speak with almost every living major contributor to the film, among them directors John Hancock and Jeannot Szwarc, screenwriters Dorothy Tristan and Carl Gottlieb, Production Designer / Associate
Producer Joe Alves, Universal Studios former chairman Sidney Sheinberg and cast members Lorraine Gary, Jeffrey Kramer, Joseph Mascolo and all (17) of the
young actors who played what the authors collectively call «the Amity Kids!»
DVD special features are ample, anchored by a feature - length audio commentary track with director Alvart and
producer Jeremy Bolt, in which the
pair discuss Alvart's late - in - the - game, pre-production idea of depicting the effects of years of hyper - sleep via sloughing skin, as well as the special challenges involved for Foster in crafting a performance out of reacting to Quaid's disembodied voice, since more than half of his material was prerecorded, before the
younger actor's scenes.