The film was directed by Arthur Hiller, who reported to the DGA that producer Joe Eszterhas had interfered with his creative control, and successfully removed his own name from the film, so " Alan Smithee " was credited instead.

The film's gratuitous nudity, simulated sex, and $ 2 million screenplay ( written by Joe Eszterhas, who had worked with director Paul Verhoeven before ) did not lend itself to what might have been a provocative film.

McKee has been criticized by Joe Eszterhas, for being someone who teaches screenwriting without ever having a script of his made into a film, though McKee is credited as writer of the 1994 TV movie Abraham.

Joe Eszterhas ( Esterhazy ) wrote Basic Instinct and became the highest-paid writer in Hollywood history.

The 1998 film Burn Hollywood Burn, also written by Eszterhas, contains a reference to Showgirls as a " terrible " film.

The film was the winner of a then-record seven 1995 Golden Raspberry Awards ( from a record thirteen nominations, a record that still stands ) including Worst Picture, Worst Actress ( Elizabeth Berkley ), Worst Director ( Paul Verhoeven ), Worst Screenplay ( Joe Eszterhas ), Worst New Star ( Elizabeth Berkley ), Worst Screen Couple (" any combination of two people ( or two body parts )") and Worst Original Song ( David A. Stewart and Terry Hall for " Walk Into the Wind ").

The film was written ( and produced, though he was not credited for it ) by Joe Eszterhas.

Arthur Hiller, the film's real director, objected to the way Eszterhas recut the film, and as a result, had his name removed.

Basic Instinct is a 1992 American erotic thriller film directed by Paul Verhoeven and written by Joe Eszterhas, and starring Michael Douglas and Sharon Stone.

This film marks the second collaboration between director Costa-Gavras and screenwriter Joe Eszterhas after 1988's Betrayed.

Screenwriter Joe Eszterhas was unhappy to share the screenwriting credit with the film's star Sylvester Stallone, as he felt that Stallone's input had been minor, while Stallone claimed to have basically rewritten the whole script.

Originally written by Scott Richardson, the screenplay was rewritten by Basic Instinct writer Joe Eszterhas because Lorimar Productions felt that Richardson was a " baby writer " and not experienced enough to take on the responsibility of a starring vehicle for a rock icon of Dylan's stature.

In the 1970s, the magazine also helped launch the careers of many prominent authors, including Cameron Crowe, Lester Bangs, Joe Klein, Joe Eszterhas, Patti Smith and P. J. O ' Rourke.

The movie was written by Joe Eszterhas and directed by Costa-Gavras.

It is loosely based on the real life case of John Demjanjuk and, as well, on Joe Eszterhas ' own life, since he later discovered that his father was a former Nazi collaborator in Hungary.

Category: Screenplays by Joe Eszterhas

Category: Screenplays by Joe Eszterhas

Category: Screenplays by Joe Eszterhas

It is a courtroom thriller, written by Joe Eszterhas, and directed by Richard Marquand.

Category: Screenplays by Joe Eszterhas

All three reviewers commented on the plot similarities between Music Box and Betrayed, the 1988 collaboration between writer Joe Eszterhas and director Costa-Gavras, with the replacement of white supremacists with war criminals and the same predictable formula.

* 1944 – Joe Eszterhas, Hungarian-born American producer and screenwriter

But in his autobiography Hollywood Animal, Eszterhas claims that Hiller still sat in the editing room with him to make certain suggestions.

Joe Eszterhas repeatedly describes his friend, Evans, as " the devil " in his book, Hollywood Animal, and goes on to say that " all lies ever told anywhere about Robert Evans are true.

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those who wrote them knew people and what made people tick.

I don't even remember who wrote it but it was one of those 15th or 16th century poets.

Others who wrote of low characters and low life included Thomas Bangs Thorpe, creator of the Big Bear Of Arkansas and Tom Owen, the Bee-Hunter ; ;

so Cyrus Adler became interested in her friend Racie Friedenwald, and Joe Jastrow -- the only young man who when he wrote had the temerity to address her as Henrietta, and signed himself Joe -- fell in love with pretty sister Rachel.

and in her forthright way, Henrietta, who in her story of Sara had indicated her own unwillingness `` to think of men as the privileged '' and `` women as submissive and yielding '', felt obliged to defend vigorously any statement of hers to which Morris Jastrow took the slightest exception -- he objected to her stand on the Corbin affair, as well as on the radical reforms of Dr. Wise of Hebrew Union College -- until once, in sheer desperation, he wrote that he had given up hope they would ever agree on anything.

The day passed eventfully enough, with a constant stream of visitors, some stopping only to say hello, others getting into serious conversations, such as one Andre Fuchs, a free-lance journalist from Strasbourg who wrote an article for the Nouvelle Alsatian in highly sympathetic terms.

No one, he wrote, took any corn of Greville's, for his bailiff of husbandry `` swore a greate oathe thatt who soe came to put hys hande into hys sackes for anye corne shuld leave hys hande behynde hym ''.

He said he was a friend of Heywood Broun who had run a free employment bureau for several months during the depression, but the generous Broun to whom I wrote did not know his name and I somehow conceived the morbid notion that the man in question was prowling round the house.

Then there was Mark Howe and there was Henry Dwight Sedgwick, an accomplished man of letters who wrote in the spirit of Montaigne and produced in the end a formidable body of work.

Mr. Burlingham, -- `` C.C.B. '' -- wrote to me once about an old friend of mine, S. K. Ratcliffe, whom I had first met in London in 1914 and who also came out for a week-end in Weston.

With a pardonable irony Shelley wrote to the father who had publicly disowned his daughter:

But in order to keep Letch in the public eye and out of trouble, I wrote in a part especially for him -- that of a dashing ruffian who `` sees the light '' and is saved by the inspiring example of Mother Cabrini.

Thus in Mary wrote an account of the trip first strong stress on Mary marks Mary as the first in a series of people who wrote accounts of the trip, strong stress on wrote marks the writing as the first of a series of actions of Mary's concerned with an account of her trip ( about which she may later have made speeches, for example ), and strong stress on trip makes the trip the first of a series of subjects about which Mary wrote accounts.

Under the 1939 Code this item was permitted to survive a tax-free reorganization in the Stanton Brewery case, but only over the dissent of Judge Learned Hand, who wrote the majority opinion in the Sansome case, a leading case requiring carryover of earnings and profits in a non-taxable reorganization.

In lieu of the amanuensis to the blind or illiterate bard, one may conceive of a man who heard a vast store of oral poetry recited, and became intimately familiar with the established aids to poetizing, and himself wrote his own compositions or his edition of the compositions of the past.

On December 9, 1862, Sergeant Edwin H. Fay, an unusual Louisianan who held A.B. and M.A. degrees from Harvard University and who before the war was headmaster of a private school for boys in Louisiana, wrote his wife: `` I saw Pemberton and he is the most insignificant puke I ever saw.

A Massachusetts soldier, who seems to have been a Civil War version of Bill Mauldin, wrote: `` the officers consider themselves as made of a different material from the low fellows in the ranks.

If there had been, he would have found a loophole, because Arnold is one golfer who knows the code as thoroughly as the man who wrote the book.

I make this observation about the lady, Miss Judy Garland, because she brought up the subject herself in telling a story about a British female reporter who flattered her terribly in London recently and then wrote in the paper the next day:

Averroes, Avicenna and Alpharabius, who wrote on Aristotle in great depth, also influenced Thomas Aquinas and other Western Christian scholastic philosophers.