Tony Kushner

...of him, and how the myth befits the man. In the works: Steven Spielberg is still planning a movie about Lincoln's presidency, written by Tony Kushner ("Angels in America") and adapted from the book "Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of...

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...extends beyond his own specialty. Kushner calls Spielberg, whose last screenplay credit was "Artificial Intelligence: AI" (2001), "a great dramaturge," lauding both his script savvy and forthrightness. "He'll say if he doesn't understand...

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...and nominees. Bart credits some of his major artistic influences who shaped his life and visions to be most notably Clive Barker, Tony Kushner, Dante Aligheri, Terrence McNally, William Shakespeare, Martin Scorsese, Stephen King, Rembrandt,...

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...unable to get a polished script due to the writers' strike. But he does have a solid screenplay for Lincoln from Angels in America playwright (and Munich scribe) Tony Kushner. First up, though, is Tintin, the opening installment in a...

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...astonishingly successful "Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln" (which director Steven Spielberg and writer Tony Kushner are adapting into a feature film), said Lincoln's "reputation has always been pretty solid, despite all...

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...on the official website of CAMERA, Andrea Levin claims that the film (a collaboration of director Steven Spielberg and playwright-screenwriter Tony Kushner) promotes "its thesis of Israeli culpability" and that "Israel's action battling its...

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...did not come easy, even though the two had worked on the 2005 movie "Munich. " "I turned Steven down twice," Kushner says, sitting at his table. "I'd read Gary Wills' 'Lincoln at Gettysburg. ' And I had always turned to the second...

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...at it. " Mr. Kushner pointed to himself as a case in point, since he now divides his time between New York and Hollywood, working on a screenplay about Abraham Lincoln for Steven Spielberg, and another about Woody Guthrie. The screenplay...

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..."The Uniter: The Genius of Abraham Lincoln" -- has a strong script by "Angels in America" playwright Tony Kushner (who rewrote "Munich" for Spielberg). Spielberg also has Liam Neeson --who played Oskar Schindler -- ready to play Lincoln.

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