Encyclopédie :: encyclopedia : Jean-Jacques Goldman(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Il a d'abord chanté dans le groupe Red Mountain Gospellers en chorale puis avec The Phalanster et enfin avec Taï Phong (Grand Vent en vietnamien) avant de débuter sa carrière solo, qu'il a mise entre parenthèses quelques années pour fonder un trio avec le gallois Michael Jones et l'américaine Carole Fredericks.
Jean-Jacques Goldman a aussi écrit des chansons (sous son nom de scène ou sous des pseudonymes (Sweet Memories,Sam Brewski...) pour d'autres interprètes, comme Céline Dion, Patricia Kaas ou Johnny Hallyday, Garou, Khaled, Lorie, Marc Lavoine, Florent Pagny...
Son demi-frère Pierre Goldman était un militant d'extrême gauche et fut assassiné en 1979.
Bo Goldman Biography :: Hollywood.com(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Goldman kept up his ties with theater and TV with several seasons of work for PBS, producing several plays for "Theater in America".
Goldman was only paid $8000 for his collaboration with Lawrence Hauben, but his resulting acclaim and Oscar win jumpstarted his writing career.
Goldman again garnered popular acclaim, if a split verdict from critics, with his sentimental but splashy showcase for Al Pacino, "Scent of a Woman" (1992), and the two reteamed for the elaborate political machinations of "City Hall" (1996).
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Goldman's Melvin and Howard and Cuckoo’s Nest screenplays were also honored with Writer’s Guild Awards, and Cuckoo's Nest was awarded a Golden Globe.
Earlier this year, the Writers Guild of America honored Goldman with the coveted Screen Laurel Award, the guild’s highest award for screenwriting given in recognition of a writer’s body of work.
Goldman is currently working with director Tony Goldwyn developing a film for Universal Pictures entitled Imagining Nathan.
Goldman's luck began to change when he wrote his first screenplay, Shoot the Moon.
In 1981, Shoot the Moon was finally produced, but despite its success, Goldman spent much of the decade's remainder working as an uncredited script doctor on such films as The Flamingo Kid and Swing Shift (both 1984).
Goldman's next solo screenplay credit -- and Oscar nomination -- came with his script for the highly praised Scent of a Woman (1992).
Goldman also said that he was much more nervous than you were about the lack of any obvious story.
And Bo had some stuff in the script that Paul felt he couldn't do, because he thought it was too foolish, such as sniffing his wife's panties when she was gone or carrying his clothes bag on his back when he entered the strip joint she was working.
When BoGoldman came on, the deal the studio and the producers were trying to work out with me didn't work out, so I wasn't directly involved in the writing of Bo's script.
NICK RODDICK talks to two-time Academy Award-winning screenwriter BoGoldman about how he reteamed with director Martin Brest on Meet Joe Black, starring Brad Pitt and inspired by the 1934 classic, Death Takes a Holiday.
A few years back, veteran screenwriter BoGoldman was pitching a script idea.
Goldman has been around Hollywood for almost three decades, picking up two Oscars - the first for One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest in 1975, the other for Melvin and Howard five years later - along the way.
MovieMaker Magazine | Issue #46 | Oscar-Winning Screenwriters on Screenwriting(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
William Goldman (WG): Let's face t, movies are very hard to write.
BoGoldman (BG): Milos [Forman] gave me what's probably the best and most useful note about screenwriting I've ever gotten.
This is outside life." What that means is that you can have funny and quirky and strange and screwball, but it's got to be inside life and take place within the boundaries of human experience.
The writer came on strong with "One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest" (1975), when he was hired by director Milos Forman to write the screenplay--the film won a number of Oscars, including one for BoGoldman's screenplay.
He subsequently worked on a number of television shows while attempting to stage another musical, enduring years of career disappointments.
Goldman is consider one of Hollywood's best character screenwriters.
After never finding the time or resources to produce the film over the course of many years he was eventually persuaded by his son, Michael, to turn-over the project to him, not least because the elder Douglas was then becoming too old to play the part.
Quickly assembling the behind-the-scenes personnel around the BoGoldman and Lawrence Hauben script and under the direction of Milos Forman, producers Michael Douglas and Saul Zaentz originally approached James Caan with the starring role.
After refusing the part it was offered to Jack Nicholson who accepted and was rumored to have prepared for it by admitting himself as a patient into a mental hospital.
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Forman's agent suggested that BoGoldman, a novice screenwriter and librettist he also represented, take a stab at it.
While Forman and Goldman were pounding out the screenplay, Douglas and Zaentz were running into the same series of slammed studio doors Kirk Douglas had encountered years earlier.
According to Goldman, "The interviewer asked Kesey if he went down to the set and Kesey answered, "Does a mother preside over her own abortion?'" Goldman believes Kesey's beef was mainly author's pride and anger that his own script wasn't used.
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During one of the multitude of financial crises endured by the Dummars, Melvin discovers that the tramp he picked up was none other than billionaire Howard Hughes -- and when Hughes dies, Melvin inherits $150 million.
The movie's wide acclaim included Oscars for Steenburgen and Goldman's script and New York Film Critics Awards in almost all major categories, including Best Picture and awards for Demme, Goldman, Steenburgen, and Robards.
Demme would gain even greater attention in the 1990s as the director of The Silence of the Lambs (1991) and Philadelphia (1993).
Albert Finney plays a bored husband who takes up with another woman, and Diane Keaton portrays his disaffected wife, who copes-and sometimes fails to cope-with the resulting mess.
BoGoldman's knowing script and Alan Parker's cunningly detailed direction are unsparing, as are the performances of Finney, Keaton, and Dana Hill as their oldest daughter.
One of the most beautiful houses in modern movies (the film was shot in Marin County, California) is the backdrop to true domestic misery.
Cast and Crew offers filmographies for director Milos Forman, producers Saul Zaentz and Michael Douglas, screenwriters Lawrence Hauben and BoGoldman, and actors Jack Nicholson and Louise Fletcher.
This 47-minute and 25-second program consists of the usual mix of movie snippets, images from the set and other archival materials, and interviews.
In the latter category, we hear from director Milos Forman, producers Michael Douglas and Saul Zaentz, original rights owner Kirk Douglas, screenwriter BoGoldman, assistant director Irby Smith, actors Louise Fletcher, Danny DeVito, Christopher Lloyd, Vincent Schiavelli, actor/consultant Dr. Dean Brooks, and actor/impromptu casting agent Mel Lambert.
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Born in New York on September 10, 1932, Goldman...
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