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	Charlie Kaufman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Charles Stuart Kaufman (born November 1, 1958 to a Jewish family in New York City) is an Academy Award winning screenwriter, identified by Premiere magazine as one of the 100 most powerful people in Hollywood.
		Adaptation featured a "Charlie Kaufman" character that is a heavily fictionalized version of the screenwriter; in real life, however, he does not have an identical twin brother, is married rather than single and hardly experienced that story's fabulist drama.
		Among Charlie Kaufman's favourite writers are Franz Kafka, Samuel Beckett, Stanisław Lem, Philip K. Dick, Flannery O'Connor, Stephen Dixon, Shirley Jackson and Patricia Highsmith.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Charlie_Kaufman (801 words)

	Encyclopedia: Charlie Kaufman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Charles Stuart Kaufman (born November 1, 1958 to a Jewish family in New York City) is an accomplished screenwriter, identified by Premiere magazine as one of the 100 most powerful people in Hollywood.
		Charlie Kaufman was apparently born in late 1958, and raised on the East Coast; he spend his early years in Massapequa, Long Island, and attended junior high and high school in West Hartford, Connecticut, where his family moved in 1972.
		Kaufman made several short films at NYU and acting in student and community theater productions, but after graduating, Kaufman relocated to Minneapolis, where he worked in the circulation department of a newspaper, as well as a local art museum.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Charlie-Kaufman (492 words)

	USATODAY.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Charlie Kaufman has twice been nominated for Academy Awards, for Being John Malkovich (in the original screenplay category); and, with his twin brother Donald Kaufman, for Adaptation (in the adapted screenplay category).
		Charlie Kaufman: Your emotions, as I understand it, are in your brain, so that seemed a natural place to put the story.
		Charlie Kaufman: The first time I was on staff for "Get a Life," I think I was 31 or 32.
	cgi1.usatoday.com /mchat/20040408003/tscript.htm (2693 words)

	Critic Doctor (Herb Kane) - Peter Sobczynski interviews Charlie Kaufman and Michel Gondry
		Near one end, a group of journalist types are gathered with their tape recorders waiting for the men of the hour, writer Charlie Kaufman and director Michel Gondry, to come in to discuss their mind-blowing new film "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind".
		Kaufman: Michel had a friend who is in an artist and he had this idea of sending cards to people saying that you had been erased from someone’s memory.
		Kaufman: I think that disorganization is helpful in that regard for me. If you know too much about where you are going and you can do it too expediently, then you are going to simply go there.
	www.criticdoctor.com /petersobczynski/interview/kaufmangondry.html (1794 words)

	Being Charlie Kaufman - theage.com.au
		Kaufman's Adaptation script, which was completed in 1999, was indeed inspired, he said, by "months of depression".
		Kaufman, who is sapling thin and whose head is crowned with poodlish brown curls, is joined at lunch by Spike Jonze, the boyish 33-year-old who directed both Malkovich and Adaptation.
		Unlike the real Kaufman, who is married with children, Cage's character is a lonely bachelor who, in darkly amusing voiceovers, berates himself for being "fat," "old," "bald" and "repulsive".
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2002/12/21/1040174434530.html (1494 words)

	Meeting Charlie Kaufman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Charlie sat there looking rather stout, but if there was anything I knew about him it was that he was never feeling any portion of stout whatsoever.
		Charlie hadn’t touched his food for a good minute or two and I started to wonder if he were finished or not.
		Charlie told her that he wasn’t finished without making anything such as a glance in her direction.
	www.geocities.com /gogosox0312/meetingkaufman.htm (4063 words)

	The Austin Chronicle Screens: Being Charlie Kaufman
		One is the fictional Charlie, the fat, bald, unsuave, and unchiseled Charlie Kaufman who is hired to adapt a book about orchids into a screenplay and, suffering from severe writer's block, fantastically writes himself into that screenplay.
		The other Charlie Kaufman, the one of this mortal plane, was also hired to adapt a book about orchids into a screenplay and, suffering from severe writer's block, fantastically wrote himself into that screenplay.
		Kaufman, who is neither fat nor bald, smiles a little nervously at some of the questions, does not make much eye contact, and often looks to his friend and director, Spike Jonze, for backup, possibly protection.
	www.austinchronicle.com /issues/dispatch/2002-12-20/screens_feature.html (1172 words)

	Eye - Being Charlie Kaufman - 12.05.02
		Charlie Kaufman -- the real screenwriter of Adaptation, who based the film on his own failure to write an adaptation of Susan Orlean's book The Orchid Thief -- is also present today and doesn't seem like so much of a loser.
		Charlie fares a little better during his lunch with Valerie (Tilda Swinton), the executive who assigns him the task of writing a screen adaptation of The Orchid Thief, Susan Orlean's bestseller on the unscrupulous activities of flower expert John Laroche.
		Orlean's obsession with Laroche is mirrored by Kaufman's obsession with Orlean, and even though the overall tone of the film is acerbic, Adaptation is very poignant in its portrayal of both writers' struggle to engage with the world and develop passions of their own.
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_12.05.02/film/adaptation.html (1534 words)

	Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Yet Kaufman likes to play with elements of the fantastic as much as any sci-fi writer, and in his next film, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, he works from a premise that is quite familiar to sci-fi fans: protagonists who have had their memories erased.
		Kaufman remembers writing the script as a great deal of "dogged work." He encountered two major logic problems as he tried to work out the story.
		Kaufman, a onetime actor and playwright, had originally conceived the memory-erasing scenes so that Clementine, who is being erased, would being to behave like an automaton or a "husk" of reality.
	www.admiringkatewinslet.com /ScriptMarch04.htm (2754 words)

	Charlie Kaufman,
		Charlie Kaufman: To be honest my role in both movies I did with Spike Jonze and the two I did with Michel were very different from that.
		Charlie Kaufman: That was really the whole point of the movie, to take a number of stories that had truth, fictionalise them, and crucially not say what’s what.
		Charlie Kaufman: yeah, I resist it because I have no idea of how to proceed and so I do a lot of stalling, but I think there’s a value to that too because it gives you time to mull things over and come up with something that is a lot more interesting.
	www.futuremovies.co.uk /filmmaking.asp?ID=76 (1918 words)

	village voice > film > Adaptation; Blackboards; Massoud, the Afghan by J. Hoberman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Nothing may be taken lightly: Charlie's identity crisis when ordered off the set of Being John Malkovich triggers a cosmic flashback 4 billion years to the origin of life on earth, and then forward, through the screenwriter's birth, to his lunch with a silky studio executive (Tilda Swinton).
		Charlie's agony before the typewriter is contrasted with what he imagines to be the poised facility with which Susan Orlean (hilariously played by Meryl Streep) composed her book.
		At this point, Kaufman has most of his narrative ducks in the water—the trick is bringing them into the same pond.
	www.villagevoice.com /issues/0249/hoberman.php (1272 words)

	Salon Arts & Entertainment \| Being Charlie Kaufman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Right before Being John Malkovich" writer Charlie Kaufman phoned me for this interview last week, a telemarketer with a stuck speed dial bombarded me with repeated calls about a free trip to the Bahamas.
		Kaufman prizes his creative partnership with director Spike Jonze, yet I found Jonze's visual monotony and deadpan tone increasingly numbing.
		I wondered whether Kaufman worried that having Lotte surround herself with animals might seem too whimsical -- or, given her hunger for a child, too heavy-handed.
	archive.salon.com /ent/col/srag/1999/11/11/kaufman (958 words)

	SPLICEDwire \| Charlie Kaufman interview for "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" (2004)
		After comically laying bare his own neuroses in "Adaptation," Charlie Kaufman became something virtually unheard of in Hollywood -- a celebrity screenwriter -- and the prospect of being famous made him a little nervous at the time.
		But Kaufman is in good spirits as he buckles down for this brief, second-to-last interview before he gets to go home.
		Trapped in a dream state, the character conspires with a lucid memory of the girl (Kate Winslet) to hide her in various corners of his mind in the hopes that when he wakes up some residual thoughts of their relationship -- tumultuous as it was -- will remain.
	www.splicedonline.com /04features/ckaufman.html (949 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Film \| Inside screenwriter Kaufman's Mind
		Screenwriter Charlie Kaufman landed back-to-back Oscar nominations for his cult movies Being John Malkovich and Adaptation, leaving both critics and audiences eager to see what he would come up with next.
		Kaufman has higher hopes for his next project, a horror movie that will reunite him with Malkovich and Adaptation director Spike Jonze.
		In person, Kaufman does not resemble the media-shy, introverted loner he is often described as.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/film/3664683.stm (740 words)

	Charlie Kaufman: A true original - MORE MOVIE NEWS AND FEATURES - MSNBC.com
		Gondry brought his own dreamy imagery to the film, creating scenes of a beach house collapsing around the lovers as a memory is destroyed and a bookstore scene in which everything in sight slowly disappears.
		Kaufman is one of the few Hollywood screenwriters who has the power to influence the film’s production.
		Kaufman is writing another script for Jonze, but after that he hopes to take his own turn in the director’s chair.
	msnbc.msn.com /id/4548741 (1202 words)

	LA Weekly: Film: Inside 'Charlie Kaufman' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Charlie loves Orlean's book, but, flummoxed by its lack of structure, he slips into a funk, a condition to which he's no stranger.
		A joyless, balding bag of nerves, Charlie is also chronically timid and insecure — in an uproarious flashback to the set of Being John Malkovich, Cage's Charlie creeps around, unnoticed by cast or crew — and given to neurotic stream-of-consciousness rants that reduce all listeners to stupefied silence.
		Charlie thrives nowhere, but unlike Woody Allen, whose schlubs have increasingly become a vanity project — they always come fortified with successful careers and babes panting for them — Kaufman takes his self-exposure right down to the bone, which could be tedious if he took himself more seriously.
	www.laweekly.com /ink/03/03/film-taylor.php (1440 words)

	Morphizm.com -- Being Charlie Kaufman: Adaptation
		Charlie's version has Susan withdrawing from her literary friends and even her husband back in Manhattan, moved increasingly by her friendship with John to reconsider her own priorities, to imagine herself reflected in him.
		At one point Charlie, grasping for a "first scene," reels his mind back to the beginning of time, and the screen fills with time-lapsey digital-whoosh magic -- watery swirls, crawling fishies, lumbering dinosaurs, rising monkeys, and all varieties of flowers and plants.
		But then, Charlie comes to appreciate his brother's difference (that he once took to be mere uninspired sameness), even admire his generosity of spirit and hulking grace.
	www.morphizm.com /recommends/film/adaptation_film.html (1502 words)

	U-WIRE.com/INTERVIEW: Being Charlie Kaufman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Kaufman, in person, looks exactly what you'd expect of a writer who likes to explore themes of unconfidence, failure and regret: Small, pale, with scraggly facial hair and a mop of reddish curls.
		Charlie Kaufman: I think you can be as outlandish as you want, or surreal as you want, as long as the characters are based in something real.
		If I didn't know that Kaufman is abhors the idea of morality creeping into his scripts, I would swear that he is trying to make a point about the sanctity of memories as the key definition of who we are.
	www.uwire.com /content/topae040604002.html (1191 words)

	Adaptation. (2002) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Trivia: Donald Kaufman was nominated for a Golden Globe with Charlie Kaufman, despite being a fictional character.
		This self-portrait and self-indulgence of the screenwriter Charlie Kaufman supplies a unique format, a film about screenwriting--while numerous films about film directors are out there, this might be the first and only film about a screenwriter.
		Taking persons who exist in the real world, including Kaufman himself as a protagonist, into a fictitious setting, Kaufman blurs the line between fiction and reality; at the same time, it may be a token of friendships from him to these persons.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0268126 (486 words)

	Susan Orlean - Adaptation/ Charlie Kaufman and Spike Jonze Interview
		Charlie Kaufman: I guess it didn't seem to matter since no one knows me, since I'm not a celebrity, what the specific self-consciousness was.
		Kaufman: What I need to do when I'm writing something is figure out what it is I'm thinking about and where my energy is. And (this time) my energy was in the thought that I couldn't do it.
		Kaufman: The other person who worked there at the time was Valerie Thomas, who is played by Tilda Swinton in the movie.
	www.chasingthefrog.com /reelfaces/adaptation_intview4.php (1479 words)

	:: rogerebert.com :: People :: Charlie Kaufman & Spike Jonze: Twin pleasures (xhtml) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Charlie Kaufman came to the same conclusion about the difficulty of writing a screenplay based on The Orchid Thief.
		There is a crisis in the movie when Donald sells his screenplay for big bucks and Charlie in desperation takes a McKee workshop and is given frank, brutal and profane advice by the great man himself, who pointedly observes that "Casablanca" is the greatest screenplay ever written.
		Other scenes, where Nicolas Cage, as Kaufman, stalks Orlean and develops a crush on her, are not in the book, because when the book was written Kaufman and his screenplay were not in the picture.
	rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20021217/PEOPLE/212010304/1023 (1419 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Film \| Features \| Being Charlie Kaufman
		Kaufman has been hired to adapt New Yorker magazine writer Susan Orlean's book The Orchid Thief, about a Florida man named John Laroche whose obsession with rare and beautiful orchids seems to embody a rare gift for the living of life - a gift Orlean (and Kaufman) lacks.
		It is difficult to transmit on paper a sense of how rich and rewarding, how indefatigably cinematic, and yet how accessible and fresh Kaufman and Jonze have made this tale of disconsolate loners and their many frustrations.
		Streep is at her most relaxed and likable as the angst-riden Orlean, and Chris Cooper, sporting a redneck accent and a toothless maw, will now, I predict, finally receive the widespread acclaim he has deserved for a decade or more.
	film.guardian.co.uk /features/featurepages/0,4120,857289,00.html (798 words)

	Adaptation [2002] Shaking Through.net: Movies: Review
		Does Charlie Kaufman embrace his unique perspective on life, the universe and everything, or does he attempt to stifle his more indulgent impulses in favor of creating a screenplay that is, as he puts it, just about flowers?
		Kaufman's adaptation is a bust, but in his desperate attempt to make up for his inability to communicate the ideas of someone other than himself the film triumphs.
		Jonze adroitly jumps between the story of Kaufman struggling to adapt Orlean's book (all the while watching brother Donald create a derivative thriller screenplay that becomes a hot property around town) and the budding relationship between Orlean and her orchid thief subject.
	www.shakingthrough.net /movies/reviews/2003/adaptation_2003.html (841 words)

	USATODAY.com - Kaufman's 'Eternal Sunshine' born of undying creativity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Winslet was drawn to Kaufman's eccentric characters and one-of-a-kind plots.
		Kaufman may be offbeat and eccentric, but he's not interested in being clever without reason.
		Kaufman is not comfortable with the notion that he's the "it" writer in Hollywood these days.
	www.usatoday.com /life/movies/news/2004-03-16-kaufman_x.htm (792 words)

	The truth about Charlie Kaufman / 'Malkovich' writer puts himself -- warts and all -- into the story in 'Adaptation' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Charlie Kaufman turned Susan Orlean's 1998 nonfiction book about flowers, "The Orchid Thief," into a movie about Charlie Kaufman.
		As Charlie Kaufman, Cage dismisses his instinct to insert himself in his script as unconscionably self-indulgent.
		Kaufman knows he might be accused of the same thing.
	sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2002/12/15/PK50475.DTL (939 words)

	An Interview with Gondry & Kaufman
		Director Michel Gondry and screenwriter Charlie Kaufman have been bounding around the country for press and presenting the movie on campuses and other venues with QandAs.
		The Kaufman twist is the invention of a technology that erases selected memories from the lobes of the brain.
		Charlie had found so many strong ways to describe it that I could just not reproduce.
	www.moviecitynews.com /Interviews/Gondry_kaufman.html (2638 words)

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