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	Writer Don Roos Makes The Leap From Hollywood To Indies with "The Opposite of Sex"
		Don Roos has written four produced screenplays, beginning with "Love Field," and then three others for the Hollywood beast, "Single White Female," "Boys on the Side," and "Diabolique" (the remake) -- all of which have leant him a certain amount of cache and steady work.
		But Roos, like so many today, had the urge to direct, so he took the risk, refusing to give up his next project unless he was attached.
		Roos: None of the stuff that we cut was wrong, in the sense, that the mood or it was from a different movie, they were all good scenes.
	www.indiewire.com /people/int_Roos_Don_980528.html (2205 words)

	Don Wixom, Real Estate Agent, Broker/Owner of RE/MAX Advantage, Nampa, Idaho - Don Wixom, Nampa Idaho Real Estate Agent ...
		Don works with a team approach, knowing that his time is valuable to and appreciated by his customers and clients.
		Don is the past President and Board member of the Nampa Association of Realtors.
		Don is also a member of the Honor Society for the Idaho Association of Realtors and a member of the National Association of Realtors.
	www.sellidaho.com /about/don-wixom/don-wixom-real-estate-agent-broker/owner-of-re/max-advantage-nampa-idaho.html (1547 words)

	Don Roos @ Filmbug
		Roos began his career as a television writer.
		His first produced screenplay, Love Field, was directed by Jonathan Kaplan and earned its star, Michelle Pfeiffer, an Academy Award nomination for her role of a Dallas housewife determined to attend the funeral of John F. Kennedy.
		Next, Roos adapted a contemporary thriller novel by John Lutz for Single White Female directed by Barbet Schroeder and staffing Bridget Fonda and Jennifer Jason Leigh.
	www.filmbug.com /db/2933 (323 words)

	Movies - Don Roos
		Roos supported himself by working as a word processor, and to this day jokes that he has that as a fall-back plan.
		Roos' work as the writer of the film Single White Female has earned him a permanent space in Hollywood movie trivia, since that title has entered the lexicon in reference to the film's psychotic lead character who begins to take on her roommate's identity.
		Roos' is well-known for his work writing strong and engaging female characters, a skill that has also been useful in his film direction, leading to Independent Spirit Award nominations for actors Lisa Kudrow, Christina Ricci, and most recently, Maggie Gyllenhall.
	listing-index.ebay.com /movies/Don_Roos.html (371 words)

	Cincinnati CityBeat : 07/27/2005 : Humor and Pathos
		Roos uses irony, wittily acerbic repartee and cinematic distancing techniques to protect his humane, optimistic outlook on life from appearing too sentimental.
		But it's a genuinely happy film, because Roos is happy living in L.A. "For me, Los Angeles is the greatest city in the world, and I wanted to do a story about the fertility that I have personally found to be creative and to be gay," he says.
		Roos believes this is the reason it's an art-house film rather than a mainstream release -- Hollywood is scared of his approach.
	www.citybeat.com /2005-07-27/film2.shtml (1137 words)

	Advocate, The: Men with bounce - Don Roos, actor, interview - Interview
		Openly gay screenwriter-director Don Roos follows his gay-themed hit, The Opposite of Sex, with the heteromance Bounce, starring the Academy Award--winning "are they or aren't they" twosome Ben Affleck and Gwyneth Paltrow.
		Roos and Galecki met over breakfast at Los Angeles's French-funky Chateau Marmont to discuss their new film, and while Galecki is the actor, the effusive Roos grabbed center stage.
		Roos: Before Opposite I had gay characters in my films, and the heroines were women who sound like me. So with Bounce I just wrote a script full of straight people, except Johnny's character kind of came in gay.
	findarticles.com /cf_dls/m1589/2000_Nov_21/67185655/p1/article.jhtml (865 words)

	Don Roos - Biography - Moviefone
		A screenwriter turned director, Don Roos made his celebrated directorial debut with the 1998 The Opposite of Sex, a fl comedy that provided hilarious and politically incorrect insights on the nature of love and sex from the point of view of a teen-from-hell anti-heroine (Christina Ricci).
		One of the year's most acclaimed films, Roos described it as "a post-AIDS kind of tale from the late '50s when there was the pill until AIDS there was a feeling that sex was careless and free and inconsequential and this movie has a different point of view."
		Born in New York on April 14, 1955, Roos first became involved with screenwriting while an undergraduate at the University of Notre Dame, where he took a screenwriting course.
	movies.aol.com /celebrity/don-roos/167026/biography (384 words)

	Don Roos: Happy Endings - baltimoresun.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Smart enough to recognize a muse when she crosses his path, Roos has penned another rich role for Kudrow, who provides "Happy Endings" with its wary center of gravity as a woman who reluctantly agrees to be filmed in the hunt for a son she gave up for adoption.
		Roos' self-reflexive comedy is less about life in the naked age of reality television than it is a meditation on the importance of being authentic.
		Even the title of Roos' newest comedy of manners, which launched this past winter's Sundance Film Festival, is not what it appears to be.
	www.baltimoresun.com /ny-b4245588may08,0,7065654.story (341 words)

	BOUNCE - Production Notes...CinemaReview.com....Movie Reviews, Movie Contents, Moviegoer Opinions and Much More!
		Don Roos feels that particularly integral to the romantic realism of BOUNCE was the casting of Ben Affleck as Buddy.
		Roos worked closely with Affleck and his co-star Gwyneth Paltrow, who portrays Abby Janello, the resilient young widow and newly single mother who tries to shore up her independence but unwittingly finds herself on the verge of falling in love.
		Roos was particularly impressed with Paltrow's ability to give an unglamorous and uncontrived portrait of a struggling young woman — yet to do so with her luminous beauty.
	www.cinemareview.com /production.asp?prodid=1176 (1940 words)

	INTERVIEW: Director Don Roos Shows Up with Happy Endings - MovieWeb
		Don Roos: Well, I wanted to do a movie about a screwed up family cause I always want to do a movie about a screwed up family, and I thought step brother and step sister was an interesting relationship.
		Don Roos: Well, when you work with Ben, you talk about massage, it comes up (lots of laughter) you have to keep the conversation going and you have to keep the story going, so you make up a story and he tells you another story.
		Don Roos: No, itâs supposed to be the narrator coming out of his shell to come out and announce that he was a person the whole time and it was there to kind of give the character of Jude a boost, cause I had punished her so severely.
	movieweb.com /news/news.php?id=8525 (3624 words)

	Film Info (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Happy Endings is a wildly original and supremely self-conscious comedy by a filmmaker, Don Roos, who clearly embraces the complexity and ambivalence of modern life.
		Roos is a modern American Brecht with unsurpassed comic sensibility and insight.
		Don Roos is the screenwriter of Love Field, Single White Female, Boys on the Side, and the 1996 remake of Diabolique.
	festival.sundance.org /2005/filmguide/popup.aspx?film=6451 (257 words)

	Don Roos Posters - Online poster store, best Don Roos posters gallery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		It is a kind of a soul of the room space, that part of the space that helps to tune on the working rhythm in the office, relax at home, and feel yourself comfortable at a cafe or restaurant.
		A set of well-picked Don Roos poster serve, not only to alternate the interior, but also to create good mood, cosiness, and calm.
		The main goal of this on-line Don Roos poster store is to help you create a unique decor, no matter where: inside a house, office, restaurant or a hotel.
	www.postersland.com /movies/c12330-don-roos.html (440 words)

	Strange Conversation » Happy Endings (Don Roos, 2005, USA)
		Don Roos; screenplay by Don Roos; starring Lisa Kudrow, Steve Coogan, Jesse Bradford, Bobby Cannavale, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jason Ritter, Tom Arnold, David Sutcliffe, Laura Dern
		In Happy Endings, anything Coogan brings to the film is lost with everything else Roos is trying to achieve as he can’t find the sum for all his parts.
		Roos, in trying to keep attention on his characters, tries to work the interlocking element of their lives into a coherent narrative but he misses Tarantino’s trick.
	filmjournal.net /danielstephens/2007/05/07/happy-endings-don-roos-2005-usa (370 words)

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	RadioFree.com Interviews: Don Roos, Happy Endings
		Meanwhile, Charley (Steve Coogan) is trying to convince his partner Gil (David Sutcliffe) that Gil is the biological father of a lesbian couple's child; and elsewhere, a manipulative girl named Jude (Maggie Gyllenhaal) is sleeping with wealthy widower Frank (Tom Arnold) and his gay son Otis (Jason Ritter), who secretly fantasizes about Charley.
		Happy Endings is written and directed by Don Roos (Bounce, and the critically acclaimed The Opposite of Sex).
		DON: Well, I wanted to do a movie about a screwed up family, because I always want to do a movie about a screwed up family.
	movies.radiofree.com /interviews/happyend_don_roos.shtml (2057 words)

	Blogcritics.org: Maggie Gyllenhaal and Lisa Kudrow in Don Roos's Happy Endings: Not Nice
		Writer-director Don Roos's Happy Endings consists of three separate but interconnected comedies, each with a strong component of romance--the protagonists figure out which of their impulses tend toward happiness by acting on those that don't.
		Roos has the gay movie lover's awe of bad girls who flow over and around all impediments, but he can't approve of them--both Jude and Dedee in The Opposite of Sex are pointedly homophobic.
		Roos gets hung up, however, precisely because as a writer he thinks in terms of content, of changing attitudes and emerging lifestyles, rather than in terms of structure.
	blogcritics.org /archives/2005/08/03/213505.php (3967 words)

	Combustible Celluloid film review - Happy Endings (2005), Don Roos, Lisa Kudrow, Steve Coogan, dvd review
		Don Roos, the director of the overrated The Opposite of Sex (1998) and the justly despised Bounce (2000) returns with yet another uneven misfire.
		Roos introduces us to an interweaving mish-mash of characters, some gay, some straight and all living in Los Angeles.
		Many of the characters engage in absurd, sitcom-like behavior during the film's first half, and then Roos expects us to feel sorry for them as they earnestly try to clean up their ridiculous mess in the second half.
	www.combustiblecelluloid.com /2005/happyends.shtml (547 words)

	ORANGE COUNTY WEEKLY OC Weekly: Film: Full Body Massage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Don Roos’ Happy Endings opens, uncharacteristically, on a woman landing with a horrible crunch on the hood of a passing car.
		Roos inspires actors, and Happy Endings has some strikingly good performances, notably from Tom Arnold as a sweet but gullible single dad who’s a sitting target for predatory young nymphs, Maggie Gyllenhaal as a drily understated predatory nymph from hell, and Bobby Cannavale as a masseur who prides himself on giving just that little extra.
		Roos is primarily an entertainer with a common touch, whose sensibility may always remain more soap than opera.
	www.ocweekly.com /ink/05/45/film-taylor2.php (496 words)

	The opposite of sex/Don Roos - de Filmkrant net-versie van september 1999, nr 203 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		De Amerikaan Don Roos bouwde sinds midden jaren tachtig een naam op als scenarist van doordeweekse Hollywoodkost als Single white female, Diabolique en Boys on the side.
		In zijn regiedebuut The opposite of sex tapt Roos echter uit een heel ander vaatje, met als resultaat een bijtend grappige komedie met een glansrol voor Christina Ricci.
		Niets is veilig voor haar cynische observaties, of het nou gaat om de homoseksuele levensstijl, criminaliteit of bijbelfanaten.
	www.filmkrant.nl /av/org/filmkran/archief/fk203/opposite.html (341 words)

	NPR : Director Don Roos Seeks 'Happy Endings'
		Fresh Air from WHYY, July 12, 2005 · Don Roos wrote and directed the new film Happy Endings, starring Tom Arnold, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Lisa Kudrow and Laura Dern.
		Roos, who also directed The Opposite of Sex and Bounce, is known for creating dysfunctional characters who bump into one another in unpredictable ways.
		Roos also wrote the screenplays for the films Love Field, Single White Female and Boys on the Side.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=4749487 (149 words)

	VH1.com : Movies : Person : Don Roos : Biography
		During a sabbatical he wrote the screenplay for Love Field, which was made into a 1991 film starring Michelle Pfeiffer in an Oscar-nominated performance as a housewife traveling from Dallas to John F. Kennedy's funeral.
		A romantic comedy-drama that starred Ben Affleck as a man who falls for a woman (Gwyneth Paltrow) whose husband's death he indirectly caused, it was released in 2000.
		That same year, Roos co-wrote Bless the Child, a thriller starring Kim Basinger, Rufus Sewell, and Sex co-conspirator Ricci.
	www.vh1.com /movies/person/142821/bio.jhtml (393 words)

	The Opposite of Straight (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Producer Mark Crowley marveled at his agent's persistence: "I don't know her, but she's tough!" When Roos got his first check, he ran to a bank and got the full amount in cash and then rushed to Gauthier's apartment and threw all the bills in the air.
		Roos went on to labor in the vineyards of Aaron Spelling's primetime soaps.
		Don Roos: I learned it very quickly because my best friend is Terrence McNally, the playwright, and they have a different system.
	www.wga.org /WrittenBy/0600/opposite.html (3716 words)

	Don Roos - Moviefone
		A screenwriter turned director, Don Roos made his celebrated directorial debut with the 1998 The Opposite of Sex, a fl comedy that provided...
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	movies.aol.com /celebrity/don-roos/167026/main (82 words)

	Zap2it - TV features - Don Roos Crafts Non-Cuddly Character
		/>Writer-director Don Roos calls his new NBC sitcom "Wonder Years' in a halter top." Throw in a dash of "The Opposite of Sex," Roos' 1998 indie film, and you've got a pretty good handle on ''M.Y.O.B.,'' which airs Tuesdays at 9:30 p.m.
		Davis may have been Roos' model, but Christina Ricci is the actress ''Opposite of Sex'' fans will think.
		Says Roos, ''The show is really very conventional, its about two misfits who need each other but pretend they don't.
	tv.zap2it.com /shows/features/features.html?9356 (384 words)

	SUNDANCE: Unk kinda likes Don Roos' HAPPY ENDINGS!! -- Ain't It Cool News: The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic ...
		Had lunch this morning and headed for the Eccles Center to catch the World Premiere for the Film "Happy Endings", directed and written by Don Roos, starring Tom Arnold, Jesse Bradford, Bobby Cannavale, Laura Dern, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Lisa Kudrow on...
		Some of the story of the festival was then mentioned, and the 15-minute talking ended with another shot at the Pres', when Don Roos` thanked his boyfriend saying: "One year attacking (or destroying, or something like that) the sanctity of marriage!"
		Roos is a modern American Brecht with unsurpassed comic sensibility and insight.
	www.aintitcool.com /tb_display.cgi?id=19227 (979 words)

	Buy.com - don roos: Videos/DVDs Search Results
		Starring: Gwyneth Paltrow Ben Affleck Director: Don Roos
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	AboutFilm.com - Happy Endings (2005)
		Some loose connective relationships between the three storylines and a common theme of parenthood—each of the three protagonists has somehow failed to be a parent or might fail to become one, leaving each of them feeling somewhat empty—compose the film's unifying elements.
		For example, it's funny when Roos tells us not to worry if we don't like Mamie (she had a difficult time with her gambling-addicted ex-husband), because he's having a dig at Hollywood's sacred belief that mass-market audiences won't go for movies featuring characters they don't like.
		On the other hand, it's irritating when Roos observes that both Mamie, a counselor at an abortion clinic, and her idiot boyfriend Javier (Bobby Cannavale), a massage therapist, get paid to make people feel better.
	www.aboutfilm.com /movies/h/happyendings.htm (785 words)

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