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	Lawrence Kasdan
		Born in Miami Beach, Florida and raised in West Virginia, Lawrence Kasdan attended the University of Michigan with plans to become an English teacher.
		Kasdan bounced back with the romantic comedy French Kiss (1995), starring Meg Ryan as a woman who wants to get her straying fiancé back at any cost, even if it means having to follow him to France.
		Kasdan’s son, Jake Kasdan, has followed in his father’s footsteps, starting off as an actor in his father’s films The Big Chill, Silverado and The Accidental Tourist, then moving on to direct TV series such as Freaks and Geeks and Grosse Pointe, as well as the feature film Orange County (2002).
	www.tribute.ca /bio.asp?id=1311 (514 words)

	Lawrence Kasdan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lawrence Kasdan (born 14 January 1949, Miami, Florida) is an American movie producer, director and screenwriter.
		Lucas then commissioned Kasdan to write the screenplay for Raiders of the Lost Ark and the last installment of the Star Wars trilogy, Return of the Jedi.
		Kasdan is the father of directors/actors Jake and Jon Kasdan.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lawrence_Kasdan (251 words)

	Lawrence Kasdan - Films as Director:, Other Films:
		On the basis of relatively few films, Lawrence Kasdan has had a prestigious career as screenwriter and director, though one that is difficult to characterize easily.
		Kasdan's visual style from film to film may be more difficult to characterize than his handling of genre and actors, though one may note consistently fluid camera movements and a determination to give each film a distinctive look and mood, while keeping a number of the same technical personnel.
		If Kasdan is indeed settling into romantic comedy as his genre of choice, one might hope for more that are as graceful as his most recent films.
	www.filmreference.com /Directors-Jo-Ku/Kasdan-Lawrence.html (1082 words)

	Grand Canyon (1991) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Kasdan's visual poetry draws us in to a world of separate images, forcing potential connections to jack-knife through the mind.
		We see Kasdan is really speaking of how the life's randomness heightens the beauty of connections to others simply because life usually makes no sense and of the responsibility to light the candle for people simply because we grope in darkness ourselves.
		Kasdan does not exude easy answers, but seems to nudge us, asking "what would you do?" as we realize how precisely his everyday, chaotic world mirrors our own and how many untapped choices might be right here with us the moment we finish watching his movie and begin our life.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0101969 (945 words)

	IGN: An Interview with Lawrence Kasdan
		Lawrence Kasdan has often been called a "genre man" and his filmography shows he's worked in a variety of genres, from Westerns (Silverado and Wyatt Earp) to dramas (The Accidental Tourist and Grand Canyon) to his latest release, the Stephen King horror/sci-fi tale Dreamcatcher.
		KASDAN: I invited him to come to the set in British Columbia, and he just really wasn't up for that kind of a trip.
		KASDAN: I think what's great about Stephen, and I think the reason so many of his things have been turned into films and TV mini-series is that somehow he hooks up two very important things.
	filmforce.ign.com /articles/390/390342p1.html (2309 words)

	Kasdan Lawrence - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Kasdan Lawrence - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Kasdan, Lawrence (1949-), American film writer and director, born in Miami.
		Kasdan grew up in West Virginia, and studied education at the...
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Kasdan_Lawrence.html (119 words)

	DVD Verdict Review - The Directors: Lawrence Kasdan
		Lawrence Kasdan's career began as a screenwriter, and with quite a bang.
		At the same time I was surprised to hear Kasdan say when he didn't like one of his films, and how he wished he'd either done it differently or not at all.
		All of their points of view are added to Kasdan's own and really helped me understand how he and his films work.
	www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/lawrencekasdan.php (1168 words)

	Fathom :: The Source for Online Learning
		Shortly after he sold his second script, Lawrence Kasdan was introduced to George Lucas--a meeting that launched Kasdan's famed screenwriting career during which he scripted Indiana Jones' signature brown-leather jacket and detailed Han Solo's escape from Jabba the Hutt's carbon-freezing chamber.
		In 1994, Kasdan sat down with Fellows at the American Film Institute's Conservatory to describe his early screenwriting and directing career and to discuss the rigors of filmmaking.
		Kasdan: I think one of the advantages of writing movies is that you get this incredible saturation education in the movie while you're writing it.
	www.fathom.com /feature/121720/index.html (1991 words)

	Amazon.com: Grand Canyon: Video: Lawrence Kasdan,Danny Glover,Kevin Kline,Steve Martin,Mary McDonnell,Mary-Louise ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Kasdan, very understandably, is attempting to create an experience for viewers as intuitive as the undefined forces propelling his characters.
		Lawrence Kasdan as always is wonderful at giving us a slice of life on film.
		Kasdan had a vision that was unfortunately ahead of its time (and still appears to be in 2006, judging from some of the reviews here!).
	www.amazon.com /Grand-Canyon-Lawrence-Kasdan/dp/6302390478 (2338 words)

	Lawrence Kasdan News
		This weekend the Writers Guild Foundation will honor writer-director Lawrence Kasdan with a two-day retrospective of seven of his films at its Beverly Hills theater.
		Lawrence Kasdan will receive the Screen Laurel Award at this February's 2006 Writers Guild Award ceremony, a lifetime achievement prize for the writer of several of the most successful movies of the past 30...
		Lawrence Kasdan's epic film tells the story of American legend Wyatt Earp from his impressionable boyhood as the son of Nicholas Earp to his reign as one of the West's greatest lawmen-and outlaws.
	www.topix.net /who/lawrence-kasdan (333 words)

	Amazon.com: The Big Chill: DVD: Tom Berenger,Glenn Close,Jeff Goldblum,William Hurt,Kevin Kline,Mary Kay Place,Meg ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Lawrence Kasdan's 1983 big-budget variation on John Sayles's The Return of the Secaucus Seven finds a cluster of old college radicals--who have since gone on to sundry professions and various degrees of materialism--reuniting over the death of a friend.
		Kasdan and his associates have created in this film an especially effective portrayal of certain values during the period in which the action (such as it is) occurs.
		Lawrence Kasdan - Director, Lawrence Kasdan - Writer (Written by), Barbara Benedek - Writer (Written by), Lawrence Kasdan - Producer (executive producer), Marcia Nasatir - Producer (executive producer), Barrie M. Osborne - Producer (associate producer), Michael Shamberg - Producer (producer)...
	www.amazon.com /Big-Chill-Lawrence-Kasdan/dp/B00000G3I2 (1677 words)

	Amazon.ca: Accidental Tourist: DVD: Lawrence Kasdan,Jr. Ed Begley,W.H. Brown,Bud,Peggy Converse,Geena Davis,Robert Hy ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Lawrence Kasdan adapted Anne Tyler's novel into this mopey comedy which, oddly enough, took the New York Film Critics Circle's best picture award (a case of strategic voting getting out of hand).
		Instead of having music in the background all the time as in most films, Lawrence Kasdan thought it wise to let the silence speak and describe the life of the characters.
		Screen Writer/Director, Lawrence Kasden has created a emotional film, that has a wonderful sense of oddball humor.The movie has great characters, that are brought to life by a wonderful cast.
	www.amazon.ca /Accidental-Tourist-Lawrence-Kasdan/dp/B0000TG8XY (2365 words)

	kasdan to receive laurel award
		LOS ANGELES -- Award-winning screenwriter/director/producer Lawrence Kasdan will be honored as this year's recipient of the Screen Laurel Award presented by the Writers Guild of America, west, at the 2006 Writers Guild Awards ceremony on February 4, 2006.
		Lawrence Kasdan wrote a handful of them and made them masterworks to boot.
		Kasdan followed with the Meg Ryan-starring romantic comedy French Kiss (1995), from a screenplay by Adam Brooks, and made his theatrical stage debut that same year as director of Four Dogs and a Bone, a dark comedy written by John Patrick Shanley, which launched the newly renovated Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles.
	www.wga.org /subpage_newsevents.aspx?id=1463 (763 words)

	Amazon.com: Silverado: DVD: Lawrence Kasdan,Kevin Kline,Scott Glenn,Kevin Costner,Danny Glover,Marvin J. McIntyre,Sheb ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Kasdan peppers the somewhat generic action with smart dialogue and a parade of quirky supporting players, including John Cleese as a sheriff who seems to have stepped straight from a Monty Python sketch into an Old West saloon.
		Lawrence Kasdan has a series of precise images he wanted to portray and turned to his brother Mark to help him flesh out a screenplay that would allow him to keep those startling images and make a coherent story.
		Lawrence Kasdan - Director, Lawrence Kasdan - Writer (Written by), Mark Kasdan - Writer (Written by), Michael Grillo - Producer (executive producer), Lawrence Kasdan - Producer (producer), Mark Kasdan - Producer (associate producer), Charles Okun - Producer (executive producer)...
	www.amazon.com /Silverado-Lawrence-Kasdan/dp/B00000JZI9 (2554 words)

	Lawrence Kasdan - Moviefone
		The archetypal Hollywood baby boomer, American director Lawrence Kasdan planned to be an English teacher upon his graduation from the University of...
		George Lucas commissioned Kasdan in 1979 to complete the screenplay for The Empire...
		Lawrence Kasdan - Filmography, Biography, News, Photos, Birth date, Relationships, Lawrence Kasdan Film Clips, and Fun Facts on Moviefone.
	movies.aol.com /celebrity/lawrence-kasdan/96824/main (114 words)

	Amazon.com: Mumford: DVD: Lawrence Kasdan,Loren Dean,Hope Davis,Jason Lee,Alfre Woodard,Mary McDonnell,Pruitt Taylor ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The mood of this tepid comedy, which was written and directed by Lawrence Kasdan, is companionable but vaguely tedious-the movie resembles a droning radio show from about 1946.
		Kasdan solves his plot difficulties by pairing off the patients in unlikely combinations.
		Lawrence Kasdan - Director, Lawrence Kasdan - Writer (Written by), Stephen P. Dunn - Producer (co-producer), Linda Goldstein Knowlton - Producer (co-producer), Jon Hutman - Producer (co-producer), Lawrence Kasdan - Producer (producer), Charles Okun - Producer (producer)...
	www.amazon.com /Mumford-Lawrence-Kasdan/dp/6305801142 (2374 words)

	DEVELOPMENT - Reviews
		In 1983 Lawrence Kasdan summed up the anxieties and morals of his generation in The Big Chill.
		Using the Grand Canyon as an all-purpose metaphor for the divisions opening up in American society, Kasdan tries to address the state of the nation in a way few Hollywood film-makers have risked in recent years, and he's been rewarded with the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival.
		The best explanation for this award is that the film seems more profound in a foreign language since the harder Kasdan tries to be serious, the more he falls back on platitudes.
	www.newint.org /issue232/reviews.htm (2070 words)

	Lawrence Kasdan — Infoplease.com
		Lawrence Kasdan earned a master's degree in education and worked as an advertising copywriter before selling his first movie script,
		Mumford - Director/Writer: Lawrence Kasdan Touchstone Pictures; 115 minutes; R Release: 9/99 Cast: Loren...
		Casting org sets kudos.(Lions Gate Films' "Crash" to compete with other releases, Lawrence Kasdan and Marcia S. Ross to be honored,......
	www.infoplease.com /ipea/A0762324.html (242 words)

	Star Wars: Biography \| Lawrence Kasdan
		After graduating from the University of Michigan, Lawrence Kasdan had originally planned on a career as an English teacher.
		However after winning several awards for writing several TV commercials, Kasdan tried his hand at screenwriting and eventually earned a credit as the co-writer for The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi.
		This success led Kasdan to script Raider of the Lost Ark. Later Kasdan went on to write and direct some of the most popular films of the 1980s and 1990s including The Accidental Tourist, The Big Chill, Grand Canyon and The Bodyguard.
	www.starwars.com /bio/lawrencekasdan.html (116 words)

	lawrence-kasdan.htm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Of particular value is Kasdan's candor in discussing the disappointments of his career, and his strict preference to direct his own screenplays rather than entrust them to another filmmaker.
		This one-hour documentary includes engaging interview clips with Kevin Kline (a Kasdan regular), Geena Davis, Bill Pullman, and Dennis Quaid, but other clips (Meg Ryan, Kevin Costner) were clearly lifted from secondary sources (promotional interviews and such), and they're too brief to be of interest.
		Taken as a whole, however, this look at Kasdan's career is comprehensive (up to 1995's French Kiss) and valuable for its extended interview with Kasdan himself--a gifted writer who has found his dream job in directing (and protecting) the films of his choice.
	homepage.mac.com /vanvdo/l/lawrence-kasdan.htm (138 words)

	Lawrence Kasdan Biography :: Hollywood.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		These colossal hits opened the door for Kasdan to do what he had always wanted to do--direct, and his initial effort seemed to herald the arrival of a major talent.
		Kasdan's early strength, characterization, was now only a memory, as still more hip young actors in flat, underwritten roles paraded through a film that tried too hard to be a parody.
		Co-written by Kasdan and wife Meg, the film received mixed reviews, being dubbed by some critics a "Big Chill for the 90s" and derided by others as mushy, superficial and unconvincing.
	www.hollywood.com /celebs/fulldetail/id/195968 (1175 words)

	Lawrence Kasdan Biography, Photos, News for Lawrence Kasdan \| TVGuide.com
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	DREAMCATCHER - WIDESCREEN DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Based on the first King novel written after the author was smeared across a Maine highway by a man who would later kill himself in a trailer, the book is a fine short story trapped in the body of a six-hundred page book.
		Like the book, the film is overlong (at a slow 135 minutes) and only really engages during its prologue, providing maddening glimpses of promising storylines and character moments tossed aside in favour of being a cut-rate adaptation of a cut-rate King novel.
		Here, Kasdan says that, having written two Star Wars episodes, he was growing anxious to play with the toys that George Lucas gets to, but his unoriginal creature designs for Dreamcatcher suggest that it's not the technology that eluded Kasdan, but the last decade's worth of monster movies.
	www.filmfreakcentral.net /dvdreviews/dreamcatcher.htm (1108 words)

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