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	Rod Lurie - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Rod Lurie (born 1962) is an American director, screenwriter and former film critic.
		Lurie's first foray into filmmaking, as writer and director, was the low-budget political thriller Deterrence (1999), with Kevin Pollak as the first Jewish President of the United States.
		Lurie places sly tributes to his alma mater in his shows: Deterrence had an aide-de-camp to the President admitting he had to settle for the United States Air Force Academy because he couldn't get into West Point; also, the aide's name was Nick Coddington who was one of Lurie's roommates at West Point.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rod_Lurie (393 words)

	Rod Lurie @ Filmbug
		Rod Lurie wrote and directed last year's widely praised political thriller The Contender, starring Joan Allen as a senator whose confirmation as Vice President is threatened by rumors of a sexual indiscretion in her past.
		Lurie's upcoming projects include the thriller Scenes of the Crime," starring Jeff Bridges and Noah Wyle, on which he serves as a producer.
		Lurie graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1984 and went on to serve for four years as a Combat Arms Officer in the U.S. Army.
	www.filmbug.com /db/341979 (427 words)

	Madame candidate (Metro Times Detroit) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Lurie is a born provocateur and he isn’t afraid to piss people off.
		Lurie insists that the events of the film — congressional hearings used as a partisan-driven sexual witch-hunt — have less to do with Bill Clinton frolicking in the White House than the perception of women as powerful political figures.
		Lurie’s first film, Deterrence, follows a Jewish-American president (an appointed VP who assumes the office after the popular incumbent’s death) as he must decide whether to employ nuclear weapons against an aggressive, obstinate Iraq.
	www.metrotimes.com /editorial/story.asp?id=719 (843 words)

	The Jewish Journal Of Greater Los Angeles
		News reports and sources cite conflicting reasons why Israeli-born Rod Lurie was booted or departed as show-runner of the successful new ABC drama, “Commander in Chief,” about the first female president of the United States.
		Lurie, the show’s creator, was replaced by TV veteran Steven Bochco (“NYPD Blue,” “L.A. Law”) last week — a highly unusual move on a show that is doing so well in the ratings.
		Lurie is the son of Ranan Lurie, the famed Israeli political cartoonist, who often entertained Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres in the family’s Herzelyia home.
	www.jewishjournal.com /home/preview.php?id=14809 (563 words)

	CNN Interactive Chat Transcript - Rod Lurie on "The Contender"
		Rod Lurie: "The Contender" is a sexual thriller set in Washington, D.C., about a female vice presidential candidate who is destroyed, bit-by-bit, by having her sexual past revealed by her opponents.
		Rod Lurie: I had a lot of fun as a film critic, but I never thought I was a particularly astute one until I decided to change professions and see if I could be better at something else.
		Rod Lurie: Joan knew about me from my days as a film critic and assured me that, at the very least, she would read a screenplay if I wrote it for her.
	www.cnn.com /chat/transcripts/2000/10/11/lurie (1819 words)

	Rod Lurie
		Rod Lurie exposed the tabloid National Enquirer in Los Angeles Magazine in 1990 and 1992.
		ROD LURIE concludes it's because the tabs went public in 1991 and are driven to find sensational stories to attract readers, advertisers and profits.
		Lurie was told by his assistant that Pellicano had approached him and asked him to spy on Lurie.
	www.lukeford.net /profiles/profiles/rod_lurie.htm (2960 words)

	Rod Lurie: biography and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Rod Lurie (born June 15, EHandler: no quick summary.
		Lurie's first foray into filmmaking, EHandler: no quick summary.
		The contender (2000) is a disturbing political thriller directed by rod lurie about a democratic president who, in the wake of his vice presidents death,...
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/r/ro/rod_lurie.htm (385 words)

	Reel.com: The Contender (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Lurie was able to attract some of Hollywood's top talent to star in the film, including Joan Allen to play Senator Hanson — a feat made only more remarkable when one realizes that he began his career as a movie critic.
		I thought, Rod Lurie who used to be a film journalist — whenever I ask a film journalist if they knew Rod Lurie they would roll their eyes because he was always asking these technical questions.
		Rod having written a role specifically for her when I read it that first time, I just pictured her so perfectly in the film.
	www.reel.com /reel.asp?node=features/interviews/contender (2978 words)

	Rod Lurie's The Contender
		Rod Lurie began his career as a writer on film for various publications in the U.S., but as with so many before him, he had an idea for a script, the desire to direct, and the image of Joan Allen as the lead.
		Lurie's film tackles such ethical questions, with the central focus of The Contender a valid and socially pertinent one: is a person's sexual history and the decisions made away from, or far before, their assumption of public office subsequently fair game for their political opponents and the media to expose and exploit?
		Lurie is simply far too concerned with showing Hanson in a positive light, and this decision works to the detriment of the central theme of the film.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/01/13/contender.html (1982 words)

	Impeachment not revisited The Contender, written and directed by Rod Lurie
		Lurie is clearly mesmerized by the power wielded by the Washington elite.
		Lurie is essentially a Hollywood insider, who can't conceive of life outside the privileged fast-lane.
		In the film's production notes, Lurie expounds on his banal vision: “It is virtually impossible in politics to paint anyone as a good guy or a bad guy.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2000/oct2000/cont-o28.shtml (1205 words)

	The Contender (Rod Lurie) Joan Allen Jeff Bridges Gary Oldman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The audio commentary by Rod Lurie is quite interesting, for the writer / director discusses his views on the role of women in politics and his own liberal political stance—not that it would be any big surprise to anyone who has watched The Contender.
		Lurie also talks in great detail about several of his directorial decisions and even touches on the well-publicized problems that arose between himself and Gary Oldman (see Notes / Trivia).
		With Lurie hogging the microphone, Joan Allen doesn't get to say much, and the little she does say is not very illuminating.
	www.altfg.com /Reviews/Contender.htm (1430 words)

	Rod Lurie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Lurie seemed to be destined for an entirely different profession when he opted to attend college at the prestigious West Point military academy.
		Lurie then made good on his promise to Allen with The Contender, about a Democratic senator's embattled appointment to be the first female Vice President.
		Lurie subsequently got to use his West Point experience when Dreamworks hired him to direct the military prison drama The Last Castle (2001), starring Robert Redford as a jailed general (and West Point grad).
	www.djangomusic.com /actor_bio.asp?pid=P270459 (386 words)

	The Contender (2000) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Despite a graceful and compelling lead performance by Joan Allen and some noble political sentiments of the liberal kind, director Rod Lurie's film suffers from an overweening pedagoguery and a problematic, implausible script.
		Lurie also wants viewers to question whether the sex life of a political candidate has any bearing on his or her appropriateness for the job, but he chickens out near the end (spoilers ahead).
		Lurie says in the press notes that he considers Joan Allen the finest actress currently working and that he wrote The Contender specifically for her.
	www.reel.com /movie.asp?MID=131296&buy=closed&Tab=reviews&CID=13 (846 words)

	Catherine Seipp on Commander in Chief National Review Online
		Also, that Rod — whom I’ve known and liked since he moved to Los Angeles 15 years ago — doesn’t exactly have a reputation for hiding his light under a bushel.
		Lurie also got a little tetchy when a reporter asked if any of the writers or actors on stage with him at the press conference were Republicans.
		As for Lurie, he may be a better fit in the auteur world of feature films, where the director/writer is king, than the death-by-a-thousand-paper-cuts creative atmosphere of network TV.
	www.nationalreview.com /seipp/seipp200510140806.asp (1023 words)

	Biography for Rod Lurie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Unfortunately, Lurie's sensationalist and highly informal style of film criticism made him one of the most hated film critics in the country.
		Lurie combined the still-unanswered questions of Watergate and his talk radio day job into a tense, half-hour thriller.
		While Lurie plots his next move, he is no doubt one of the more talented filmmakers to emerge at the turn of the 21st Century.
	www.imdb.com /name/nm0527109/bio (746 words)

	AboutFilm.Com - The Contender (2000)
		By introducing her with her skirt up, writer/director Rod Lurie surely intends her to be a negative figure.
		Lurie confounds our expectations: Hanson is the most noble figure in the movie—implausibly noble by the end, in fact.
		Lurie tries to make Hanson so noble a figure that he finally reveals that the person in the photographs is not her, and that the proof is the lack of a birthmark on the woman's thigh.
	www.aboutfilm.com /movies/c/contender.htm (1642 words)

	Style Weekly : Richmond's alternative for news, arts, culture and opinion
		Lurie consulted Thompson and other local agents before writing the show, which is set to air on ABC in the fall.
		Still, Lurie wanted realistic sets and local flavor for the series, which follows the intertwined stories of a mobster, played by David Paymer, and a rookie FBI agent, played by Virginia native Leslie Bibb.
		When she met with Lurie to discuss doing the series, Thompson says, “she was insistent that the director would accurately and fairly portray the FBI,” and not “gratuitously bash” the organization.
	www.styleweekly.com /article.asp?idarticle=6283 (949 words)

	Ranan Lurie - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ranan Lurie (born 1932) is an Israeli and American editorial cartoonist and journalist, a Senior Associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and the editor of Cartoon News magazine.
		He became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1974.
		Lurie is the father of film and television director and screenwriter Rod Lurie.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ranan_Lurie (108 words)

	AOL Canada \| Entertainment \| Movies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Then James Cameron and Mel Gibson followed suit by thanking Lurie in their Oscar acceptance speeches because he had bet them on-air that they would be nominated and win.
		Lurie decided to butt his own talents on the line and write and direct his own short film entitled 4 Second Delay (1998).
		Lurie is the only American film critic to ever have directed a feature film while still actively working as a film critic.
	www.tribute.ca /aol/movieinfo/DIRECTOR.asp?id=4247 (409 words)

	Two Words: Jeff Ellis
		That the show was created by Rod Lurie should be obvious to anyone who had to sit through The Contender, a film in which Joan Allen played a woman with absolutely business being Vice President but got the job anyway.
		I say this because all of Lurie's projects deal with liberal politicians and they're always chock full of political trivia that -- while improving the film not a bit -- always leave the viewer assured as to just how little Lurie thinks of them.
		This probably means that, while Lurie wanted to show Donald Sutherland and his fellow Republicans eating babies, the network executives thought that just a few senior citizens roasting on a spit would do the job.
	jeffellisonline.blogspot.com /2005/10/this-just-out-from-hollywood.html (1170 words)

	Movie Forums - Gary Oldman and "The Contender" director Rod Lurie
		Lurie has ordered Oldman's name removed from above-title positions in current trailers for the film and has ignored Oldman's major contributions to the film in recent interviews.
		Director Rod Lurie and Dreamworks have no idea how many Oldman fans are present in the general public.
		Dreamworks and Lurie have not tried to convince him otherwise since the film was intended as a vehicle for Joan Allen.
	www.movieforums.com /community/showthread.php?t=37 (1195 words)

	FilmStew.com • Champ Role for Hartnett
		Josh Hartnett is on the beat, while Sam Jackson winds up on the street for latest Rod Lurie project.
		The tyro journalist soon becomes close to the man but comes to discover that the fighter was not the former champ he thought he was.
		Lurie has become famous for his political fare such as the feature The Contender and creating TV's Commander in Chief.
	www.filmstew.com /Content/Article.asp?ContentID=13620&Pg=1 (294 words)

	CANOE -- JAM! - Joan Allen now a Contender
		Rod Lurie was pretty good at handicapping the Oscars, if you care about that sort of thing, and he did.
		Rod Lurie said, "No thank you." Rod Lurie got Joan Allen, he got Jeff Bridges (to portray the U.S.President) and he got Gary Oldman to play a political adversary.
		If Rod Lurie intends to bet on the Academy Awards for this year, he may well be betting on himself.
	jam.canoe.ca /Movies/Artists/A/Allen_Joan/2000/10/08/pf-756324.html (775 words)

	JoBlo reviews the movie "The Contender"
		Notable direction by Rod Lurie who admirably took an extremely politically charged screenplay and turned it into a fascinating drama, all without bogging it down in overripe political movie jargon.
		Rod Lurie did a very nice job presenting a female vice-presidential candidate under the microscope and the wonderful Joan Allen really pulled it off.
		As she told Rod at one point during the filming, her character needed to be vulnerable to be powerful.
	www.joblo.com /contender.htm (2202 words)

	ToxicUniverse.com - Rod Lurie - 2000 - Contender, The Movies Review
		Unfortunately, Lurie forgets to infuse her character with any real humanity, beyond her first scene (when we see her getting frisky on her office desk with her husband).
		Lurie even provides us with a scene that this conversion could have been discussed when Hansen meets with her father, a retired Republican governor.
		Lurie has learned a few film techniques through his years as a film critic, and his script is stronger than Roger Ebert’s ludicrous Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, but there are a number of plot holes that don’t make a lot of sense.
	www.culturedose.net /review.php?rid=10001631 (1467 words)

	Rod Lurie Photos - Rod Lurie News - Rod Lurie Information
		Rod Lurie Photos - Rod Lurie News - Rod Lurie Information
		Rod Lurie Show creator and executive producer goes into detail on how he came up with the revolutionary concept of the show.
		Tell the world what you think of Rod Lurie, write a review for this person.
	www.tv.com /rod-lurie/person/163107/summary.html (195 words)

	The Rod Lurie Picture Pages
		ROD LURIE made his film writing and directing debut with the dramatic short "4 Second Delay," which won the Prix du Jury at the 1998 Festival of American Cinema in Deauville, France.
		Lurie followed with his first feature film, "Deterrence," a drama about America on the brink of nuclear war, starring Kevin Pollak and Timothy Hutton.
		Lurie was educated at the United States Military Academy at West Point, where he graduated in 1984.
	www.superiorpics.com /rod_lurie (358 words)

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