ON THIS DAY - JAN 4: CAPOTE'S COLD CASH, ORMOND ARRIVES
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Jan 4 2010, 2:01 AM
Julia Ormond is born but it's Truman Capote who gets the payday.
... 45 YEARS AGO
Julia Ormond is born in Surrey, England. In the mid-1990s she'll briefly become the "next big thing" when she appears, consecutively, opposite Brad Pit in Legends Of The Fall, Richard Gere in First Knight and Harrison Ford in the remake of Sabrina. But Smilla's Sense Of Snow, her first lead role, is a critical and commercial failure, from which her career never recovers. Happily, she has recently returned to screens, most notably in The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button and Inland Empire. But fans wanting a dose of her in a lead role should treat themselves to Jennifer Lynch's excellently creepy thriller Surveillance.
… 30 YEARS AGO
Truman Capote’s 30,000-word non-fiction article “Hand Carved Coffins”, published in the December 1979 issue of Interview magazine, is acquired for screen adaptation for the record price of $500,000 by Lester Persky, producer of Shampoo and Hair, who plans to make it for United Artists in 1981. Persky attaches director Hal Ashby, who’s to be reteamed with his The Last Detail star Jack Nicholson. Persky hoped working on the screenplay would keep Capote away from drugs and alcohol. That dream was extinguished when the writer died of an overdose in 1984. Battling his own demons, Ashby continued working on the film, only to succumb to liver cancer in 1988. Next to try would be Dino DeLaurentiis, who acquired the film rights but was unable to convince either of his former collaborators, David Lynch or Michael Cimino, to come on board to direct.
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Julia Ormond is born but it's Truman Capote who gets the payday.
... 45 YEARS AGO
Julia Ormond is born in Surrey, England. In the mid-1990s she'll briefly become the "next big thing" when she appears, consecutively, opposite Brad Pit in Legends Of The Fall, Richard Gere in First Knight and Harrison Ford in the remake of Sabrina. But Smilla's Sense Of Snow, her first lead role, is a critical and commercial failure, from which her career never recovers. Happily, she has recently returned to screens, most notably in The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button and Inland Empire. But fans wanting a dose of her in a lead role should treat themselves to Jennifer Lynch's excellently creepy thriller Surveillance.
… 30 YEARS AGO
Truman Capote’s 30,000-word non-fiction article “Hand Carved Coffins”, published in the December 1979 issue of Interview magazine, is acquired for screen adaptation for the record price of $500,000 by Lester Persky, producer of Shampoo and Hair, who plans to make it for United Artists in 1981. Persky attaches director Hal Ashby, who’s to be reteamed with his The Last Detail star Jack Nicholson. Persky hoped working on the screenplay would keep Capote away from drugs and alcohol. That dream was extinguished when the writer died of an overdose in 1984. Battling his own demons, Ashby continued working on the film, only to succumb to liver cancer in 1988. Next to try would be Dino DeLaurentiis, who acquired the film rights but was unable to convince either of his former collaborators, David Lynch or Michael Cimino, to come on board to direct.
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