L.A. Story and Roxanne: Screenplays
Category: Books,Humor & Entertainment,Movies
L.A. Story and Roxanne: Screenplays Details
From the Back Cover 'Behind the clownish make-up, Steve Martin gives a sweet and serious performance as a latter-day Cyrano de Bergerac in Roxanne. It's easy to see why Mr. Martin, who wrote the film...was moved to reinvent this role...Mr. Martin's screenplay is bighearted and funny.' The New York Times Read more
Reviews
O.k. Steve Martin is a very talented and funny man with a tendency at his best to be inspired and at his worst, sentimental. What you have here are examples of the two extremes. Roxanne, one of his inspired creations and LA Story, a turgid piece of sentimentalism with an occasional spark. I am english, twenty years resident in Spain. Writer and actor. I don't go for the crass sentimentalism of a lot of Hollywood product. (I know that LA Story was well received in the states) You might like it. Steve Martin has made a lot of squirm-inducing films in my opinion and this book shows him as a writer at his best and his worst.
