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Van Sant Considering Jack Black, Woody Harrelson for Acid

By Joe Shearer on 1:09 PM on April 24, 2009

For the role of writer Ken Kesey in the upcoming film adaptation of The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, director Gus Van Sant had one person in mind. Unfortunately, that person was the late, Academy Award-winning actor Heath Ledger. ... read more

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Fox Searchlight drinks Gus Van Sant's Kool-Aid

By Jeremy Medina on 4:06 PM on October 29, 2008

Director Gus Van Sant and screenwriter Dustin Lance Black must have made a good team on the upcoming political biopic Milk, because the two have already made a deal with Fox Searchlight to reunite. ... read more

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Tom Wolfe's Charlotte Simmons to become HBO series

By Jeffrey Bloomer on 11:32 AM on September 30, 2008

Tom Wolfe’s 2004 college expose I Am Charlotte Simmons turned out to be thick in more ways than one. Despite well-publicized research and one of the sharpest eyes for social satire in the genre's history, the 676-page tome was angrily dismissed by critics and by many in college circles as shrill, obvious nonsense. ... read more

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Tom Wolfe's Charlotte Simmons heading to the big screen

By Julia Reidy on 4:14 PM on May 1, 2008

Tom Wolfe's 2005 novel, I Am Charlotte Simmons (Picador), about an innocent country girl facing the comparative social wilds of an American college, will get its chance to shock theater audiences when music video director Liz Friedlander takes all its scandalous content to full-length feature format next year. The last book the newspaper reporter-turned-bestselling author optioned for film was 1987's The Bonfire of the Vanities. Freidlander's previous directorial credits include episodes of One Tree Hill, 2006's Antonio Banderas-led Take The Lead and a segment in Blink 182: Greatest Hits, as well as music videos for the likes of U2. John... read more

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