The kid stays in whose picture?
Published May 10, 2003
A somewhat odd story concerning the documentary The Kid Stays In The Picture, the Robert Evans autobiopic. According to an article linked in the post (a generic URL whose content will likely change, so there's no point linking it), a fellow called David Weisman is filing suit against Evans and the makers of the film on the grounds that they stole his ideas for making the documentary; according to him, he conceived the idea of Evans narrating an assortment of found footage rather than the dramatised version Evans was planning, and made a short demo reel of it about five years ago. The puzzling thing, though, is the presence of Hector Babenco (director of Pixote and Kiss of the Spider Woman) in the credits, which, according to the documentary's director Graydon Carter, came about because Evans had shown Carter the demo reel and claimed it had actually been made by Babenco, not Weisman. As a further aside, Weisman was the producer of Babenco's Kiss of the Spider Woman. If there's nowt so queer as folk, there's nowt so twisted as the entertainment industry...
- The kid stays in whose picture?
- Published: May 10, 2003
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- Writer: James Russell
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