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Gus Van Sant: Lance Black
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In 1994, Van Sant released Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, a film based on Tom Robbins's cult-classic book. Cowgirls was a mess in nearly every respect. A poorly executed and disappointing endeavor, it quickly disappeared from the nation's cinema houses. Van Sant recovered nicely, though, with To Die For, an adaptation of a novel by Joyce Maynard. Blessed with an inspired performance by Nicole Kidman in the lead role, the film is a withering black comedy that aims venomous barbs at America's television media and star-obsessed culture with deadly accuracy.
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The first is a new film by Gus Van Sant, an adaptation of Tom Wolfe's THE ELECTRIC KOOL-AID ACID TEST. Lance Black (BIG LOVE) will script as Sant locks down the financing.
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Reserved and low-key, Van Sant speaks in a soothing, resonant voice - Kevin Spacey without the modulation shifts - and has a personal manner that's devoid of show-biz bravado and self-importance. (Robin Williams once called him a cross between William S. Burroughs and Mister Rogers.) Disarmingly informal in his white T-shirt and blue jeans, black jacket and black sneakers, he looks more like a record-store clerk than one of the country's most respected filmmakers.
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