Woods Supports Giuliani
Patriotic American star James Woods is looking out for Rudy Giuliani - by making sure he's shown in the best possible light. The actor, due to play Giuliani in a cable TV movie, has demanded a rewrite of his script because it didn't make the ex-New York mayor look heroic enough. An insider says, "Woods wanted the movie to be more red, white and blue." The source explains that Woods and USA Networks execs thought the script dwelled too much on Giuliani's tortured relationships with his father and his ex-wife Donna Hanover. The original script was by Stanley Weiser, who wrote Wall Street. An ally of Weiser's says, "Stanley wrote the story the USA Network people said they wanted. But the network caved in to the whim of a right-wing actor." But Woods' rep says the actor remains a registered Democrat. Jeff Wachtel, executive producer, says "Stanley is a wonderful writer but we had some problems with his script." Weiser was replaced by Lionel Chetwynd, who penned the patriotic work To Heal A Nation. Chetwynd says he believes the story's fulcrum should be Giuliani's leadership after September 11, "when he became, like Churchill, the embodiment of his people."...
- 8/28/2002
- WENN
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