By the 1990s Joe Eszterhas had evolved from a radical journalist to a successful screenwriter. His scripts for taut, sexual dramas such as Basic Instinct and Sliver earned him $3 million per picture. His writing was in such demand that Eszterhas became...
Josef Eszterhas (born November 23 1944) is a controversial Hungarian-American writer, best known for his screenplays for the films Basic Instinct and Showgirls. He has also written an autobiography called Hollywood...
For an organization that says it is nonpartisan and stands for open dialogue, the Gotham-based Creative Coalition, founded by a group of actors in 1989, is starting to seem suspiciously closed-minded. After inviting screenwriter Joe Eszterhas to participate on a panel at the...
Suppose you are Joe Eszterhas and you think of yourself as a writer and you sell yourself to Hollywood and you wind up writing screenplays that become sleazy-cheesy-greasy movies such as "Showgirls" and "Jade." What happens to you? You smoke more Salems. You...
Celebrity birthdays for the week of Nov. 18-24:Nov. 18: Actor Brad Sullivan ("Nothing Sacred") is 76. Actress Brenda Vaccaro is 68. Actress Linda Evans is 65. Country singer Jacky Ward is 61. Actor Jameson Parker is 60. Actress-singer Andrea Marcovicci is 59. Drummer Herman Rarebell...
[Ed. note: This article was originally published on July 25th, 2007.] Sex in the Hamptons is a lot like sex in Manhattan—except it’s not. Odd couplings and brief flings, which in the city might raise an eyebrow, are somehow forgiven out on the East End....
