The Boston Globe, April 13th, 2003
Forget high-powered agents, relentless directors, or producers with clout. Sigourney Weaver is starring in "Holes," the Walt Disney Pictures adaptation of the popular children's novel, because her daughter told her to. That's the story, at least, that director Andrew Davis was telling the other day. He and writer Louis Sachar, who adapted his own novel for the movie, were in town to talk about "Holes" before its local opening on Friday. "It's her daughter's favorite book," Davis says of Weaver. "In fact, when her daughter read it, she said, `There's this really mean woman called the Warden , a...
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