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October
1985, Draft 2
(Los Angeles): ICM, (no date). Softcover. Very Good.
Screenplay. Stated Second draft. Quarto. 108 leaves printed rectos only.
Bradbound in ICM/International Creative Management Partners back cover wrapper
(front is missing). An apparently unused draft by Academy
Award-winning writer (for *Breaking Away*) Tesich, possibly one of his last
screenplays. After 1985, Tesich limited himself to writing plays.
Included is a script reader's review by novelist Josh
Gidding. The review is labelled for legendary producer Mark Canton at Warner
Bros from Sam Cohn, legendary agent at ICM. The recommendation for production
was NO. There is a 7-page review and comment from Gidding.
Script is in very good condition. Has original agency
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An apparently unused draft by Academy Award-winning
writer (for *Breaking Away*) Tesich, possibly his last screenplay. After 1985,
Tesich limited himself to writing plays.
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Stojan Steve Tesich (Serbian: Стојан Стив Тешић, Stojan Stiv
Tešić; September 29, 1942 – July 1, 1996) was a Serbian-American screenwriter,
playwright, and novelist. He won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay
in 1979 for the film Breaking Away.
Early life
Steve Tesich was born as Stojan Tešić (pronounced TESH-ich)
in Užice, in Axis-occupied Yugoslavia (now Serbia) on September 29, 1942. He
immigrated to the United States with his mother and sister when he was 14 years
old.[1] His family settled in East Chicago, Indiana. His father died in 1962.
Tesich graduated from Indiana University in 1965 with a BA
in Russian. He was a member of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity. He went on to do
graduate work at Columbia University, receiving an MA in Russian Literature in
1967.
After graduation, he worked as a Department of Welfare
caseworker in Brooklyn, New York in 1968.[2]
Career
He began his career as a playwright with the 1969 play The
Predators, which was staged as a workshop production at the American Academy of
Dramatic Arts in New York City.[3]
In the 1970s, he wrote a series of plays that were staged at
The American Place Theatre in New York City. The first of these plays, The
Carpenters, premiered during the 1970-1971 season.[4] Baba Goya made its debut
at the theater in May 1973; the cast included Olympia Dukakis and John
Randolph. Later that year, the play was staged at the Cherry Lane Theatre under
a different name (Nourish the Beast).[5]
The play The Carpenters starring Vincent Gardenia, Jon
Korkes, and Kitty Winn, presented on the Hollywood Television Theatre's
Conflicts series, was shown on PBS on December 19, 1973 in a telecast from
8:30-9:30 PM EST. The theme of the play, directed by Norman Lloyd, was the
disintegration of an American family divided by the generation gap.
John Randolph, Eileen Brennan, and John Beck starred in the
comedy Nourish the Beast on PBS on Thursday, February 12, 1974, also presented
as part of the Hollywood Television Theatre's Conflicts series. The play, also
directed by Norman Lloyd, is about a dysfunctional family headed by the
eccentric Baba Goya who confronts crises with her husband, son, and daughter.
Tesich's screenplay for Breaking Away (1979) had its origins
in his college years. He had been an alternate rider in 1962 for the Phi Kappa
Psi team in the Little 500 bicycle race. Teammate Dave Blase rode 139 of 200
laps and was the victorious rider crossing the finish line for his team. They
subsequently developed a friendship. Blase became the model for the main
character in Breaking Away.[6] The working title of the film script was
Bambino.[7] The film was a hit, and Tesich won the Academy Award for Best
Original Screenplay.[8] He also created a short-lived TV series of the same
name.
His play Division Street opened on Broadway at the
Ambassador Theatre in New York City on October 8, 1980. The production starred
John Lithgow and Keene Curtis. It closed after 21 performances. The play was
revived in 1987 at the Second Stage, with Saul Rubinek in the lead role.[9]
Tesich reunited with Peter Yates, the director of Breaking
Away, on the 1981 thriller Eyewitness starring Sigourney Weaver, William Hurt,
Morgan Freeman, and Christopher Plummer.[10]
His next screenplay was for the semi-autobiographical film
Four Friends which was directed by Arthur Penn which covered the activism and
turbulence of the 1960s. Vincent Canby of the New York Times wrote in his
review: "For Mr. Tesich, it is another original work by one of our best
young screenwriters." Roger Ebert wrote in the Chicago Sun-Times that it
was "a very good movie."
He adapted John Irving's novel The World According to Garp
for the screen in 1982 directed by George Roy Hill and starring Robin Williams
and Glenn Close in her film debut. The best-selling novel had been described as
unfilmable.[11] The screenplay was nominated for Best Drama Adapted from
Another Medium by the Writers Guild of America (WGA) in 1983.
Tesich returned to the sport of cycling with the screenplay
for American Flyers (1985). The main characters were two brothers, played by
Kevin Costner and David Marshall Grant, who enter a long-distance bicycle race
in the Colorado Rockies.
His final screenplay was for the 1985 film Eleni, starring
John Malkovich, Kate Nelligan, and Linda Hunt, based on the Nicholas Gage book,
also directed by Peter Yates.
His novel Karoo was published posthumously in 1998. Arthur
Miller described the novel: "Fascinating—a real satiric invention full of
wise outrage." The novel was a New York Times Notable Book for 1998.[13]
The novel also appeared in a German translation as Abspann, and it was also
translated in France in 2012 where it was acclaimed by the critics and became a
best-seller.[14]
Oxford Dictionaries credits Tesich with the first use of the
term "post-truth," which Oxford defined as "circumstances in
which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than
appeals to emotion and personal belief." Ralph Keyes, author of The
Post-Truth Era (2004), also says he first saw the term "in a 1992 Nation
essay by the late Steve Tesich." Post-truth was Oxford's 2016 Word of the
Year.[15]
Death
Tesich died in Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada on July 1, 1996,
following a heart attack. He was 53 years old.
Honors and awards
In 1973, Tesich won the Vernon Rice or Drama Desk Award for
Most Promising Playwright for the play Baba Goya, which is also known under the
title Nourish the Beast.
Tesich won the following awards for the Breaking Away
screenplay in 1979:
Academy Award, Best Original Screenplay
National Society of Film Critics Award, Best Screenplay
New York Film Critics Circle Award, Best Screenplay
Writers Guild of America Award, Best-Written Comedy Written
Directly for the Screen
Screenwriter of the Year, ALFS Award from the London Critics
Circle Film Awards, 1981
He also received a nomination in 1980 for a Golden Globe for
Best Screenplay-Motion Picture.
In 2005, the Ministry of Religion and Diaspora established
the annual Stojan—Steve Tešić Award, to be awarded to the writers of Serbian
origin that write in other languages.
Screenplays
Film
Breaking Away (1979)
Eyewitness (1981)
Four Friends (1981)
The World According to Garp (1982)
American Flyers (1985)
Eleni (1985)
Television
The Carpenters, play for television, 1973
Nourish the Beast, play for television, 1974
Apple Pie, television series, 1978
Breaking Away, television series, "The Cutters"
(teleplay), "La Strada" (story), 1980-1981
Plays
The Predators, 1969
The Carpenters, 1970
Lake of the Woods, 1971[17]
Nourish the Beast, also performed under the title Baba Goya,
1973
Gorky, 1975
Passing Game, 1977
Touching Bottom, 1978
Division Street, 1980
The Speed Of Darkness, 1989
Square One, 1990
The Road, 1990
Baptismal, 1990
On the Open Road, 1992
Arts & Leisure, 1996
Novels
Summer Crossing (1982), was also published in a German
translation as Ein letzter Sommer and in a French translation as Price
Karoo (1996, posthumously released 1998), paperback edition
in 2004 with new introduction by E. L. Doctorow; German-language version
entitled Abspann and a French-language version Karoo same as original.
Collections
Division Street & Other Plays. New York: Performing Arts
Journal Publications, 1981. 171 pages. Contents: Division Street -- Baba Goya
-- Lake of the Woods -- Passing Game.
Novelizations
Breaking Away. A novel by Joseph Howard. Based on a
screenplay by Steve Tesich. New York: Warner Books, Inc. 1979.
Eyewitness. A Mystery by John Minahan. Based on a Screenplay
written by Steve Tesich. New York: Avon, 1981.
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Samuel Charles Cohn (May 11, 1929 – May 6, 2009)[1] was
an American talent agent at International Creative Management,
a firm he helped create, in the borough of Manhattan in
New York City.
Cohn has been described as one of the most powerful agents
in the 1970s and 1980s,[1] and
had an extensive client list that included top stars in theater and film. Some of his most well-known
clients included Paul Newman, Woody
Allen, Meryl Streep, Sigourney
Weaver, Liza Minnelli, Whoopi
Goldberg, Cher, Dianne
Wiest, Jackie Gleason, Dame
Maggie Smith, Robert Altman, and E.L.
Doctorow. Time magazine called Cohn "the first
superagent of the modern age".
Josh Gidding is the author of Failure: An
Autobiography (Cyan Books, 2007), and a novel, The Old Girl (Holt,
Rinehart and Winston, 1980), as well as short fiction, literary criticism, and
many book reviews.
Mark Canton is an American film producer and executive.
Canton worked as executive vice president at Warner
Bros. from 1980 onwards. Successes he was involved in at the time
include 1983's National Lampoon's Vacation, Purple Rain, and the Batman and Lethal
Weapon film series,[4] but
also notorious box office failures like The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990),[5] a
picture he described as "the best movie I ever saw" at its first
screening.[6]
In 1991, Canton quit Warner
Bros. where he was executive vice president of the Worldwide Motion
Picture Production unit.[7] Warner
Bros. let him out of his contract fifteen months early with studio head Bob Daly saying
"from our standpoint this was a job that was going to be eliminated."[8] He
then became chairman of Sony's Columbia
Pictures (later Columbia-TriStar
Pictures), where he was involved with some failures like Geronimo: An American Legend, but also
with blockbusters such as Men in Black, Air Force One, and My Best Friend's Wedding.[4]
Canton in March 2010
Canton was fired by Sony in 1996, after a series of relative
flops including Last Action Hero (a film Canton described as
"probably the best action movie of all time"[9]) and The
Cable Guy, before his final string of movies could become blockbusters.[10] Described
at the time as both "known for enthusiasm, rapid-fire talk, a sleek
Italian wardrobe and a youthful style"[3] and
"a braggart who was lucky to have become chairman of a studio in the first
place",[11] Canton
was in those years "one of the most powerful executives in
Hollywood".[2]
In 1998, Canton became an independent film producer,
with Jack Frost starring Michael
Keaton as his first major production.[12] Backed
by the German company Senator Entertainment from August 2000 onwards, he struck
a first-look deal with Warner Bros. By the end of 2001, the shares of Senator
had dropped substantially and Canton had to close down his production company.[13]
In 2002, he was the chief executive of Artists Production
Group, the movie branch of Artist Management Group.[4] After
leaving APG in November 2003, he created Atmosphere Entertainment together with
Mark Kimsey, an investment manager. The aims were to produce films and
television programming.[14] With
this company, he produced blockbusters such as 300, Immortals, and The Spiderwick Chronicles. In his
roles as executive, chairman, and producer, Canton has been involved in over
300 major Hollywood productions.