Kate Middleton has had abdominal surgery in London and won’t be seen in public for months.
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Zack Sharf Digital News Director The career of Scott Frank got a lengthy deep dive courtesy of a profile in The New Yorker that revealed the writer-director has a $300,000 weekly fee as a Hollywood script doctor. Frank acknowledges this fee is “insane,” but being a script doctor is how he’s made a life for himself despite being a credited screenwriter on films by Steven Soderbergh (“Out of Sight”), Barry Sonnenfield (“Get Shorty”), James Mangold (“The Wolverine,” “Logan”) and more.
He’s also the Emmy-winning writer and director of Netflix’s “The Queen’s Gambit.” Plus, $300,000 a week feels earned after putting the finishing touches on nearly 60 films, including “Saving Private Ryan,” “Night at the Museum,” “Unfaithful,” “The Ring,” “Gravity” and “a lot of the X-Men movies.” A “script doctor” is the term given to a screenwriter hired to punch up or reshape a pre-existing script, be it smoothing out a messy third act or overhauling the dialogue to make a character more memorable. This screenwriter will often go uncredited, although Frank’s work punching up the script for Steven Spielberg’s “Minority Report” ended up being so extensive that he got an official credit alongside original writer Jon Cohen.
Frank is responsible for deepening Tom Cruise’s character in the film by leaning more into his grief as a man who lost his child. “90% of what I get called in on is character work,” Frank told The New Yorker about his script doctor requests.
Per The New Yorker: “In ‘Saving Private Ryan,’ he helped round out such soldiers as the Scripture-quoting sniper, giving them active connections with people back home. In ‘The Ring,’ he developed the relationship between the protagonist, played by Naomi Watts, and her son.
Kate Middleton has had abdominal surgery in London and won’t be seen in public for months.
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Sarah Ferguson has "remained fiercely loyal" to her ex-husband Prince Andrew, a royal expert said.The Duke of York hit headlines today (Thursday, 4 December) after court documents, relating to convicted paedophile and sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, were released which named Prince Andrew. Last month, US Judge Loretta Preska ruled that documents naming more than 170 people who were either associates, friends or victims of Epstein should be made public.The recently released court documents named Prince Andrew, Bill Clinton and Michael Jackson.
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