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“When we first turned in the script, one executive called and said, ‘He’s just so unlikable,’” laughs Mitch Glazer, co-writer of 1988’s dark festive favorite Scrooged, a film where ...
EXCLUSIVE: WME has signed Mitch Glazer, the veteran screenwriter who ... and his scripting credits include Scrooged and Great Expectations. Related stories ‘True Blood’s Stephen Moyer Tied ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about film, the arts, and design. Scrooged, the modern-day take on Charles Dickens' classic A Christmas Carol as ...
We have to assume that at one point Glazer started checking the week’s listings and made a habit of putting his phone on Do ...
6. Scrooged was a Saturday Night Live reunion of sorts. The script for Scrooged was written by Mitch Glazer and Michael O'Donoghue, whom Murray had worked with in the early days of Saturday Night ...
The series is a creation of Mitch Glazer, the screenwriter (The Recruit, Scrooged) and occasional V.F. contributor, who, with Magic City, is returning to TV for the first time since a stint at ...
Michael O’Donoghue—the hard-edged SNL writer who co-wrote Scrooged with Mitch Glazer—disavowed the movie before he died, saying the script was much funnier than what ended up on the screen.
Mitch Glazer and Mickey Rourke ... But I didn’t write for him until Scrooged, 10 years later. That’s what I’ve been trying to tell your boss. We know how difficult it is to get a movie ...
In the 1960s and '70s, Mitch Glazer was just your average Miami Beach ... in L.A., where he wrote screenplays for movies such as Scrooged and Great Expectations. He thought Magic City would ...
Bill Murray and screenwriter Mitch Glazer have known each other for decades -- since Murray played the lead in Glazer’s “Scrooged” in 1988. And now the two are partnering again on a project ...
Amid the Christmas movies that overindulge in the manufactured magic of the season, there's one that gets the sentiment (though not much else) right.