Movie
1996
Up Close & Personal is a 1996 American romantic drama film directed by Jon Avnet from a screenplay written by Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne. It stars Robert Redford as a news director and Michelle Pfeiffer as his protégée, with Stockard Channing, Joe Mantegna, and Kate Nelligan in supporting roles.
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Hollywood can do many things, but telling a true story is not one of them. At least this is the impression given by the way Hollywood handled the script based on the tragic life of popular news anchor Jessica Savitch. The material covered in the book *Almost Golden* (adapted into TV-film in 1995) was deemed too depressive by Disney executives, so scriptwriters Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne had to change the nam…More
