Sidney Aaron News Today

Before All That Jazz, Bob Fosse wanted to make a King Kong sequel with his buddy Paddy Chayefsky. Matt Zoller Seitz considers the monstrous possibilities.

Concerning the potential closing of Arkansas State Universitys multimedia journalism program, this turn of events might best be characterized by the grammatically incorrect phrase made recognizable through its use in "Network," the 1976 motion picture written by the late playwright, screenwriter and novelist Sidney Aaron "Paddy" Chayefsky: "Woe is us."

The DH Lawrence classic inexorably leads to violent UK theatre, a stunning John Barry soundtrack and the erotic thriller Body Heat

Altered States is a 1980 movie directed by British filmmaker Ken Russell. It deals with an American scientist, Eddie Jessup (played by William Hurt and ...

Making Ken Russell’s psychedelic sci-fi classic not only warped Hurt's brain – it changed the course of his career

In December 1980,  Altered States attempted to use the powers of the previous two decades to make a sci-fi masterpiece, but ended up making a lovable bizarrerie that heralded the onset of the 80s. The film was the brainchild of renowned screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky ( The Hospital, Network), who purportedly wanted to rewrite the Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde story as a Hollywood vehicle to sell to producer Dino De Laurentiis. Chayefsky worked up a treatment for the screenplay, but was encouraged ...

In December 1980,  Altered States attempted to use the powers of the previous two decades to make a sci-fi masterpiece, but ended up making a lovable bizarrerie that heralded the onset of the 80s. The film was the brainchild of renowned screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky ( The Hospital, Network), who purportedly wanted to rewrite the Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde story as a Hollywood vehicle to sell to producer Dino De Laurentiis. Chayefsky worked up a treatment for the screenplay, but was encouraged ...