Since the age of six, he has been "carrying them on my shoulders," and can rattle off a litany of loses and near misses. Although he is a successful playwright, he is fixated on failure, and the Red Sox are his chosen form of suffering. On the eve of the opening of his latest play, and also the night of the fateful game six of the world series in which his beloved Red Sox will fall to the Mets in the most inglorious way, Rogan gets caught in an all-day traffic jam that is a metaphor for his own internal confusion. Characters appear as if from off-stage and hold forth in wordy speeches more familiar to the theater. So anything can and does happen with a logic of its own. Things do not operate so much in the everyday world as the psychological realm where the inner life meets the street. In Game 6, DeLillo has adapted the hyper-real, postmodern style he fashioned for novels like Underworld and The Body Artist for his first screenplay. Others may wonder what the fuss is about. For audiences prepared to take the leap of faith and accept the unusual tone of the film, Game 6 should be a winner. It attempts to walk the fine line between despair and comedy, reality and imagination, and often succeeds. Game 6, written by novelist Don Delillo and directed by Michael Hoffman, is a fanciful journey into Rogan's heart of darkness. And since his team is the Boston Red Sox circa 1986, that means his life is about losing-big time. PARK CITY - For playwright Nicky Rogan ( Michael Keaton), baseball is life. Occupant, founded by producers Keith Calder, Felipe Marino and Joe Neurauter in August 2005, is in postproduction on Man, which stars Jack Davenport, Hugo Weaving, Brian Cox and Judy Greer. worldwide rights to its first film, the teen horror flick All the Boys Love Mandy Lane, for $3.5 million. The company scored big at September's Toronto International Film Festival by selling the Weinstein Co. World marks Himmelstein's second directorial effort after his writing-directing debut, the insurance salesman thriller The Key Man, also for Occupant. The project made its formal debut at the Sundance Institute Screenplay Reading Series, staged in New York in December 2004 with Jason Biggs, Shalom Harlow, Michelle Monaghan, Roy Scheider and Lili Taylor. Production is slated to begin in the summer. In World, Occupant's third feature, a tense gathering for a father's 70th birthday party falls apart over the seedy family revelations unearthed in one of his children's novels, titled Peep World. NEW YORK - Writer-director Peter Himmelstein's dark comedy Peep World, a script selected for the 2004 Sundance Screenwriters and Filmmakers Lab, is coming to the big screen from production/financing outfit Occupant Films. Comedy Central globe logo with buildings 16. Below, a final goodbye to the 90s to end the nostalgia once and for all. Times are tough and there's comfort in reflection, but enough is enough. It's been more than a decade since the 1990s ended, yet the Internet can't seem to go a day without a reminder of the neon slap bracelets that may have been banned from your school.
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