talking dogs

[MantaRay at aol.com]

Dougie-Fresh says:

>Just picking one little nit -- you say of Will Smith, "The screenwriter let
>him have a field day with the dialogue" -- I wasn't on the set of this
>film, but it would generally be the director who makes that sort of
>decision, in general screenwriters have very little power or control over
>the making of the movies they write, basing this statement on the
>experiences of some friends who work as screenwriters in Hollywood.

Uh, no. I read an interview with the screenwriter who said Smith ad-libbed a
line that he could never have written for him: "It be raining black people in
New York". The director let him run with it. I read this. Last time I
checked, my eyes were working fine. He then went on to describe the process
as one in which Sir Will was allowed to improvise. 

MantaRay, really really drunk (I mean sauced!)