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Joe Eszterhas
Birth at
23 November 1944
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Joe Esterhaz was born on November 23, 1944 in a city with a difficult to pronounce (and not only for English) name Shakanidorozhko. It's somewhere in Hungary. He began as a journalist and was a reporter for Rolling Stone until he wrote Charlie Simpson’s Apocalypse in 1974. Hollywood put an eye on the book and, although the novel was never filmed, it served as a pass to the abode of screenwriters. Joe Esterhaz is known for the fact that his scripts put films, as a rule, criminal, marked by sexuality,
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Joe Esterhaz was born on November 23, 1944 in a city with a difficult to pronounce (and not only for English) name Shakanidorozhko. It's somewhere in Hungary. He began as a journalist and was a reporter for Rolling Stone until he wrote Charlie Simpson’s Apocalypse in 1974. Hollywood put an eye on the book and, although the novel was never filmed, it served as a pass to the abode of screenwriters.
Joe Esterhaz is known for the fact that his scripts put films, as a rule, criminal, marked by sexuality, mysticism and highly artistic language. For example,
"serrated blade" or
"Basic instinct". Never shying away from high-profile scandals, Esterhaz is always at war in the press with producers, directors, agents and even with crime bosses (especially after writing a script based on the biography of John Gotti). To the censors, Esterhaz's name is like a red rag to a bull.
The more amusing that the loudest scandal he made with Paul Verhoeven, trying to persuade the latter to lower the temperature of the hot scenes with sex and violence in "Basic Instinct". Again, it was Esterhaz who ridiculed Senator Bob Dole’s call to purge Hollywood of “heresy,” saying that the political blunders of the Nixon, Reagan, and Bush administrations were far more obscene than those found in “R” films (something like “children under twelve...”).