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The-one of the odd things that's going on with smoking these days is that in the '90s, smoking at movies in the '90s, there were more movies showing smoking than there were in the '60s.
Joe Eszterhas
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Joe Eszterhas
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: November 23
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All has changed, thanks to Joe Eszterhas' life-threatening battle with throat cancer. He announced in The New York Times that he and Hollywood had blood on their hands and now Eszterhas is crusading to stop Hollywood's glamorization of smoking.
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There are certainly a lot of sins to be taken on. To take on smoking and movies is a weighty enough thing, I think, and it's one I've experienced, and it's what's caused me to live in-with my voice maimed for the rest of my life.
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From a writing point of view, you now have teams of screenwriters working with a director. What's lost in the process is the power of that one heart, brain, gut and soul that makes something an original piece of writing.
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I think the main issue is that a lot of the stars today are very addicted, and they simply feel more comfortable smoking as they act.
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Anyone I think who - that would go through a cancer ward and would see the result of what smoking does, would never, ever think of smoking is sexy again.
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Don't smoke. Don't kill yourselves. Don't maim yourselves. Tell your friends. Please don't smoke.
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I will focus on smoking in movies and with the amount of time that I have left in the world, I will do the best I can to stop smoking in movies and also to help people stop smoking, just normal ordinary people who may need help.
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I have always been fascinated by the corruption of power.
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Let's make Joe Lieberman accountable for his rhetoric. Not a penny more until he 'clarifies' his position to the satisfaction of our creative freedom.
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I just wanted to make sure that what I write is what appears on screen, to not have some idiot change it on its way to the screen.
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I have only one loyalty - to my writing. I never wanted to be the head of a studio or a producer.
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That's sort of what I felt... I miss drinking, I thought bars were truly holy places.
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I was surprised by how warm the response was, even among studio heads, who said they really, we do have to do something about glamourization of smoking.
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You must show how gruesome that death is because if you don't, then you turn into some kind of comic book and pain, then death, doesn't have a consequence, and pain doesn't have a consequence.
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Politics has become entertainment.
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Before I would view Rob Reiner as this really annoying pest. Every time he'd come on TV or talking about smoking, I found my blood pressure go up. I just met-really met Rob for the first time last week and told him how much I admire him. He's done more than anyone else in the industry.
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Joe Lieberman was threatening censorship. What I'm arguing is that if the creative people in Hollywood themselves have a responsibility, have a moral responsibility in terms of smoking, not to show smoking in movies.
Joe Eszterhas
I had read too many memoirs that were written after the writer or the director was past his or her prime.
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Meanwhile, politics is about getting a candidate in front of the public as a star, politics as rock'n'roll, politics as a movie.
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I think to put death on screen where it isn't that turns it into comic book time and there I think by desensitizing an audience, you really do open the possibility that someone is going to kill.
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