Anderson) gives instructions by cell phone two detectives turn up, speak standard TV cop show dialogue, and disappear a landlady (Ann Miller-yes, Ann Miller) wonders who the other girl is in Aunt Ruth's apartment Betty auditions the two girls climb in through a bedroom window, Nancy Drew style a rotting corpse materializes, and Betty and Rita have two lesbian love scenes so sexy you'd swear this was a 1970s movie, made when movie audiences liked sex. A movie director ( Justin Theroux) is told to cast an actress in his movie or be murdered a dwarf in a wheelchair (Michael J. As they try to piece her life back together, the movie introduces other characters. Rita doesn't remember anything, even her name. She crawls out of the wreckage on Mulholland Drive, stumbles down the hill, and is taking a shower in the aunt's apartment when Betty arrives. Rita ( Laura Elena Harring) is a voluptuous brunet who is about to be murdered when her limousine is front-ended by drag racers. I’m thrilled to have the opportunity to work with Steve and Marty to tell this poignant and entertaining life story.” Ebert was repped in the deal by IPG’s Joel Gotler and Brian Lipson.Betty ( Naomi Watts) is a perky blond, Sandra Dee crossed with a Hitchcock heroine, who has arrived in town to stay in her absent Aunt Ruth's apartment and audition for the movies. And as his memoir makes so clear, his story is also one of great personal struggle and triumph. Despite that he remains a vital voice in the film world and has more than 700,000 Twitter followers. “Roger’s life has so much to say about movies over the last 30 to 40 years. His personal life, detailed in the book, include bouts with alcohol and thyroid cancer that cost the critic his voice and parts of his jaw and shoulder. Ebert has been reviewing films for the Chicago Sun Times since l967 and on TV for four decades, and he was the first film critic to win a Pulitzer Prize. Garrett Basch is producing, Scorsese via his Sikelia banner and Zaillian via Film Rites are exec producing, and James’ Kartemquin Films also will produce in some capacity. Steve James, who directed the doc Hoop Dreams, will helm it. Martin Scorsese and Steve Zaillian are teaming to produce a documentary on Roger Ebert inspired by the film critic’s 2011 memoir Life Itself.
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