It's hard to ask Neil Simon to write your idea.''
But it was such a personal idea, and anyone I would give it to would make it his own.
You're playing with fire when you tamper with a classic. ''I had no intention of writing the script myself.
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Martin, who saw the 1950 movie version starring Jose Ferrer on television when he was 12 years old and, for reasons he doesn't quite understand, never forgot it. ''I knew I could only play Cyrano if he were Americanized,'' says Mr. The odyssey that changed Rostand's 1897 poetic drama into a romantic comedy that is hip enough for the summer of 1987 began in Mr. Seventeenth-century France becomes an off-season ski resort in the state of Washington where Cyrano, played by Mr. Martin's much-praised screenplay, Roxane has an extra ''n,'' an ex-boyfriend, and one night in bed with Christian, renamed Chris. Only after he is mortally wounded does Cyrano tell Roxane the truth. During her years of mourning, Cyrano gallantly keeps the secret that it was he who wrote the love letters through which Christian wooed and won Roxane. Roxane flees to a nunnery after Christian, the beautiful man she loves, is killed in battle. Edmund Rostand's 19th-century French play ''Cyrano de Bergerac'' ends as a tragedy. Bales is, of course, Cyrano de Bergerac, the swordsman with a big nose who helps another man win the woman he himself loves, a woman who cannot bear ugliness. Bales in his screenplay for the current film, ''Roxanne.''Ĭ. Martin has written into the character of C. They echo the kind of large but by no means reckless gestures that Mr. The choices are bold but at the same time meticulous. There are no doors, and each white wall is dominated, almost totally covered, by the bold brush strokes of some huge painting - a Hockney, a Kline, a Noland. THE ROOMS IN STEVE MARTIN'S house flow into each other like tributaries joining a giant river.
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