Indie starlet Chloe Sevigny — who currently stars in Woody Allen's new film, Melinda and Melinda — is no stranger to risky roles. (The Brown Bunny, anyone?) Her next TV project might win her more controversy than she bargained for, however.
"I'm about to do a TV show for HBO called Big Love," says the 31-year-old actress. "It's a modern-day, Six Feet Under-like drama about a Mormon fundamentalist family.
"The family has three wives," Sevigny continues. "I play the middle wife and I grew up in the community on a compound. My father, played by the great Harry Dean Stanton, is the community's prophet, so my character has a bit of an ego trip going on. She thinks she's a princess because her father is this important man. And [she's] stuck i
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Throughout his 40 year career as New York City's preeminent filmmaker, Woody Allen has worked with a rotating cast of actors, cinematographers and producers. One thing that hasn't changed, however, is the way he writes his scripts.
"I still lie down on the bed and write the screenplay by hand on a yellow pad," says the legendary writer-director, who will turn 70 in December. "I can write faster that way. I was taught on a typewriter and it would probably be healthier for me to do it that way. Invariably, I have to type the scripts myself when I finish writing them, and that takes three days. But it goes so much faster when you write on a pad; you can hear the dialogue in your head."
Allen's latest film, Melinda and Melinda, currently in limited release, grew out of an idea he'd been bouncing around inside his head for years. The movie presents one story told in two differen
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