![]() ![]() Six months prior, Smith had become America’s punchline when, at the age of twenty-six, she’d married the eighty-nine-year-old billionaire, J. However, by the time this sequel to one of PM’s more muted affairs, Da Vinci’s War (1993), went before the cameras in December 1994, Smith was in pretty bad shape. came calling with the offer of a lead role in their next direct-to-video action extravaganza, To the Limit (1995), Smith decided that it might be the route into movies that she was looking for. Smith had risen to fame a couple of years earlier after appearing on the cover of Playboy magazine in March 1992, and in the wake of some high-profile work for Guess, her voluptuous figure was adorning GQ and Marie Claire by ’93.Īcting aspirations came to the fore but the silver screen spluttered for Smith, with a couple of minor roles in The Hudsucker Proxy (1994) and Naked Gun 33 1/3 (1994) that never really led to anything. That was just a disaster.”Ī creative disaster, perhaps, but in terms of commercial appeal, Merhi and his business partner Richard Pepin knew exactly what they were doing. And with the Anna Nicole Smith movie, well, you could write a whole book on that. They gave us a sheet that said “five minutes of story, ten minutes of action, ten minutes of story, five minutes of action” – a template! So we tried to follow it. I just dropped out and began working for them.” Roberts, Tiger Heart (1996), so that’s how I got started. He did, though, say he’d hire me to write this other movie with T.J. I had really wanted to be a screenwriter, and I had written a script which I brought to Joseph and he read it, liked it, but told me he didn’t want to make it. ![]() “A friend of my dad’s knew Joseph Merhi – they played tennis together, so I got a job as a second, second assistant director, which is basically a PA, on a bunch of PM movies. Hey, you’re either a fan of Son in Law (1993) or you’re not – and thankfully for Applegate, his Shore snub happened to lead to a more worthwhile opportunity: I was fired soon after though, because Pauly Shore asked me if I wanted an autograph and I said no!” The summer after my junior year at UCLA, I got a job as a production assistant on the Pauly Shore movie, Jury Duty (1995). I wanted to go to film school, but I didn’t quite have the grades. “I came to Los Angeles when my father was transferred here. “Yeah, I always wanted to be in film,” recalls Applegate. However, back in his college days at the University of California in the early ‘90s, he was desperate to break into the movie business. Dave chats with PM Entertainment scripter Bill Applegate and learns all about the chaotic circumstances around the shooting of this Anna Nicole Smith picture.Ĭurrently working as a producer for CNBC, Bill Applegate has been creating news channel content for the last two decades. ![]()
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