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'Rebels' without a backlot.(appreciating the talent)(Brief article)

Variety,  September, 2006  by Zeitchik, Steven

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They were supposed to conquer Hollywood. But 10 years after their promising bows, upstart filmmakers David O. Russell, David Fincher, Paul Thomas Anderson and Spike Jonze aren't generating as many sparks as expected. Those four, along with Steven Soderbergh and Quentin Tarantino, were pegged--in numerous magazine articles and New York Times reporter Sharon Waxman's "Rebels on the Backlot"--as talents who would beat the studios at their own game.

"Despite the deadening crush of the studio system, their talent could not be denied, their visions could not be ...

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