Journalist Travels a Long, Winding Road to Tinseltown

Forward, February, 2005 by Sanders, Gabriel

Sanders, Gabriel Forward 02-04-2005 At the start of her new book, an examination of the careers of six American filmmakers who rose to prominence in the 1990s, Sharon Waxman notes how difficult it was for her to persuade "control-conscious artists" to open up about themselves. Though no doubt more accommodating than the subjects of her book -- Quentin Tarantino, Steven Soderbergh, David O.

Russell, David Fincher, Spike Jonze and Paul Thomas Anderson -- Waxman, too, became guarded when a reporter's questions moved from her work to herself. Between fielding phone calls for an article she was writing -- Waxman is The New York Times's Hollywood correspondent -- and preparing for the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, where her book, "Rebels on the ...

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