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Writer: Basic Instinct. Joe Eszterhas was born on 23 November 1944 in Csakanydoroszlo, Hungary. He is a writer and producer, known for Basic Instinct (1992), Showgirls (1995) and Sliver (1993). He has been married to Naomi Baka since 30 July 1994.
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Mar 30, 2022 · These days, Eszterhas, now 78, is living happily in his hometown of Cleveland, Ohio, where he’s working on a novel, Refugee, about the immigrant experience. He spoke recently with The A.V. Club ...
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In 1989, Eszterhas planned to leave Creative Artists Agency because an old friend Guy McElwaine was restarting his agency. Michael Ovitz, then the chairman of CAA, threatened to prevent CAA actors from acting in Eszterhas' future projects. Eszterhas penned a letter to Ovitz blasting him for his tactics.
May 30, 1993 · As Guy McElwaine, his agent at International Creative Management, points out, Mr. Eszterhas's life has become as lurid a psychosexual drama as his scripts, with Ms. Stone taking a role, in...
József Antal Eszterhás , credited as Joe Eszterhas, is a Hungarian-American writer. Born in Hungary, he grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, in the United States. After an early career as a journalist and editor, he entered the film industry. His first screenwriting credit was for the film F.I.S.T. . He co-wrote the script for Flashdance, which became one of the highest grossing films of 1983, and ...
Feb 8, 2004 · Eszterhas rehashes in great detail the ugly feud he had with Ovitz in 1989, when the screenwriter went public with the powerful agent's threat to destroy his career if he quit Ovitz's firm.
Apr 17, 2019 · In 1989, shortly after he sold his screenplay for “Basic Instinct" for $3 million, Eszterhas told his powerful agent, Michael Ovitz, he was leaving Creative Artists Agency to join a rival....
