![]() I know it's a broad topic, but it's an urgent topic whether you know it or not, a topic that's at the heart of American entertainment today.' And on and on she rolls. We're making the Otis Redding biopic that the studio over there is-right, that's the one. `Vanessa Meandro here with Means of Production. Overhearing Vanessa pitch the project over the telephone to the head of a television network is a delusionary five-page-long event in itself. And it's staffed by an ambitious and geeky and funny bunch of characters.ĭesperate for ideas, a few of them cook up a delirious treatment for a miniseries about the origin of divining for water that begins with the hordes of Genghis Khan and carries us through medieval Europe and on to the days of the Nazis and eventually to our own shores. It's headed by the hugely overweight Italian-American Vanessa Meandro, a genius of a woman with a delusionary mother and an addiction to Krispy Kreme doughnuts. ![]() ![]() ![]() Means of Production is the name of the small New York-based movie company. Many moviegoers will remember the cinematic version of Rick Moody's novel "The Ice Storm." Moody's latest novel is "The Diviners." It's a satire about an independent movie company trying to produce a television miniseries based on a non-existent book. ![]()
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