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UP CLOSE & PERSONAL – Thomas Newman

March 26, 2026 Leave a comment

THROWBACK THIRTY

Up Close & Personal is a romantic drama film directed by Jon Avnet that sought to turn the then-incandescent star power of Robert Redford and Michelle Pfeiffer into Hollywood gold. The film was written by husband-and-wife team Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne – highly acclaimed, prize-winning journalists – and was originally intended to be an adaptation of Golden Girl: The Story of Jessica Savitch, a 1988 book about the troubled life of American news anchor Jessica Savitch. However, over the course of many years and numerous revisions, the film was altered substantially to the point that the finished product bears almost no resemblance to Savitch’s life. Read more…