Paul Rudnick is a screenwriter and playwright. His plays include "I hate Hamlet", "Jeffrey", "The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told" and "Valhalla". He also writes for Premiere Magazine under the pseudonym "Libby Gelman-Waxler" Screenwriters, scenarists or script writers, are authors who write the screenplays from which movies and television programs are made. ...
Addams Family Values (1993) is a sequel to the 1991 comedy The Addams Family movie. ... Jeffrey (1995) is an American gay comedy movie directed by Christopher Ashley. ... In & Out, the 1997 movie starring Kevin Kline and Tom Selleck, was one of Hollywoods few attempts at a comedy gay movie. The film was inspired by Tom Hankss tearful speech when he accepted his 1994 Oscar (for his role in Philadelphia), in which he outed his high... The Stepford Wives is a 2004 comedy/science fiction film based on the Ira Levin novel The Stepford Wives. ... The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) is an online database of information about actors, films, television shows, television stars, video games and production crew personnel. ...
PaulRudnick is a rare anomaly in the literary world, someone people might call a "triple threat," for he is an accomplished screenwriter, playwright, and novelist.
Rudnick was born in Piscataway, New Jersey, in 1957.
Rudnick, as a gay male himself, understood the fear that permeated society and the character of Jeffrey.
PaulRudnick has a huge mouth, almost like a Muppet.
While Rudnick says Paramount Pictures meddled very little in what might have been a risky film to target at a mainstream audience, he admits the smooch made the studio suits nervous.
In "Jeffrey," the shock of a surprisingly passionate male-male lip-lock is defused by a seemingly random cut-away to two teenage couples, serving as a surrogate audience and reacting to the kiss in a movie theater.