In Nancy Hass’s New York Times profile of producer Scott Rudin (Sunday, 11.7), it’s reported that Rudin “has told a few insiders that he has been offered the top job at Miramax.” Whoa…where did that come from? Is this for real, or is Rudin making a point? “I know that movies are basically meant to be entertainment, but I’m not that interested in entertainment,” Rudin (Closer, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou) also tells Hass. She also writes, “[Rudin] claims to be driven by what he calls a ‘hugely romantic view of talent’ and the need, at least sometimes, to say ‘something absolutely worthwhile.'”
