Screenwriters

SCOTT ALEXANDER and LARRY KARASZEWSKI (Screenwriters) first met as roommates in their freshman year at the University of Southern California. On a whim, they decided to write a screenplay during their senior year, which sold a week after they graduated from USC's School of Cinema.

They are best known for writing very unusual biopics. They wrote the highly-acclaimed Ed Wood, for which they were nominated for Best Screenplay by the Writers Guild. They followed this with The People vs. Larry Flynt, which was directed by Milos Forman. For this, they won the Golden Globe for Best Screenplay, as well as a special Writers Guild award for constitutional and civil rights and liberties. The scripts to Ed Wood, Larry Flynt and Man on the Moon have been published in book form.

While Man on the Moon was filming, Alexander and Karaszewski were in Vancouver making their directorial debut on the comedy Foolproof, which they also wrote. Through creative scheduling, actors Norm Macdonald and Danny DeVito appear in both films. Universal Pictures will release Foolproof in 2000.

Alexander and Karaszewski's other writing credits include That Darn Cat, Problem Child and Problem Child 2. The Problem Child films were subsequently spun off into a cartoon series and TV movie.

Alexander, a native of Los Angeles, started his Hollywood career toiling on low-budget horror films as a music editor. As a director, his work has appeared on MTV and Nickelodeon and his short films have won numerous awards. He has written for HBO's Tales From the Crypt and the television series Monsters, which he also directed.

Karaszewski, who was born and raised in South Bend, Indiana, worked as a film critic for an NBC affiliate's nightly news program before writing and directing Beyond Our Control, a weekly half-hour satirical television show. The Midwest-based series won the Grand Prix Award for television at the Chicago International Film Festival.