Kathleen Turner and Michael Douglas star in"Romancing the Stone" , part of the Music Box Theatre's April 13-19 retrospective"Crackerjack Compass: The Works of Robert Zemeckis." That’s easy. He’s a technological wizard, an unsettling populist, a shameless heartwarmer, a blackhearted satirist, an Oscar winner, a frequent financial and critical disappointment and, to many, an abiding inspiration.
He texted Morris, marveling at how different it seemed now. “Will texted me back, saying, ‘You’re insane. Stop texting me. I’ve gotta get some sleep.’” But eventually, Morris re-watched it and was, in his word, “floored.” Zemeckis’ parents weren’t sold on his plans to conquer Hollywood. “There is a healthy cynicism that is bred into you,” he told an interviewer years ago, “when you grow up on the South Side of Chicago. I mean, you know, my father never, never paid for a traffic violation. It was always fixed. That was the way life was. That kind of Mayor Daley corruption … being grounded in the harsh realities of real life helped me a lot in Hollywood.