Caffeinated Clint
Sad news to report today that, in addition to Jane Russell, we’ve also lost Gary Winick.
Winick, 49, the director of such films as “Charlotte’s Web”, “13 Going on 30” and “Letters to Juliet” died after a long battle with brain cancer.
Jennifer Garner, who worked with Winick on (what I believe is his best film; a really infectious and fun comedy) “13 Going on 30”, says “Gary and I had the most successful collaboration possible,” she tells Entertainment Weekly. “I don’t mean success in terms of box office, or from anyone else’s point of view other than my own. I left it better at what I do. He was one of the most inclusive people you could ever meet, and I was energized by our creative mess together everyday. From then on, there wasn’t a single project that I didn’t try to do with him.” “I think everybody who was a friend of Gary’s considered him one of their best friends. He had a hundred best friends. He just was unafraid of being intimate. And that spilled over into his directing. His whole company, InDigEnt, was based on trying to find a way to fold everyone in, being 100 percent invested in the movie, because they were going to profit from it if the movie was successful. “Even in a frothy romantic comedy, he found what was really human about a scene, or about a character, or about a moment. That’s not always easy or pretty. [While filming 13 Going on 30], he wasn’t afraid to bring the writer in and change the words completely and start again. So it was messy, but I loved every minute of it. I really, really loved him.”
Rest in Peace, Sir.
