[PW] Ghost-Written Famous Quotations

[Beuerlein, Pat (Edm Journal)]

	>  Fred specifically brought up the possibility of actors rather
> >  than screenwriters being credited with famous lines because they
     >  ad-libbed them,

The credited writers of Beverly Hills Cop got a 1984 Academy Award 
nomination for Writing (Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen) -- 
Screenplay by Daniel Petrie, Jr.; Story by Danilo Bach, Daniel Petrie, Jr. 
(according to http://awardsdatabase.oscars.org). I remember news 
articles at the time discussing whether the nomination was deserved 
and whether they had much chance of winning the Oscar, since comedian 
Eddie Murphy, the film's star, was widely credited with ad-libbing or 
adding to the script, without credit, many of his character's best lines.

Our full-text database doesn't go back that far, but some of these articles 
could be in LexisNexis.

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