American Beauty (1999 film) "American Beauty" to the fledgling DreamWorks studio, which bought the script for $250,000, outbidding several other production bodies. DreamWorks financed the $15 million production and served as its North American distributor. "American Beauty" marked theater director Mendes' film debut; courted after his successful productions of the musicals "Oliver!" and "Cabaret", Mendes was only given the job after 20 others were considered and several A-list directors turned down the opportunity. Spacey was Mendes' first choice for the role of Lester, though DreamWorks urged him to consider better-known actors; similarly, the studio suggested several actors for the role of Carolyn until Mendes
Carolyn Zane and 1999. After what Zane refers to as the world's longest maternity leave, she went back to work as the launch author for Abingdon Press's "Quilts of Love" series. Her book, "Beyond the Storm", inspired by the Joplin/Tuscaloosa tornadoes, debuted October 2012. "*" Miss Prim's Untamable Cowboy (1997) List of romantic novelists Carolyn Zane Carolyn Pizzuti is an American author of romance novels under the pen name Carolyn Zane. She has also been published as Suzy Pizzuti. Carolyn was born to Douglas Owen Tope and Mary Patricia Willis and raised in Southern California. When she was five, her family, including