Robert Fox (producer) production of "The Boy from Oz" starring Hugh Jackman which also recently finished a record-breaking tour of arenas in Australia; and "The Pillowman" by Martin McDonagh starring Billy Crudup and Jeff Goldblum. Fox is currently co-producing two new plays: on Broadway, "The Vertical Hour" by David Hare starring Julianne Moore and Bill Nighy, and in the West End, "Frost/Nixon" by Peter Morgan with Frank Langella and Michael Sheen at the Gielgud Theatre. Fox executive-produced the film of "Closer" (Columbia TriStar) directed by Mike Nichols and starring Julia Roberts, Jude Law, Clive Owen and Natalie Portman. Before that he produced "The
Melvin and Howard Melvin and Howard Melvin and Howard (stylized as Melvin (and Howard)) is a 1980 American comedy-drama film directed by Jonathan Demme. The screenplay by Bo Goldman was inspired by real-life Utah service station owner Melvin Dummar, who was listed as the beneficiary of $156 million in a will allegedly handwritten by Howard Hughes that was discovered in the headquarters of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City. A novelization of Goldman's script later was written by George Gipe. The film starred Paul Le Mat, Jason Robards and, in an Academy Award-winning performance, Mary Steenburgen. In