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- PEOPLE, Page 81Doubly Exposed Nerve
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- By GINIA BELLAFANTE
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- Many starving filmmakers would vow to name their firstborn
- Mike Ovitz just for a chance to sit down and sip some Evian
- with a representative of the almighty Creative Artists Agency.
- But reel twins ALBERT and ALLEN HUGHES, 20-year-olds from
- Pomona, California, don't think much of Hollywood's greatest
- dealmaking dynasty. At 19, the film-school dropouts decided
- their CAA handler was "stifling" their career, so they dumped
- her. "Our goal was to get a movie deal before we were 20," says
- Allen. Not easy. But today the Hugheses, who've been making
- films since the sagacious age of 12, have nearly finished their
- first feature. Due this spring, Menace II Society is a story
- about two inner-city boys who grow up without father figures.
- New Line Cinema grabbed the idea shortly after the L.A. riots
- and had the boys shoot the film on a meager $2.5 million budget.
- Says Allen confidently: "Next time we'll have more money and
- more tricks."
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