Entertainment and Media Journalist

Thom Geier

1 article 1996

Thom Geier is a journalist and entertainment writer who has worked as an editor and reporter for publications including Entertainment Weekly and TheWrap. He contributed to The Weekly Standard in 1996.

STONEY END

May 13, 1996 · Blog

In the 1992 Hollywood satire The Player, a studio bigwig played by Tim Robbins endures a pitch from an auteur wannabe for a prospective work titled Habeas Corpus, about a woman on death row and the district attorney who falls in love with her but is unable to save her. The pitch represents a bid to…