1.   Few movie biographies cite Ralph Waldo Emerson, G.K. Chesterton, Vladimir Nabokov, Bernard DeVoto, and Murray Kempton.

2.   In an epiphany tailor-made for a movie biography, she appeared humiliatingly as a lounge act in a hotel that had once featured her in its main room.

3.   Jodie Foster is planning a movie biography.

4.   Movie biographies of artists tend to promote the romance-novel proposition that most great art has its inspiration in tormented love.

5.   Similarly, Fox, which had been racing with ABC to broadcast a movie biography of Muhammad Ali, has now postponed its film indefinitely.

6.   The problem with the classic Hollywood movie biography is that it tries to do too much -- encompassing a whole life in six reels.