Between shooting The Godfather and The Godfather part 2, Coppola shot The Conversation. In the middle of writing Miller’s Crossing, the Coen Brothers took a break and wrote Barton Fink. After filming the beginning of Cast Away, with a slightly overweight Tom Hanks, production stopped for a year, giving Hanks time to get down to his desert island weight. Robert Zemeckis directed What Lies Beneath during the hiatus, then finished Cast Away. In the midst of his 40 years working on the tomb of Julius II, Michelangelo stopped for four years and knocked off the Sistine Chapel ceiling. In 1984, Cynthia Nixon appeared in David Rabe’s Hurlyburly and Tom Stoppard’s The Real Thing on Broadway on the same night, starting the evening with act one of one play, then walking two blocks to the other theater for the second half of the next.

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