Biography
Writer Paul Attanasio was a film critic for The Washington Post from 1984 to 1987. He started writing for television with the CBS sitcom Doctor Doctor and the NBC crime drama Homicide: Life on the Street. In 1994 he turned to feature films to write several Oscar-nominated screenplay adaptations: the drama
Quiz Show (book by Richard Goodwin), the thrillers
Disclosure and
Sphere (books by
Michael Crichton), the gangster movie
Donnie Brasco (book by Joseph Pistone), and the political thriller
The Sum of All Fears (book by Tom Clancy). Working back in television, he started executive producing in addition to writing the medical drama
Gideon's Crossing and the pilot for R.U.S.H. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide