THE HOWLING
Directed by Joe Dante
Screenplay by John Sayles and Terence H. Winkless
ALLIGATOR
Directed by Lewis Teague
Screenplay by John Sayles
Such is the cultural currency of Hollywood that anyone who can read his mail is called a man of letters, and the person who knows that filet de sole isn't a French disco group joins the intellectual elite. By these standards—and some higher—John Sayles is a Renaissance man. At 25, an O. Henry short-story award; at 28, a National Book Award nomination; at 29, critical praise and a measure of commercial success...