Eszterhas finds peace in suburbia
May 12th, 2004
By Joe Milicia
Associated Press
CHAGRIN FALLS -- Joe Eszterhas has traded the cliffs of Malibu, fights over script changes and a bad-boy reputation for five snow-covered acres, Sunday church services and Little League games in Cleveland suburbia.
The screenwriter of the lurid hit Basic Instinct and the X-rated bomb Showgirls no longer walks into meetings with Hollywood executives carrying a 6-inch knife, ready to battle.
His routine now consists of getting the kids off to school and greeting them with hugs and high-fives when they get off the bus in the afternoon.
The move back to his hometown three years ago provided a more wholesome place to raise his four sons. It also ended up saving his life, Eszterhas says, by giving him the freedom to overcome his excessive smoking and drinking after he was diagnosed with throat cancer.
Eszterhas, who has recently released his memoir, spends a lot of time with his wife, Naomi, and their sons, attending Little League games, playing pingpong in the basement of their white colonial in Bainbridge Twp. and going out for meals at Denny's or Bob Evans.
A former reporter for The Journal Herald, Eszterhas started with the Dayton paper in 1965 as a summer intern before his senior year at Ohio University, where he was editor of the campus newspaper, The Post.
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