Jerry Bruckheimer told me, ‘I’m never going to work with you again.’ And then he worked with me again the next year.”Īlso Read: Jerry Bruckheimer's Longtime Paramount Deal Will Not Be Renewedĭiane Warren and Steven Tyler / courtesy of Diane Warrenġ998: “I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing” from ‘Armageddon’ 1 country record and won a Grammy, and LeAnn’s was the biggest record ever by a female artist. And people stopped hating me because they both became hits. “I called Curb Records and talked them into putting it out, and the two records came out at exactly the same time. Jerry Bruckheimer hated me and Trisha hated me and the LeAnn record wasn’t even going to come out. I said, ‘Yeah, as long as LeAnn can put the record out, too.’ He said yeah, but then he suddenly said, ‘No, you have to pull it from LeAnn.’ I couldn’t do that, and everybody kind of hated me. “So Jerry took the song to Trisha Yearwood and asked me if that was OK. But LeAnn’s dad, Wilbur, was like, ‘I’m not changing nothing for them Hollywood people!’ He wouldn’t budge. It was too country, I guess, for the movie. And then I played it for Jerry Bruckheimer, and he didn’t like the production. I said, ‘Hey, I wrote a song - do you want to hear it and demo it? She loved the song and recorded it and did a big expensive video. “I guess there were a lot of people writing songs for ‘Con Air,’ and I had written ‘How Do I Live.’ I ran into LeAnn Rimes at a restaurant when she was 14 and had just won Best New Artist at the Grammys.
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The Simon West movie produced by Jerry Bruckheimer was Warren’s first time working with the producer. Lost to: “My Heart Will Go On” from “Titanic” Performed by: Trisha Yearwood (and LeAnn Rimes) “It was one of the two times I went to the Oscars thinking I was going to win, and I remember being bummed out when I didn’t.” It’s become a big wedding song for a lot of father-daughter dances, and also a big funeral song. My mom was like, ‘What are you doing? Can you take your songs to Ralphs and get groceries?’ But my dad was more of a dreamer, and he always believed - he got me a subscription to Billboard and would take me to publishers and encourage me. And I thought, ‘Let me write a song about somebody who saw something in you that nobody else saw and really lifted you up.’ It was a chance for me to thank my dad, because he really believed in me when I decided to be a songwriter. “At the end of the movie he dies and she’s talking about what he meant to her.
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Robert Redford and Michelle Pfeiffer have a May-December romance in Jon Avnet’s drama set in the world of TV journalism. I wonder how many mannequins have gotten married to it by now.”Īlso Read: Oscars Song Contenders on 'Common Thread' Through Their Songs: 'A Need to Be Heard and Seen' (Video)ġ996: “Because You Loved Me” from “Up Close and Personal” “But the movie became kind of a guilty pleasure, and the song lived on, too. So we went to some department stores, and I left Albert alone with the mannequins… No, just kidding. I wrote it with my friend Albert Hammond, and the idea was to write a big wedding anthem for the end of the movie. How about that? But he does marry her, so he makes an honest mannequin out of her. “My first nominated song is basically about a guy who f-s a mannequin. Warren had a few pop hits before writing this theme for the comedy about a young man (Andrew McCarthy) who falls for a department-store mannequin that comes to life. Lost to: “(I’ve Had) The Time of My Life” from “Dirty Dancing” 1987: “Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now” from “Mannequin”
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