Myles Aronowitz

Tony Gilroy
Writer on the Verge

WHY HIM The only writer to work on all three Bourne films makes his directorial debut with Michael Clayton, a legal drama featuring George Clooney as a tarnished law-firm ''fixer.''

BIG BREAK Gilroy's first produced script was the ice-skating classic The Cutting Edge. ''That movie lives on, I can't even tell you,'' says Gilroy, who's the brother-in- law of Rene Russo. ''My nieces tell me all the time, 'Oh,we had a slumber party, and we watched The Cutting Edge!'''

SECRET TALENT ''I'm using everything I got.''