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A handful might have led colorful existences, some are objects of interest because they died early, committed suicide, were related to (other) famous people, and so forth; but such information seldom reveals as much about their output as do the creations themselves, and in certain cases one is probably better off not knowing quite so much.
Lee, who has started his own advertising firm and is noted for his hyperbolic Nike commercials, is always selling something (I pat myself on the back for titling my Village Voice review of Lee's 1986 first feature, She's Gotta Have It , "Birth of a Salesman"), and his work is never sharper than when his characters are selling something, too--delivering some kind of spiel as if their very existences depended on it.
It has been suggested that SF include only those stories which would be invalidated without their scientific content; that fiction which concerns science, scientists, and the impact of science on humans; that which explores alternate existences (whether future, extraterrestrial, or only in characters' minds) based on facts and logical progression via scientific method.
Truman must leave the studio/world, Julia Roberts must escape the cameras (ditto Ed in EDTV ), the kids in Pleasantville are stuck in a "TV artifice of life and must break through it in order to get back to their real existences."