Word: actually
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...main concerns has been adapting the religious theme for the modern-day audience. He feels that Marlowe's play is "timeless," but found it necessary to remove the few historical references that do occur: "We cut and reorganized the script entirely in an effort to streamline the actual story--the result we hope, was a technically dazzling piece...
...Undoubtedly, much of the professional polish of the play stems from actual professionals' involvement. Arciniegas, who has been directing and performing in the Boston area for several years, lends a special poignancy to the complicated role of John Halder. The professional expertise is also apparent in Daniel Gidron's effective directing, although the efforts of student assistant director, stage managers, and producers, should be noted for their contributions to this extremely mature production. Especially effective is the sparse yet elegant set design of Glenn Reisch '00. Chairs, stairs, and banners form an aesthetically pleasing backdrop...
...This puffing up of retail lines is in a sense also a dumbing down of legitimate designer fashion, just as the mass repoduction of a famous work of art would blur one's conception of the actual thing. One wonders if fashion would be safer in a museum. Fashion is art, after all. If painting the nude is considered the highest of artistic genres, then clothing the body is in the least soft sculpture. One look at the designs of haute couturiers such as John Galliano for the House of Dior can't help but draw comparisions to the surrealism...
...Before shooting The Insider, Michael Mann sent a draft of the screenplay to "60 Minutes" anchor Mike Wallace, who expressed concern about Mann's streamlining of actual events. Upset about being portrayed as floundering morally next to Bergman's shining knight, Wallace fumed, "oh, how fortunate I am to have Lowell Bergman's moral tutelage to point me down the shining path." Mann turned right around, and had Wallace's fictional counterpart spout the same line in his film...
...thought YOU wasted time: the actual playing time during the average two and one half hour baseball game...