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...number of women in the sciences decreases even more in graduate school and the work force, says Susan C. Arnott, program coordinator and director of Science Alliance, a first-year orientation program for females interested in science and mathematics...
...matic thrillers and yet, unlike the Hot Shots! Part Deux school of pure movie lampoons, tries also to be an earnest explode- o-matic thriller. It is a very fine line. "Every moment of every day," says screenwriter Shane Black, of working on the script with his partner David Arnott, "we looked at each other and said, 'This isn't Naked Gun.' " Black, who wrote Lethal Weapon and The Last Boy Scout, says, "I hate action movies," but he also maintains that the new film is "a heartfelt example" of the genre. Sort of. For instance, the villainous android...
WRITERS: ZAK PENN, ADAM LEFF, SHANE BLACK AND DAVID ARNOTT...
Columbia Pictures, anxious about its huge investment, quickly sent in the spin doctors. The studio did get "slightly panicked" at the preview, says co-writer David Arnott. "Clearly the movie was too long, and the jokes needed timing tweaks. But a lot of people liked it." The new sequence was just "Arnold never giving up on anything," says director John McTiernan. "He guilted us all into shooting it." Now he has to hope that, oh, 40 million Americans will be guiled or guilted into seeing...
...Arnott, in order to squeeze the maximum wit out of Coward's insipid manuscript, has worked out what appears to be a second-by-second computer program for verbal inflections, facial contortions, physical maneuvers, and furniture kicking. During the extensive arguments and love bouts of Elyot and Amanda, the play's spirited and engaging cynics, the precise sense of timing turns insults, cigarette lighting, and record smashing into high comic art. At times, Arnott's exhaustive direction and his actors' slavish execution reaches self-parody: it is worthwhile, during the course of the play, to study carefully the director...