Word: characterizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Under the bold, sensitive direction of Jonathan Demme, Winfrey's Sethe is a creature as stern as she is strong--as much oak as flesh and blood. She moves with the heaviness of someone dragging large and fatal memories behind her like a full steamer trunk. She is, as the...
In late 1996, Winfrey sent LaGravenese's script to Demme. He read it on a Christmas vacation, called Winfrey and asked, "Now what do I have to do?" Finding a director was that simple. Making the movie was harder--not just re-creating Reconstruction-era Cincinnati in today's Philadelphia...
Elise could radiate; Winfrey had to seethe. "On the surface," Demme notes, "Sethe is stoic, immovable, but inside she's an inferno of emotions. Oprah had to find the exact way to communicate both of these things, and it was great theater every day watching her do it. There were...
What's in a name? If the name is Felicity, then a television show is in it--and not just any show, but the most highly anticipated new series of the season. J.J. Abrams, a screenwriter whose credits include Regarding Henry and Armageddon, was sitting on a beach in Bali...
Even a good idea, of course, must make one or two stops on its way from Bali to prime time. A few months after his honeymoon, Abrams was eating dinner with Reeves, an old friend. Both 32 and both from Los Angeles, they had met when they were 13 and...