Word: cues
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There is no contradiction between Hitchcock' canny conservatism and his directorial eminence profit and honor went hand in glove. Even his brief cameo appearances (silhouetted in the neon skyline of Rope, for example) are a playful cue to the viewer to watch every frame for tricks and revelations. The qualities that made him the world's best-known moviemaker were precisely the ones that made him one of the best film artists...
...professor whose CUE ratings are consistently among the school's highest and whose interest in teaching is unmatched, such sensationalized publicity hardly, seems deserved. If the present editorial board is as concerned about the quality of undergraduate teaching as it claims, their it should put its pens where its mouths are Such journalistic mudslinging directed at dedicated professors is an odd way to facilitate that goal...
...students than he is on professional musicians. Through 17 rehearsals he painstakingly explores every bar without the use of a score, allowing no detail to escape his attention. "How many bars in the new tempo do you have?" he demands of an errant celesta player. "I was taking my cue from the harp," she explains. Says Celibidache: "The harp was perfect. You came in too soon...
...WATER is not too cold, the acting is almost consistently so. Johnson, as the sultry Jennifer-older and more experienced than her 15 years-delivers her lines as if she were reading them from cue cards that were too far away. She seems uncomfortable in front of the camera, even while initiating her seduction of Matthew, Joseph Bologna, as her father, plays the part of an insensitive boor with excessive mannerisms and a loud voice. Michael Caine, in turn, seems constantly confused, as if he was just thrust in front of the camera and attempting to regain his composure. Caine...
Repeatedly she refused to accept last-minute changes in scripts. To one importunate composer she snapped: "Call me Miss Birds Eye. It's frozen." Yet she could ad-lib with the best. During a performance of Annie Get Your Gun, a prop rifle misfired but, on cue, a bird fell from the rafters. Without missing a beat, Merman held up the dead bird and remarked, "What do you know? Apoplexy...