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...their power to stimulate the viewers' imaginations: once the audience no longer had to imagine voices, it ceased to be an active "creative contributor to the process of making a film." Hollywood: The Pioneers offers powerful support for that belief, including a 1928 photo that draws the curtain on an adventurous, fatally innocent era: as a group of bored technicians look on MGM's fabled trademark, Leo the lion, roars into a microphone for the very first time...
...SHOW NEEDS a hook. It doesn't have to grab the audience immediately, but somewhere along the way, a clear idea must take shape. Once an audience becomes hooked, the show can start to move, and the spectators will stay with it until the final curtain, when it releases them. If a show has no clear idea backing it, the cast and crew end up carrying a dead weight. Sometimes a highly talented group of performers and techs manages to breathe life into a show that can't stand on its own feet. More often, as in After Hours...
WITH THE POISE EXPECTED of a fine actor, the performer recites his final line and exits, stage right, to the thunderous applause of his audience. Only there is no curtain, just a podium on a platform, and the orator heads not backstage to be received by an admiring fan, but to the Faculty Club where he joins colleagues for lunch...
...CURTAIN RISES and reveals an opulent set: the pool behind a sprawling Riviera mansion. The characters include the host, a Grand Old Man of English Letters, and his guest, the fashionable, wealthy, titled, or ornamental, who gossip and munch on scones. As the drama begins, it reveals a game of ambitious, but subtle, manipulation which some characters play at a leisurely pace, others with greater determination. Curiously, as the intrigue unfolds, the audience begins to recognize itself on stage. In horror, or delight, spectators watch the dissection of the characters' worst sides--their own. The Grand...
...tension bursts over curtain calls. Pavarotti takes a disputed solo bow, so Scotto refuses to take her final bow. As the loudspeaker calls her repeatedly to the stage, she sits in her dressing room, ignoring Mansouri's just praise and his fervent pleas. There will...