Word: director
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Anwar Sadat. Staff Writer Patricia Blake, who learned about Communism as an expert on Soviet affairs, wrote Teng's biography and the article on life in China. Reporter-Researchers Laurie Upson Mamo and Oscar Chiang also contributed to the 21 -page package, which was designed by Assistant Art Director Rudolph Hoglund and supervised by Senior Editors John Elson and Ron Kriss. Says Elson...
Furious, she turned her life experience into a career. Now she is director of the 2½-year-old Displaced Homemakers Center in Oakland, Calif. It is one of the two original centers (the other is in Baltimore) that serve as models for more than 50 programs that have sprung up across the country in the past two years...
...when she describes the moment that their relationship became serious, one can almost hear a director shout "Cut and print": "It was about three weeks into the picture-the end of the day-I had one more shot, was sitting at the dressing table in the portable dressing room combing my hair. Bogie came in to bid me good night. He was standing behind me-when suddenly he leaned over, put his hand under my chin, and kissed me. It was impulsive-he was a bit shy-no lunging wolf tactics. He took a worn package of matches...
That is not the end of the problems. W.D. Richter's script, especially in he early, expository going, is often laughably literal, and therefore incapable of establishing an air of mystery as people start becoming strangely abstract and distant. Director Philip Kaufman unwisely gets too close to the pods, trying to show just how the transformation works. He would have been wise to let our imaginations run riot on this matter rather than permitting his special effects people to do so, since all they come up with is some grimly gunky stuff, not nearly as suggestive as the sudsy...
Maybe, just maybe, it is. Jane Wagner, the film's scenarist and director, has long been one of Tomlin's most able comedy writers. At some point, perhaps, she conceived Moment by Moment as an extended stand-up routine or as a screwball romance along the lines of the old Carole Lombard-William Powell comedy, My Man Godfrey (which is quoted in the film). But the movie's subject, a liaison between a bored Beverly Hills matron and a younger man, is too provocative to be entirely laughed away. Wagner deals with this dilemma by switching...