Word: directorate
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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HENRY V. Kenneth Branagh, 28, is the Olivier wanna-be of the '80s. In this version, keenly faithful to the famous 1944 film, the actor-director stakes his boldest claim yet to Lord Larry's title. The elite cast -- a veritable Burke's Peerage of British acting -- makes it a royal, enjoyable feast...
IMMEDIATE FAMILY. Glenn Close and James Woods desperately want a child; Mary Stuart Masterson is about to have one. Director Jonathan Kaplan's comedy-drama finds sympathetic laughter in everyone's burdens and opportunities. The tears come later...
...stylized bitchiness of Harling's writing requires a stage setting. Failing that, it requires a director willing to let his actors throw good lines away or overlap them in ways that work in the movie's naturalistic context. But Herbert Ross insists on theatricality. His editing even provides awkward little pauses for the audience to fill with laughter, just as if this were still a play. As a result, some very good performers (Shirley MacLaine, Olympia Dukakis, Daryl Hannah, Dolly Parton) function less as full-scale sorority sisters than as chorus members who elbow their way up front...
...Melbourne alone, 417 conferences and conventions have been canceled. Unless the strike is settled soon, travel industry experts say that three-fourths of Australia's large hotel chains will be forced to shut down. In a letter to Prime Minister Bob Hawke earlier this month, John McEvoy, managing director of the Metro Inns Hotel Group, predicted the imminent "collapse of thousands of businesses and jobs...
...transplants pose a challenge to the domestic U.S. industry on several levels. "Look at the advantages they have: new equipment, new management systems, a well-trained and well-screened work force," says David Cole, director of the University of Michigan's office for the study of automotive transportation. Because the transplants are primarily nonunion, notes Cole, the factories save an estimated $500 a car in benefits alone, compared with American companies...