Word: directors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...vehicle for earning in-service training credits for promotion. The network's original programming totals two hours each day and is replayed continuously, allowing cops to wedge in their viewing during off-hours. The story line is unabashedly pro-police. "We make no apologies for it," says news director Larry Estepa. "Police are getting beaten over the head enough...
...tiff with Spike Lee, Hall has been embroiled in a feud with Willis Edwards, president of the Beverly Hills-Hollywood chapter of the N.A.A.C.P. When Hall's show began, Edwards complained publicly about the scarcity of blacks in key behind-the-scenes positions. (Hall's producer and director, as well as the vice president of his production company, are all white women.) According to Hall, after making the statements Edwards asked for a $40,000 contribution to his organization, a request that Hall told a reporter "sounds like extortion to me." Edwards denied asking for money and slapped Hall with...
MASTERGATE. The President dozes away his afternoons. A paranoid National Security Adviser travels by Stealth bomber. The true head of Government is a secretive CIA director who also happens to be dead. Larry Gelbart's fiercely funny Broadway satire lampoons events that made the evening news the sharpest comedy on TV. Joseph Daly is a dead-on George Bush, and the dialogue is an S.J. Perelmanesque stream -- debased, obfuscatory and unconsciously self- condemning. Samples: "I wonder if I might ask the Senator to stop raking over dead horses"; "What did the President know, and does he have any idea that...
...Renaissance's tour of the U.S. next year. Branagh needed that royal self-assurance to build a major acting company and mount a large film. He will need more of it to sustain his career at its current velocity. "Quite soon," says Terry Hands, the RSC's artistic director, "Ken must decide whether he will be an admin man or a great actor. If a leading actor is also running the whole show, he's worried about the box office, the creaking floorboard, the divorce of his cast member. All these can sap that tunnel vision, and the performance...
...make the challenge sporting, Branagh would plan his film while starring in three roles with his Renaissance Theater Company. And he would shoot his Henry, for a pinchpenny $7.5 million, in seven weeks, less than a third of the time Olivier took. On the first day, the novice director didn't know to shout "Action!" until someone poked him in the ribs. How could he make a decent film under so daunting a shadow...