Word: filler
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With the help of hundreds of both computer-animated and real roaches--none of whom, unfortunately, were harmed in the making of the film--director John Payson zips us quickly from one six-legged musical number to another. In between, comedy both broad and cynical provides filler of wildly varying quality: both toilet humor (literally: Joe works for a urinal cake company and woos Lily with fertilizer) and toilet humor with a difference (a musical band named for what it sounds like...
...years ago, a small group of friends in Dublin decided it was time to update that picture. TV producer Moya Doherty was faced with creating a seven-minute filler piece for the 1994 Eurovision pop-song contest. "I wanted to show a modern image of Ireland," she says, "not the old green pastures. Irish dance is frozen in tradition, and I thought it's time to thaw...
...result was no filler, but a romp. Doherty and her producer-husband, John McColgan, knew they had a hit and quickly turned it into a full-length show called Riverdance. Composer Bill Whelan wrote the score, which uses traditional forms like the jig and the reel. And Michael Flatley, the volcanic star of the short segment, devised the choreography. All four had a background in television or the theater, which paid off in the show's drive and shrewd pacing. Americans are about to get their first look at this phenomenon...
...challenge was to take a 70-page script and make it 99.5 percent funny, with virtually no filler material," said Eilenberg. "I think we came pretty damn close...
...Oswald's Tale can be judged as investigative journalism or as literature. On either count a fair judgment would be favorable, though mixed. Sunshine and clouds. As in much of Mailer's work, moments of real inspiration and breathtaking shrewdness have been crowded into the same packing case with filler and plodding and, now and then, the sheer bull of a transcendent blowhard...