Word: fillers
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...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...
...Phillip's posturing or to the traumas of the third act; McCullers has them go right on being the pushy belle, the sniffling old maid, the smart aleck kid, and the love struck good guy, even as Phillip self-destructs. The imbalance of the heavy drama with the trite filler of the other characters is uneven, unsettling, and unsatisfactory...