Word: goldman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Elvis, Goldman...
SHOOT THE MOON Directed by Alan Parker; Screenplay by Bo Goldman...
Concentration on the telling detail is a way good writers have of avoiding both melodrama and sentimentality, which blanched the hard truth of Kramer vs. Kramer. As he proved in Melvin and Howard, Bo Goldman is a very good writer, a man whose world appears to be filled with mild eccentrics and funny overheard remarks that he gets down just right in his mental notebook. His specificity seems to have disciplined Alan Parker, who in the past has liked to stress the ugly metaphorical overtones in his material (in Midnight Express he kept insisting that the whole world...
...Marshall Goldman, an economist who is associate director of Harvard's Russian Research Center: "It was like a heart transplant in which the system rejects the foreign body. The factories simply were not working...
...idealist against politician. But they all have that Robert Bolt-Q.E.D. quality. Bolt's latest play; in fact, State of Revolution (1977) is an absorbing, overly tidy account of Leninism disfigured by and dissolving into Stalinism, and there are echoes of it all over Reds. Reed and Emma Goldman (Maureen Stapleton) see the dream smothered, and Reed asks, tragically, "What's life if we pull...