Word: hamme
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tights, and unlike Superman, he didn't fly." Finding a suitable script proved an additional problem. Early drafts followed Batman from the childhood trauma of seeing his parents gunned down by vicious Jack Napier. "You had to wade through 20 years," says Sam Hamm, one of the three writers who worked on the film, "just to get to the first shot of the guy in the costume that we've all come to see." His solution: Bruce Wayne is already Batman, but Jack Napier is not yet the Joker...
...Hamm's scenario, Batman interrupts a Napier heist and allows the crook to fall into a vat of toxic waste. Jack emerges as the Joker and leads a crime wave, concocting a formula to be injected into cosmetics that twists the victim's face into the Joker's awful leer. Soon Gotham is a city of the grinning dead, and only Batman can revive it, with the help of Vicki Vale (Kim Basinger), frontline photojournalist and all-time fabulous babe...
Facing Hammadi last week were the slain man's parents, Richard and Patricia Stethem, who appeared as co-plaintiffs for themselves and six passengers. The couple's lawyer, Rainer Hamm, stressed that though the process was taking place in the "wrong country" -- West Germany rather than the U.S. -- their presence in court was a "symbol of trust . . . toward the West German justice system." Hammadi entered no plea. His trial is expected to last at least a year...
William F. Hamm, a spokesman for the Edison Foundation, said the grant is consistent with the Foundation's goal to "support area educational training...
...instill some life into what is essentially a theatrical museum piece. Director JoAnna Akalaitis has remained dutifully faithful to the script--down to Beckett's own mention of the Ritz cracker--even when the dialogue becomes an awkward partner to the massive visual impact of the subterranean set and Hamm and Clov garbed respectively as a Rastafarian and a grown-up street urchin...