Word: joshed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...HAVE A DREAM Conceived and Directed by ROBERT GREENWALD Adapted by JOSH GREENFELD
...spending all his efforts on launching his career as a matinee idol. Earlier this year, in Washington. D.C., he portrayed Martin Luther King Jr. in Josh Greenfeld's play I Have a Dream. He is currently working on a Universal back lot, playing the part of Black Composer Scott Joplin for an NBC special this fall. His mustache shorn, his hair slickly marcelled, Billy Dee sits before a dummy piano, miming perfect syncopation to Joplin's ragtime. Suddenly, on cue, he is distracted by the arrival of a lovely onlooker (Black Actress Margaret A very). Their eyes meet...
...confusion about what was "live" and what was on tape, it hardly made a difference. The men of the electronic age were desperately trying to tell a story that would not overload our frayed human wiring. The degree to which they succeeded was summed up best by Novelist-Screenwriter Josh Greenfeld: "On Tuesday afternoon I didn't know anything about gymnastics. By Thursday night, Olga Korbut had let me down...
Despite general enthusiasm, Shapp supporter Josh Katz said he sees the Shapp campaign as "an exercise in futility...
...exhibit on the subject. But it does have its transcendent moments, and the time in between is at last, steadily enjoyable. The Loeb's production has been mounted faithfully in the true twenties style with a vaguely art, does set lavish costumes and lost of energetic dance numbers. Director Josh Rubins has carried this historical faithfulness over in the acting style, too: the broad, farcical characterizations second forced at, first, but once you've gotten used to the production-after the first scene or so--slapstick and mugging seem like the only techniques that would make the play work...