Word: kasdan
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...director of Wyatt Earp, Lawrence Kasdan (he also wrote the screenplay with Dan Gordon), is obviously of the school that believes all inclusiveness is a reasonable trade-off for insight. Or maybe, like a lot of literary biographers these days, he can't bear to omit any of his research. But his approach prevents Wyatt Earp from developing a compelling dramatic arc, and it doesn't help a rather glum and withdrawn Kevin Costner make the eponymous protagonist into a dynamic or even very attractive figure. Mostly he is fate's pawn, grimly enduring one damn thing after another...
Carby, addressing more than 70 gathered at Emerson Hall in the last of the three W.E.B. Dullois Lectures, drew on Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" and the recent Lawrence Kasdan film "Grand Canyon" as examples of works by whites intended to preserve their social position, not to promote true racial equality...
WRITER: LAWRENCE KASDAN...
...nice mismatching of characters, the kind that movies have always wanted us to believe leads inevitably to love. It's a nice mismatching of star images too -- Ms. Sinuosity and Mr. Straight Arrow. And it works pretty well. Lawrence Kasdan's script gives Rachel a messy life: the band rehearsing in her living room, members of her entourage wandering in and out, a son lonesome and looking for a father figure. In contrast, Frank has no life at all: an underfurnished tract house with the mail piling up at the front door, no visible friends or light-minded interests...
...slot behind David Letterman from Monday to Thursday, the half-hour show is a literate oasis among the infomercial emetics of late-night TV. Three million insomniacs regularly catch Costas with many celebrities who Don't Do TV -- talking acting with Robert Duvall, say, or camera angles with Lawrence Kasdan. Costas can also be a gentle nudge, drawing a controlled performer like Mike Wallace into revelations of his bout with depression...