Word: mason
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this instance he has chosen to abuse the power that has flowed to him as the most commercially successful playwrightscenarist in human history not only by fobbing off a retitled and rewritten version of his old demi-flop show, The Gingerbread Lady, but also by casting his wife Marsha Mason in the leading role. It is hard to say which is the more unforgivable...
...Mason is an actress who tries hard, God knows, but she is not really attractive enough to make one forgive (or even ignore) her inadequacies as a performer...
...customer in a demonstration of restaurant security for a visiting McDonald's executive. In fact, it was Foran's theatrics which provided most of the drama in the early stages of the trial. While examining one of Dayan's French store managers, Foran displayed melodrama that even Perry Mason would have shunned. He turned away from the witness and walked slowly towards the councilor's desk. Wheeling around suddenly, he whipped off his Kennedyesque half-glasses and shouted, "Is that the basement where you beat up one of your employees?" Since the restaurant in question didn't have a basement...
Film work seems less central to his concerns and his demands. Asked about his grueling 18 months making Altered States, he replies: "Have you ever been beaten up on the street? Well, working on a film set is easier." But he lavishes praise on Larry Kasdan, who, like Marshall Mason, offers actors that precious directorial commodity: trust. After Altered States, Eyewitness and Body Heat, Hurt may be said to have mastered the craft. But he won't say it. "I respect what people have told me," he says. "If I make it to 40, 1 might be a good...
...sportive bent. The nation basked in the golden autumn of Pax Britannica, with almost nothing to grouse about but the grouse (not enough of them). For Americans who could afford the fare, the country was the social and cultural equivalent of a well-stuffed hamper from Fortnum & Mason. So is Mr. American, a splendidly entertaining English adventure novel of the old school...