Word: nunn
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...BOTTOM LINE: Trevor Nunn's staging dominates a stirring production of the Gershwin classic...
...audiences have the British to thank for doing overdue justice to an icon of American popular culture. This first-ever TV version of Gershwin's Porgy and Bess comes not from an American network but from the BBC. The director is a seasoned hand at such transatlantic transactions: Trevor Nunn, former head of the Royal Shakespeare Company and the man who brought Cats and Les Miserables to Broadway...
...putting an opera on TV, Nunn faced the usual dilemma: whether to televise an opera performance, with the camera tagging along as the music impels the action, or create a made-for-TV drama, with the camera shaping the action and the music being incorporated. Nunn opted for the latter, and it proves a dubious choice...
...perversely, the movie's only thoroughly bad person, one Howard Spink (Philip Jackson), who more or less mobilizes everyone. He purports to be a construction consultant, and it's he who arranges the contractors for the job on the bathroom. They are the Nunn Brothers, and since they are identical twins (both played by Phil Daniels), they add immeasurably to the confusion in the McAllister household. Along the way Spink seduces the more vulnerable of Ellie's friends (she even supplies him with the change he needs to buy the requisite condom), cheats the Nunns, presents an exorbitant bill...
Clinton hopes to woo Nunn with promises of additional cuts that he says Al Gore will propose this fall when he unveils his scheme for "reinventing government." "There are more cuts coming," Clinton told TIME. If that doesn't work, Clinton will try party loyalty. "They aren't going to get Nunn or Johnston," said a Democratic Senator, "unless it's clear that it's going to fail without them...