Word: offscreen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...himself obliged to discuss whether he and Rosalynn slept in single beds or a double bed in the White House. Walters can talk sense with Sadat, but at other times can ask the most banal of fan magazine questions: "What was your biggest thrill?" Her best performances must occur offscreen, when by exerting charm or power or both she persuades people in the news that they had better be interviewed first by her. Nobody has had such command over celebrities since the columnist Louella Parsons ruled Hollywood...
...great emotional climax of all these months, the reunion of the hostages and their families, fortunately occurred offscreen, in privacy. Would it have happened in privacy if the press had had its way? The uncomfortable answer, which the press should be willing to face about itself, is no. Had the hostages not been Government employees, had they not been flown out by the Government, sequestered by the Government first in Wiesbaden then at West Point, with the press held at bay by military police, no feeling of ethical restraint or human sympathy would have kept the cameras from zooming...
Thank heaven, they kept the tennis pro offscreen. He was Judy Benjamin's first husband, and to judge by the dialogue, he was even less of a prize than any of the other men in her life. These include a second husband, who expires after making love to her on their wedding night (whether as a result of the locale, a bathroom floor, or the effort of overcoming his various hang-ups one cannot be certain); a French doctor who, unlike her other lovers, is dynamite physically, but emotionally selfish; and an Army officer who attempts to assault...
...fact, these people with their sometimes boring, occasionally self-serving ruminations and reminiscences are not characters in the conventional sense. They are instruments through which Ingmar Bergman, employing the device of an "investigator," who is mostly an offscreen voice, contemplates an enigma much larger than the causes of a sordid crime. What he is meditating upon is nothing less than the fundamental unknowability of the human soul...
...swiped from a Paris hotel concierge; in The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu, a film that will be released next week, Sellers imitates the uncle of his friend Lord Snowdon. Aurally acute listeners to Chance may recognize the voice of Comedian Stan Laurel. Although he was unmusical offscreen, he could become an opera star if the part required it. "Peter couldn't sing a bloody note," recalled Actor Wilfrid Hyde-White. "Yet when he sang Caruso, he took high Cs like Caruso." Throughout his career, Sellers stole or copied mannerisms of people he came across. First, he said...