Word: parkers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...director, Alan Parker, worked with Laura Jones to write the screenplay, and the film is very faithful to the book--too faithful, perhaps. Like a complex organ hymn being plinked out on an electric keyboard, the film plays the same basic melody as the memoir but fails to bring out the nuances of McCourt's writing, while these nuances are precisely what made Angela's Ashes a great work rather than a mere string of anecdotes...
...many voiceovers quoting directly from the book simply aren't sufficient to transfer the spirit, humor and pathos from the page to the screen. While multiple themes may have worked in the book, they take away from any strong focus the film might have had. Parker should have chosen from a few of the many themes that run wild through the movie: the father/son relationship, religion, storytelling, education, poverty and class struggles are all jumbled together in a coming-of-age format. Instead of being rabidly faithful to the book and trying to include four out of every five anecdotes...
...This is Parker E. Conrad. Parker covers the Undergraduate Council for news. He takes this very seriously. Although you may not be able to tell from this angle, in this picture he is simultaneously spinning around in his chair, sending a mass e-mail re: cool places to live, punching several final clubs and expounding on the pressing issues of his life in a very, very loud voice...
...judicious in using the press due to the fatigue factor, especially with [Clemente] and [Prasse-Freeman] out and since [junior forward Bryan] Parker had the flu," Sullivan said. "So with our lack of depth, we didn't want to make our big men run too much, which is what you force them to do when you press...
...hysterical caller reported to HUPD that two males had robbed her at knifepoint on Parker Street in Roxbury. She said her pocketbook with cash and credit cards had been stolen. The Boston police were notified...