Word: platts
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...have a lot of the skills already, and it's going to help me refine them to speak more intelligently, to engage other teachers in the field," says David A. Platt, a master's candidate in Truitt's course...
...Laurel and Hardy--think a snappier Saps at Sea--except that the Stan and Ollie here are Tucci and co-star Oliver Platt. Tucci, incapable of a gross moment even in the slapstick, seasick exertions of shipboard burlesque, nicely approximates Laurel's high, piping whine as counterpoint to Platt's unctuous exasperation. They are two actors stowed away on a '40s-ish ocean liner, ever scurrying from a British stage star who wants them arrested, gelded, dead. Also onboard are a deposed queen (Isabella Rossellini), a gay tennis player (Billy Connolly), a Teutonic chief steward (Campbell Scott) and a suicidal...
Beatty has created several dead-on characters, particularly his top aide Murphy (Oliver Platt). Although his boss has started speaking almost entirely in class- and race-baiting rap and insults the vapid, helmet-blond moderator of the final debate, Murphy soldiers on as if he's got just a nanny problem on his hands. He praises the "value of a frank exchange" as the richest Jews in California walk out on a Bulworth rant. "Forty winks," and his guy will be just fine. "He's tied up with his advisers," he barks into two phones when Bulworth has disappeared...
Junior has been busy running the executive catapult. First out: executive vice president Howard Weitzman, helped by his close friend president Ron Meyer. On the studio level, production president Marc Platt was dismissed (on his birthday), and the marketing team of Buffy Shutt and Kathy Jones resigned under pressure...
Weitzman, a lawyer who represented John DeLorean and, briefly, O.J. Simpson, was an odd hire, considering his absolute lack of corporate experience. Weitzman says he left because the job became too administrative. "Steering a glacier," he says, "is not easy." Platt was ousted because he clashed with studio chairman Casey Silver. It was Silver, not Platt, who approved a slew of underperforming films, such as the Bruce Willis-Richard Gere vehicle The Jackal and the political dud Primary Colors. Silver, whose contract has been renewed, says he can turn the studio around: "We have excellent product in the pipeline...