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...version contains extensive dialogue scenes, the other no dialogue at all, representing Wertmuller's attempts to battle her early experience as a playwright and rely more on images. She will actually film two versions of all major scenes, one with talk, one without. "One of the most difficult decisions I've ever had to make was the courtroom scene in Seven Beauties. Between Pasqualino and the girl he eventually marries I had beautiful dialogue! Beautiful! But in the end I knew they had said everything just by looking at each other...
Ever since Rolf Hochhuth's bitter drama The Deputy first appeared on the stage in 1963, there has been a nonstop debate over the explosive question raised by the German playwright: Could Pope Pius XII have done more to save six million European Jews from extermination during World War II? Six books have explored the thesis that by remaining silent he became an accomplice to genocide. The issue was even aired for almost two years in a Rome civil court, when American Author Robert Katz was accused of defaming the Pontiffs memory in Massacre in Rome, a 1973 film...
...went on to Columbia University Law School, where he took a degree in 1923. Robeson turned early to singing and brought to Negro spirituals and other work and folk songs a voice of stunning richness and emotional power. A commanding actor, he made his stage debut in 1922, impressing Playwright Eugene O'Neill and beginning a friendship that led to starring roles in a string of O'Neill plays (All God's Chillun Got Wings, The Hairy Ape and The Emperor Jones). Robeson's most spectacular stage triumph after Show Boat (1928), in which he sang...
...title for this exercise, How to Write a Short Story, is both a gentle spoof of the rule-ridden writer manque and a bit of well-earned boasting. O'Faolain is one of the few remaining men of let ters; in his 75 years he has been novelist, playwright, travel writer, critic, translator, biographer and journalist. His earliest short story was published nearly 50 years ago and he has lost no affection for his first love...
...screenplay by Thomas Wiseman from his novel of the same name, with the collaboration of playwright Tom Stoppard, is not as subtly revealing of character as the direction and editing. In fact much of it is irritatingly banal--the few funny moments, presumably contributed by Stoppard, seem like the last-minute contrivances. Comic relief is pretty welcome during this film, though, no matter how forced it may be. When the wife and the gigolo finally fulfill their artificially arranged estiny by running off together, the husband tries to track them down. He notices that a mysterious car has been following...