Word: plot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What is this? A report on the latest skin flick? A case study on the fantasy life of a troubled adolescent? Nope. Just a plot summary of an episode from the hottest new television show of the season. Television? That's right, television...
...Bleier, executive vice president for television at Warner Communications, such people are the ones "you have to reach out for if you want the ratings." He explains: "They have seen it all-the entire coastline of California, every inch of Universal Studios. They've seen every detective plot, every comedic pratfall. To attract them you have to let them experience sensations and hazards that have not been dealt with before. What is left but the evolution of women in society...
...Writer Alan Rudolph, 32, is a protégé of Robert Altman. Rudolph worked on Nashville and wrote the screenplay of Buffalo Bill and the Indians; Altman is the producer of Welcome to L.A. There are pronounced traces of Altman's style here-mainly in the kaleidoscopic plot construction that is reminiscent of Nashville. Rudolph has his own voice, however, and he has found it early. He falters at times, lets his ambition slide into pretension, pampers a line of dialogue until it just arches its back and slinks away. Allowances should be made for first features-they...
...movie is a pop fresco of L.A. set over the course of a recent Christmas time, sweeping across the people who come and go, get stuck, stay. The plot-a nicely engineered collision of characters, all of whom are somehow related-is framed around a wound-up musician named Eric Wood (Richard Baskin) and his flailing efforts to finish a record album. Wood's music bears all the other characters along. Carroll Barber (Keith Carradine), who wrote some of the tunes that Wood records, is an itinerant composer called back to L.A. by his agent (Viveca Lindfors...
...Faculty Plot...