Word: plotlessness
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Writer Goldman turned out no less than 13 drafts for his new producer. The story began to take on dimension and life when Prince suggested that the title be changed. "Before, the play was full of action," Prince recalls. "The new script was as close to plotless as you can get." So plotless, in fact, that roles were inserted when socko auditions were delivered by Actresses Ethel Shutta and Fifi d'Orsay?who premiered in 1925 with Gallagher and Shean in the Greenwich Village Follies. They were found subjects as, in a way, was Yvonne De Carlo, who seemed wrong...
...1930s. One aim of the series is to slash through the current sentimentalization of the Great Depression era. "Young people romanticize the '30s," says Arthur Miller. "In actuality, it was a terrible time." The opener was Miller's play A Memory of Two Mondays. It is a plotless, proletarian slice-of-life drama, but Jacqueline Babbin's production was a model of intelligent TV adaptation, and Paul Bogart directed a first-rate cast headed by Estelle Parsons, Jack Warden, and George Grizzard...
...Plotless and perhaps even pointless, Gerald Arpino's Trinity nonetheless represents a throbbing fusion of classic dance with the sound of now. It perfectly epitomizes the jaunty style and passionate, youthful temperament of the New York City Center's Joffrey Ballet...
Maestro's Strength. Yet in so plotless a pastiche, the population matters less than the imagination that propels it. That quality the film has in superabundance. Fellini's style is less theatrical than amphitheatrical. Colossal grotesques leap from private fantasy to public mind. In a set daubed with indelible cerulean and blood red, an albino hermaphrodite possessed of occult powers is abducted-only to wither pitifully in the desert. A quadruple amputee somehow manages a deep...
...America, Inc. is a sort of plotless collage of film. One may say, finally, that the nature of life in America is its theme, but there are many thematic elements in this film and perhaps any one of them could be considered central. One theme, most important at the beginning of the program, is Silver's personal search for a lost creativity. An attempt to rediscover this ability takes him and another freak on a trip to New York and then Washington, and here we have another theme-two freaks in search of America (you remember that...