Word: rashomon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Three vagrant takes on the same tale: this isn't Rashomon, it's Trashomon. NBC, first with the most, painted Fisher's version in bold strokes, with no whitewash, and Noelle Parker was a fine Amy. ABC had the hottest sex, courtesy of a sulky, smoldering Drew Barrymore. Poor CBS had to hatch a Fatal Attraction plot without the sex, since Joey has never admitted to doing anything interesting. But the real subject of the Amy-thon was the Long Island accent and attitude -- Brooklyn with flashier threads. Try this at school, kids: "Din I awrea'y tell...
...forlorn way, a sort of collective moral life of the nation gets enacted through the ordeal stories. They dramatize the problem. They dramatize the resolution. Here is a sample Rashomon of rape -- Willie Smith's accuser pacing the lawn with Archpriestess Diane. Here is Mike Tyson. Here is life and death itself: poor Michael Landon slowly dying in full view of the congregation of Johnny Carson and PEOPLE...
...year when real-life courtroom drama became the stuff of TV entertainment, a Supreme Court nominee's droning confirmation process was suddenly transformed into a riveting version of Rashomon. On one side was the composed college professor charging sexual harassment; on the other the outraged judge crying racism; in the jury box, a gaggle of Senators fumbling. After this and the William Kennedy Smith rape trial, how can anybody watch L.A. Law again...
...year when real-life courtroom drama became the stuff of TV entertainment, a Supreme Court nominee's droning confirmation process was suddenly transformed into a riveting version of Rashomon. On one side was the composed college professor charging sexual harassment; on the other the outraged judge crying racism; in the jury box, a gaggle of Senators fumbling. After this and the William Kennedy Smith rape trial, how can anybody watch L.A. Law again...
Stone hired Sklar to work on the script, which was also based on Jim Marrs' study, Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy. He boiled Sklar's 550-page first draft down to 160 pages and interpolated extensive flashbacks, in the style of Rashomon and Z. By April 1991, when filming began, Stone, Sklar and co-producer A. Kitman Ho had interviewed more than 200 people...