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Returning to Detroit after his parole, Allen went to work in advertising while trying to develop a stand-up comedy act at night. Mark Ridley, owner of the Comedy Castle, remembers how Allen, dressed in coat and tie, stood out from the usual crowd of overage class clowns even in his first appearance. "He was a bundle of nerves," says Ridley, "shaking his hands and pacing himself into a frenzy. But boom, once he was up there, he was in control." His early material, Allen recalls, was full of sexual and scatological references: "It was like turning your guitar...
...happened, Toby Brown did not write his screenplay and did not give up his practice. But almost any enthusiastic amateur might have spurred Crisis in the Hot Zone into production faster and with happier results than the Hollywood royalty -- Robert Redford, Jodie Foster, director Ridley Scott and producer Lynda Obst -- to whom 20th Century Fox entrusted this $50 million thriller. Nearly two years after Preston's article appeared -- time enough for him to expand it into a book, The Hot Zone, due in stores in a few weeks -- the film had not begun shooting. Last week, in fact, it looked...
Harvard Film Archive. Ridley Scott'ssci-fi classic "Blade Runner" at 10:00 p.m. Veryloosely based on Philip K. Dick's short story "DoAndroids Dream of Electric Sheep?" Director's cut.Recommended by Fifteen Minutes.6 October Wednesday
...after John Wayne and has been in the U.S. since 1967, recalls when he would "go up for a film job and the producer would ask me what made me think I could direct a movie about teenagers in Minnesota. So I'd say to them, 'Would you ask Ridley Scott or Tony Scott ((two British directors working in America)) that same question?' Because I've been here much longer than they have." And what hasn't changed is that studio owners, whether American or Japanese, are not interested in promoting any cultural agenda. "I'm going...
...Church. Speaker after speaker denounced the injustice and alienation that are part of their everyday life. Each community leader acknowledged that institutions designed to protect law-abiding citizens had failed them this time, but still some appealed for calm. "Look beside you," said Los Angeles city council member Mark Ridley-Thomas. "These young African Americans are not in the streets...