Word: schiller
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...Schiller, however, did not. Flamboyant, often volatile, he battled constantly with cost-conscious associates over his grandiose plans. In August 1984, after seven weeks of shooting in Vienna, Schiller was dismissed, with NBC claiming that the production was already three days behind schedule and $800,000 over budget...
...filmmakers would have done better to record their own turbulent drama. It began in 1982, when Producer Lawrence Schiller (The Executioner's Song) hatched the idea of doing a TV version of Robert K. Massie's critically acclaimed 1980 biography of Peter. After lengthy negotiations, Schiller gained Kremlin approval to film in the U.S.S.R.--the first independent American production ever to do so. Schiller is proud of the 130-page agreement he hammered out with the Soviets, who sought but did not receive script approval. "I badgered them constantly," he says, into "a treaty that stood the test...
...Bach's memorabilia are largely confined to his scores, letters and other documents. There is only one authenticated portrait of the man, and his birthplace on the Lutherstrasse in the hilly Thuringian mining town of Eisenach was destroyed long ago. In Weimar, the cultivated city of Goethe and Schiller, where Bach spent almost a month in jail for the crime of wanting to change jobs, there is only a plaque to mark the spot on which the family home stood. In Cothen, where Bach worked for the music-loving Prince Leopold from 1717 to 1723, producing among other masterworks...
...refused to have anal intercourse? The ultimate point of watching Gary Gilmore (Tommy Lee Jones) get ready to face the firing squad may have been right at the end of the rifle barrels, but it would be nice to think that the license NBC granted Producer-Director Laurence Schiller and Scenarist Mailer for their high-flown enterprise might extend down to the troops in the trenches. With just half of the same breathing space, St. Elsewhere could be three times as good...
...Child) has usually been willing to sacrifice pace for performance. This time the tempo of fascism has given his film a compelling rhythm, and a company of distinguished actors has lent it an elegant tone. Gielgud is haughtily endearing, a stiff-collared gentleman who speaks in the cadences of Schiller and dreams in the images of Goethe. Robert Vaughn displays a flinty decency as Field Marshal Milch, who probes surgically for Speer's conscience, or at least his common sense. As Hitler, Jacobi spellbinds-first with the ingratiating gifts of the born orator, then with capricious viciousness. Finally...