Word: screens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most intriguing, in an era when women's hormonal reactions have been curiously represented on screen by male voyeurs like Fellini, Goddard and Malle, Smooth Talk is the product of female director Joyce Chopra, a 48-year-old documentary veteran making her feature-film debut...
...just such a computer already. He puts on a squeaky little computer voice: "It says, 'What is the observed altitude?' So I have an altimeter, right? I punch in the observed altitude. It says, 'What is the observed temperature in Fahrenheit?' I punch it all in, and the screen goes blank and thinks about it. It pops up then and says, 'The adjusted altitude is 1,800 ft.' " Garlits sets his fuel-air mixture accordingly. The computer knows things he can only guess...
...grown up around the era's scruffy, fevered atmosphere backstage. The film My Favorite Year offered peephole glimpses of those times; now Max Wilk, a noted historian of popular art, revisits the terrain in A Tough Act to Follow. His acerbic novel blends reverie with naked rage at conniving, screen-deep program executives who have displaced the medium's pioneers. Although some secondary characters and events are real, Wilk focuses on an imaginary comedian, Jody Cassel, natural star and born victim. At 21 she was a headliner; before her 30th birthday she had been forced into obscurity, leaving only...
...Suite Otis" capped off the evening, set to music by and dedicated to the late Otis Redding. Five couples moving synchronously--women dressed in hot pink dresses and men in loud red pants--danced comically against a jet black screen. This sequence was interupted by a short, jazzy piece danced by five women to the song "Satisfaction." The rhythm of this work was contagious, and the audience demanded an encore...
...hours before each performance, Olivier could slap on a putty nose and blow the house away. The people Guinness describes are not quite larger than life but simply more grand than you and I are used to. John Gielgud really is as acerbic and sophisticated as he is on screen, and Ernie Kovacs was indeed the funniest person Guinness ever met. During the making of Our Man in Havana, Guinness saw Kovacs sitting typing in his dressing room with the door wide open--and surrounded by half-a-dozen naked girls. "Shall I close the door?" asked Guinness...