Word: screens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...after year fewer people came. Despite its exalted status as a temple of family entertainment and the "Showplace of the Nation," Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall would have closed if a few changes had not been made. And what changes they were! Where Snow White once graced the screen, Madonna has become a queen of the stage. In the hall where the movie King Kong premiered, the closest thing to a horror show these days is a concert by the shockrock group Twisted Sister. In addition to the high-kicking Rockettes (who still show up from time to time...
Borrowing thematically and stylistically from Woody Allen's handiwork, Jaglom brings us a character that moralizes directly through the screen at the audience, one time at the beginning and then finally at the movie's end. We are also deluged with a variety of characters who keep searching for that elusive source of happiness they think is somewhere they...
...than worship services. Gold-jacketed attendants guide cars in the parking lot. Inside, caged canaries chirp and camera-toting tourists click away through worship. As the service begins, 90-ft. doors open to reveal twelve fountains, one for each apostle, and an 11-ft. by 15-ft. Jumbotron video screen, so the back pews can catch the preacher's every gesture. Schuller's sermons, taxing to neither spirit nor intellect, owe as much to psychology as to Scripture. They are peppered with greeting-card aphorisms for seekers of happiness and self-esteem. "Coping and hoping." "Turn your scars into stars...
...brokerage-firm margin clerk sitting at a keyboard in Denver changes a few letters on a computer screen and magically transforms 1,700 shares of Loren Industries stock worth $1.50 each into the same number of Long Island Lighting shares selling for more than ten times that price. A keyboard operator processing orders at an Oakland department store changes some delivery addresses and diverts several thousand dollars' worth of store goods into the hands of accomplices. A ticket clerk at the Arizona Veterans' Memorial Coliseum issues full-price basketball tickets, sells them and then, tapping out codes on her computer...
Although the film itself received poor to middling reivews, Tracey Ullam's performance as Meryl Streep's kooky, off-the-wall sidekick in Fred Schepisi's Plenty was very highly praised. That newcomer Ullam was able to work within the constraints of an exceptionally poor screen adaptation of David Hare's play and against the grain of Schepisi's generally sloppy direction is a tribute to her acting ability and potential...