Word: screens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Irving achieved national popularity in 1978 with "The World According to Garp," his first bestseller which became a blockbuster movie starring Robin Williams. His next novel, "The Hotel New Hampshire" also sold millions and made it to the silver screen...
...plane crash at the premature age of 32. Because the precise circumstances of Cline's life and death are so clearly explicated in the film's rushes and television commercials, we fight against the irresistible temptation of ticking off the years of her life as they appear on the screen in order to speed things up a bit. When, at about three-quarters of the way through the picture, Cline is the victim of a near-fatal auto accident, we entertain the all-too-fleeting hope that screenwriter Robert Giechel had the sense to rewrite her life in order...
EVERY SO OFTEN, an epically bad film reaches the screen (indeed, usually just one screen) which is guaranteed to drive one out of the theater within 40 minutes, the approximate time it takes to finish your popcorn and pop. Yes, five dollars is wasted, but it's no use throwing good time after bad money. And bad money it is that is paid for a showing of James Joyce's Women...
...newly-formed organization plans to screen movies in the Science Center every Sunday afternoon at 2 p.m., in order to "generate income for the production of a student film next year," according to Brian N. Backus, '87, the club's president...
...There are no second acts in American lives," wrote F. Scott Fitzgerald, who died in 1940 a few miles from the Hollywood editing table where Orson Welles was giving birth to his own screen legend with Citizen Kane. The sin of Welles' life was that it had two complementary, all-American acts: heroic tragedy, then celebrity farce. By the time he was 25, Welles had traveled the world, appeared at the Gate Theater in Dublin, stormed Broadway with crackling, sepulchral productions of Shakespeare and The Cradle Will Rock, scared America out of its wits with his War of the Worlds...