Word: screens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Loeb Ex, set director Stephen O'Donnell does a great job. A massive subway bridge (which resembles a structure used in the ART production of Beckett's Endgame) runs the length of the stage while black-and-white slides of dirty city life flash onto a film screen at the back of the stage...
...slide machine is quite effective in one particularly funny scene. As Collie Couch begins her story of an unlucky dog with a life analogous to Garga's, the screen takes a break from its usual depressing scenes to show a pipy little canine drawing laughs from the audience. The picture complement, though small in size, helps bring a bit of the harsh city to the relatively cozy Ex stage...
...simulates the limestone on which bamboo paper dries in China, for the most part, this is the real thing. The painter swears that his paintings are only of real places--places he has seen with his own eyes, and the "double-sided embroiderer" (a woman who stitches onto a screen extremely fine silk which miracuously becomes a double-sided work of art) is one of only four artisans in all of China capable of doing such work...
...anyway, CBS liked the idea, and a TV movie, Promises to Keep, is set for the fall. Maybe blood is thicker than conversation. Grandpa Mitchum's remarks on how it was to work with family ("fine"), interest- ing points about the film ("We did it locally") and Bentley's screen debut ("He did well enough") are, to say the least, laconic. Christopher has played supporting roles in a few movies. Bentley is supposed to enroll at USC this fall, but ever since the filming, he has been interviewing for other acting jobs. Does that please his progenitor? Says...
Whatever is doing it, Americans are ready to sing along. Three times a week, young patrons let loose to hot backgrounds at Carlos Murphy's, a restaurant in La Jolla, Calif., where technicians enhance the performances by projecting singers' images on a giant video screen and playing applause tapes afterward. "If the sing-along machine were put in every nightclub, it would cut into psychiatrists' business by 50%," says Ed Masterson, who produces the club's sing-out. "It's a tremendous release. You become someone important, even if it's only for a night." And for an encore...