Word: screens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Snowball: Denholm Elliot, A Room With A View. He'll be watching the Awards show from his room in the Best Western, flipping back and forth between it and My Three Sons, mooning the screen, throwing Beer Nuts...
...shrewd filmmakers who can give a skewed spin to a hoary genre. Compared with their new effort, though, Blood Simple was just a five-finger exercise with a knife spiked through the hand. To their old fascination with Sunbelt pathology, to their side-winding Steadicam and pristine command of screen space, the Coens have added a robust humor, a plot that keeps outwitting expectations and a surprising dollop of sympathy for their forlorn kidnapers...
Boston College got their only goal of the night at 19:26 of the first period when Ken Hodge scored on a wrist shot from 20 feet in the slot through a screen...
...Carter ruthlessly playing to win, he emphasizes the growing difficulty of breaking through White House image manipulation to get straight answers about U.S. policy, and has added timely passages about how isolation from press oversight contributed to the Iran-contra crisis. As tough on the page as on the screen, Donaldson prides himself on having written without a ghost, and the book's rambling, unpolished quality is more than offset by his anecdotal candor...
...seven-week shooting schedule (the exteriors will be shot later in Ireland), Huston has little room for error. Although his physical condition limits his mobility, he still agonizes over the simplest things, laboring to get the effect just right. "I like it when the audience forgets there's a screen, forgets it's a story and just beholds," he says...