Word: screens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that, however, Michaels will need a sharper editing eye than some feel he demonstrated last season. "I saw pretty good sketches die on the way to the screen," notes Michael McKean, another departing cast member. "If a sketch asked a lot of an audience, they didn't want it. By and large, you had one smart piece within the 90 minutes." Michaels will need to come up with a lot more of those next season if Saturday Night is to live again...
...such decisions, large and small, will this new institution be judged. The rock museum, which will celebrate its grand opening this weekend, boasts an impressive building by architect I.M. Pei (the entire project cost $92 million), interactive exhibits (touch-screen computers that play requested songs and videos) and an array of music memorabilia, including the poetry Bruce Springsteen wrote in junior college (excerpt: "emerald waves crashed upon the shores...") and a list from the Rolling Stones detailing what they required backstage for their 1972 tour (among the items: vodka, backgammon set and "apple pie--lots"). As of last week, however...
Along with the music, visitors will get an education. The museum places heavy emphasis on rock's roots. One exhibit, called "The Beat Goes On," consists of several touch-screen computers showing video clips of rockers along with the performers who influenced them--Chuck Berry, for example, is linked with saxophonist Louis Jordan. Other exhibits are devoted to important rock precursors, such as blues greats Lead Belly and Howlin' Wolf. There are plenty of intriguing curios on display as well--such as the Who drummer Keith Moon's grade school report card, saying he "is inclined to play the fool...
...Pete's sake, have fun! Paul Rudnick lives to be giddy . Court jester of the Plague Years, the gay playwright-essayist has brought his romantic comedy about aids (you'll have to take our word for it) pretty successfully to the screen. Jeffrey faces its antsy audience head on: when two men kiss, we see a shot of two movie-house couples, the guys gagging, the girls enthralled. Under Christopher Ashley's direction, Steven Weber is beguiling as a '90s Candide. He gets suave support from Patrick Stewart and a scene stolen from under him by Nathan Lane...
...seem, with a lot of patience. Producer and co-writer George Miller (of the Mad Max films) bought Dick King-Smith's children's story, on which the movie is based, nearly a decade ago. Co-writer and director Chris Noonan worked six years to bring it to the screen. The $25 million production seamlessly blends computer-graphic images (mostly of the creatures talking), animatronic doubles (for the facial expressions real creatures couldn't do) and live action supplied by 800 oinking, barking, baaing animals. "It had the logistical difficulty of a big action movie," says Miller, who claims...