Word: screens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...When Jerome Robbins choreographed, he'd generally wing it -- try something and see if it worked. "West Side Story" worked like no musical has before or since. And thanks to that silver screen, and its pageboy the VCR, we get to refresh our memories again and again. And it's a lot cheaper than a night in Manhattan...
...some movies on 5,000 screens, and they look just like all the other behemoths clogging your local 'plex. But every once in a while a unique film work appears on one screen as a lonely reminder of what cinema can summon in intelligence, scope and power. That would be Decalogue, the 10-part cycle of short films that Krzysztof Kieslowski made for Polish TV in 1988-89. Long withheld from U.S. distribution, the series will be shown this week at Manhattan's Walter Reade Theater. A cinephile's fondest hope is that the series will soon travel to other...
...coverage of my civil rights activities, which your writer reduced to a bare minimum. I played an important role in Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1963 March on Washington as the leader and chief organizer of the scores of actors who attended. Some months earlier, as president of the Screen Actors Guild, at Dr. King's request, I persuaded the leadership of one of the technical unions (IATSE) to meet with him, after explaining that IATSE not only barred blacks from membership but also accepted only the sons of its members into the union. I merely knocked on the door...
...gear. But sometimes even the king of the audio-video world messes up. Take its new Watchman Color TV ($109, due out next month). It's lightweight, looks great, and comes with a clever neckstrap that doubles as an antenna. But painfully poor reception and a tiny 2.2-in. screen make it a better paperweight than...
...everyone is fighting. Many, especially younger children, flock to this American invasion and sit catatonic in front of the screen as the English dialogue is matched by Hebrew and often Arabic or Russian subtitles. Hours on end they sit, watching-and learning. Dylan Mckay, the Fresh Prince and Kramer have a new job on their hands here: they are teaching English around the clock, more thoroughly and at a younger age than the Israeli school system manages to do. The children soak up the language and with it what they see as American styles, dress and mannerisms...