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...derived from television and the movies. Sometimes that can be done creatively, as with Terry Johnson's Hitchcock Blonde. Sometimes, though, the need to shoehorn TV and film celebrities into a production, as with Matthew Perry and Minnie Driver in Sexual Perversity in Chicago, is simply awful. The best screen-to-stage adaptations - like Disney's The Lion King, which uses puppetry to inspired effect - are reinvented and freed by the live medium...
...giant falling leaves projected onto the back wall. Loveday Ingram's production, with its single white-room set, tries to find a cinematic fluidity using sliding walls to cut between scenes, while film clips of happy couples reminiscing (a successful device in the original) are often projected on a screen in front of the set. It's a good try, but since playwright Marcy Kahan uses much of Ephron's screenplay verbatim there are too many rapid-fire scenes. Every setting change, however brief, disrupts the momentum, and the effect is wearying. The cinematic production simply emphasizes Kahan's failure...
...formula has worked tremendously for Romano—TV’s highest paid actor, he’s currently making $1.8 million per episode of Raymond—and in attempting a film career he has wisely chosen to transport his down-to-earth persona from the small screen...
...this kind of TV crudity going to wane after the Jackson incident? Absolutely. Just as surely as Columbine ended screen violence, the Who Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire? scandal finished reality TV and the Sept. 11 attacks killed irony. Betting against the transgressiveness of pop culture is like shorting the market: you may be right for a period, but over time you will lose. Even if the FCC does leash the big networks meaningfully--a long shot--viewers remain free to go to cable. "It's acceptable for Tiger Woods to curse on ESPN," notes NBC Entertainment president Jeff...
...start manipulating it--scratching just like a club DJ--the video on a TV monitor or projector reacts in perfect synch. Pioneer hopes the device will inspire a wave of DVD VJs to create new forms of visual entertainment. Imagine, at a dance club, looking up at a plasma screen over the VJ's head and seeing Al Pacino going "Say h-h-hello to my little fr-fr-fr-friend!" in time with the beat. The turntable also plays audio...