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...ugliest political brawl since the Jefferson-Adams presidential campaign--MELISSA GILBERT vs. VALERIE HARPER for the presidency of the Screen Actors Guild--is being contested owing to a ballot-instruction technicality. Gilbert's surprise victory culminates a campaign in which Harper, who ran on the Actors Moving Forward slate, refused to debate Gilbert, of the Restore Respect party. Harper sent out a mailing disclosing that Gilbert was a scab in a 1989 movie; Gilbert was forced to send out an e-mail explaining why she was too busy to appear at SAG strike events last year (birthday parties, dying...
...company hired to screen passengers at the nation's largest airports, Argenbright Security has proved unnervingly lax at screening its own employees. Last year, following an investigation at the Philadelphia airport, Argenbright pleaded guilty to criminal charges of falsifying employee backgrounds, which had led to the hiring of those whose records included drug possession and aggravated assault. The FAA imposed a probation, and Argenbright's then parent company, AHL, paid $1.6 million in penalties...
However, even more troubling are the screens suspended throughout the theater, displaying slides to accompany the action on stage. The images on the screens do not serve a constant purpose—sometimes they provide a physical background and at other times they comment on the scene’s meaning. The only consistent aspect of the slides is that they never advance the production; the images are bizarrely stylized, artistically lacking and more distracting than anything else. At one point, a heavily pixilated fade is repeatedly used that had me staring at a screen and recalling the effects...
Unfortunately, ill-advised screen usage and poor sightlines are not all that plague this production. Awkward staging also sinks a number of scenes, including all those in which guns figured prominently. Every scene that features a character holding a gun and threatening another is unbelievable and loses its dramatic build, both because of the way the actors hold their weapons and the way they react to the situations. And among the more curiously flawed scenes is the second act opener, “Bui Doi,” which occasionally feels like a Sally Struthers commercial and at other times...
Listen up, WB execs: It’s too late. The little wizard is already over-commercialized. Once directors and screenwriters and actors have lifted him from the books and projected him onto the glamor and glitz of the silver screen, no one will ever be able to separate Harry Potter from Daniel Radcliffe, and vice versa. Why ruin the imagination that Rowling seems to advocate so strongly? Once the movie studio makes a $120-million dollar blockbuster from an insanely popular children’s book, it has provided the public with enough franchise fodder to last another...