Word: script
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Several systems of transliteration to relate Chinese script to the 26-letter Roman alphabet have been used in the U.S., Egan said, but until recently Wade-Giles was the commonly accepted system...
...that may sound improbably melodramatic, but it plays just fine. The credit belongs in part to Director Bridges for his sure handling of the action and in part to a script that makes us really care for Fonda and Lemmon. It seems almost superfluous to praise Fonda anew, but she is truly at the peak of her talent these days. Nobody has done a better characterization of the vacuity of the TV news "personality" −the little moments of makeup-mirror vanity snatched against deadline pressure, the falseness of on-camera performances that must never really look like performances...
...science-fiction spoof expanded from a film school project, called Dark Star.) The basic situation and central characters, actors' mannerisms and shards of dialogue are derived from Rio Bravo, a late Howard Hawks film. Assault largely inexperienced cast lurches beneath the preposterous weight of a self-consciously anachronistic script. The dialogue is as tersely as any Hawk's film, and it is often difficult to tell whether the actors mouthing it are sarcastic or inept. All the same, spry gusts of parody whip around the edges of certain lines and actions. There is for example, a disarmingly silly moment when...
Unfortunately, The Boston Shakespeare Company's production of Two Gentlemen falls headlong into the traps set by the flawed script. If many of Shakespeare's works invite reinterpretation, this one almost demands it. However, director William Lacey opts for a traditional construction of the script, playing much of it merely for laughs, and thus fails to adequately explore the darker side of the comedy or compensate for its flaws...
...Though he looks like an emaciated Ted Baxter--complete with stiff face and silver hair--he carries off the more serious side of Valentine adequately. Woronicz provides a decent opposite to Catherine Rust's marvelous Silvia. Echoing Juliet's poignancy, Silvia is the best realized character in Shakespeare's script, and Rust does the part justice and more. Her voice shakes with genuine emotion and her gestures have none of the stiffness that hampers the rest of the cast. She saves the production from utter desuetude...