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...Stadium at the climax of the Opening Ceremony's hourlong Australian cultural showcase. As tap dancers gave way to 13-year-old Nikki Webster and Djakapurra Munyarryun being levitated together toward the heavens, fireworks erupted across a screen in the shape of the Harbour Bridge, with Stace's copperplate script emblazoned...
...tableau of seamless, often gorgeous image-making, it was the wobble of that flame that made it all memorable - and the other bursts of spontaneity that broke through the tightly controlled script. Many of these came with the Parade of Athletes, when not even on-field prompters could hurry the joyful gambol of competitors claiming center stage. As the ceremony's artistic director, David Atkins, later quipped, "You can't get Brazil to march in straight lines." Then, as the evening moved into overdrive, there was diva Tina Arena's deep breath, and wink to the orchestra, before she launched...
...Vidal's intimate knowledge of politics and politicians informs the cast, as well as the script. Mark Blum, who plays Russell's campaign manager, recounts an anecdote about mudslinging Gore told: "At one point Jackie Kennedy said to Gore, 'I know we have this whole big list of stuff on Nixon and I don't know why we just don't use it.' And Gore said 'Well, Jackie, you better be pretty damn glad we don't, because if we use ours, they use theirs...
...These stories - Spalding Gray, who plays Russell, calls it "creative gossip" - make the script more alive and present for the actors. "When you have Gore around all of a sudden you're one degree of separation from all of this American history that he's writing about in this play," says Ethan McSweeney, the 29-year-old director making his Broadway debut with "The Best Man." (McSweeney, incidentally, is a Washingtonian whose family is friendly with that other Gore, the one running for president...
Just how closely was made clear in a similar memo two weeks later to DNC chairman Don Fowler from party staffer Payne. The memo, obtained by TIME, provided a suggested script for Fowler to use in his call to Umphrey: "Sorry you missed the Vice President: I know [you] will give $100K when the President vetoes tort reform, but we really need it now. Please send ASAP if possible...