Word: scripted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...movie, a 45-minute compilation of two and three-minute sketches spoofing everything from Hyatt Legal Services to a capella singing, is a tongue-in-cheek tribute to the wonder of video. At its best, the film is a well-worked parody of television's silliness; unfortunately, the script's tendency toward cliche and its occasional poor editing detract from its potential humor...
...movie's problems lie chiefly in the script itself. Lengthy jokes about condoms and parodies of Morton Downey, Jr. (one skit called "The Morton Downey Family Show" is a depiction of what "Leave it to Beaver" would have been like with Mort as Ward Cleaver) have been done too many times to be funny anymore. Script problems combined with poor editing lead to skits that come off as stale and cliched...
HEATHERS. There's a disturbing mortality rate among Westerburg High's snooty elite. A rash of suicides? Or is someone killing the prom queens of Ohio? Daniel Waters' witty script touches two stark teen issues: the need to be accepted and the urge...
...does the film offer the easy pleasures of a conventional movie bio. Earl Mac Rauch's script mixes fantasy and fact in an ambitious, if muddled, attempt at surrealistic psychodrama. In the opening scene, the dead Belushi (played by newcomer Michael Chiklis) wakes up in a morgue, escapes in a gown resembling the toga he wore in Animal House and meets a guardian angel in the guise of a taxi driver (Ray Sharkey). Their conversations are intermingled with time- jumbled flashbacks of Belushi's life, snippets of his comedy material and scenes of Woodward pursuing the story...
...biographer, who teaches film courses at St. John's University in New York City, also provides valuable evidence that blunts film critic Pauline Kael's assertion that Herman J. Mankiewicz, not Welles, was mainly responsible for the final script for Citizen Kane. Mank, as he was known, does get credit for the basic plot and the "Rosebud" sled gimmick, but most of the words belong to Welles, who, after all, had to speak them as the film's protagonist, Charles Foster Kane. Among the footnotes to this classic is Steven Spielberg's purchase at auction of one of three sleds...