Word: scripted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...covers of the celebrity magazines and into an interview by Barbara Walters on ABC's 20/20. She is now served by agents and career advisers, and has broken into big-time modeling for a new line of sportswear called No Excuses. "I make no excuses," says her script. "I only wear them...
...York City, Cosby goes into rehearsals at a historic studio in Queens, where his show has transferred from its base in Brooklyn during a technicians' strike against nbc. About 7 p.m. Wednesday, after the final run- through, the cast is dismissed. Cosby still wants to pore over the script and fix a couple of scenes that eight-year-old Keshia Knight Pulliam is finding troublesome. But he will do that at home, after dinner...
...influence is also seen in the show's frequent, but uninsistent, references to black culture. When Son Theo has to read a book for school, chances are it will be Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man; when Denise is considering colleges, all-black schools are the topic of discussion. Each script is reviewed by Poussaint to ensure psychological credibility and avoid negative stereotyping. His sanitizing hand can be as heavy as a network censor's. In the original script for one Halloween episode, Vanessa and a friend were to dress up as a witch and Captain Hook. Poussaint vetoed both, arguing...
...lawyer with a wife (the lovely Anne Archer), a child and a career to lose if his two-night stand is discovered. That the two principals are ostensibly mature professionals, not adolescent airheads, gives the film some of its fatal attractiveness. So do James Dearden's plausible, nicely observant script, Adrian Lyne's elegantly unforced direction, and Close's beautifully calibrated descent into lunacy. Together they bring horror home to a place where the grownup moviegoer actually lives. Men will suddenly, squirmingly, recall times when they barely escaped the consequences of their caprices. Women have been seen emerging from this...
...Chill" crowd. The idea was to invoke the spirit of J.F.K.'s "New Frontier" and the "commitment" of the '60s. Biden didn't have the fire in the belly in '84, and Caddell brought his master plan to Gary Hart. After that election he updated the script for 1988 and got the leading man he'd wanted all along...