Word: scripted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...headed back to Back to the Future? Yes, but with a sweeter, slower spin on the time machine. For while Robert Zemeckis' box-office champ of 1985 was a hip '80s teenager's look at his funny parents back in the '50s, Peggy Sue (whose script was written long before Future's release) is a panorama of the same terrain as seen by an adult full of remembrance and regret. The teen traveler played by Michael J. Fox was hurled back to a time he knew only from the decade's recycled pop culture. Peggy Sue's trip is spookier...
...Eric Ambler, or perhaps Helen MacInnes? No matter: either mystery writer could have written the script for last week's intense negotiations to free U.S. News & World Report Correspondent Nicholas Daniloff, accused by the Soviets of being an American spy. There were plot twists: unscheduled diplomatic meetings and a nighttime passage through a delivery entrance at the U.S. mission to the U.N. There was George Shultz in the Soviet mission and Eduard Shevardnadze at the U.S. headquarters. There was maddeningly incomplete information. From Shultz: "It's under discussion. It isn't settled yet." From Shevardnadze...
...ACTION of the play opens with Komachi collecting cigarette butts from the ground. Graham is hunched over a bit but neither her movements nor her voice suggest a tortured, remorseful old woman. Her speech is too clear and sharp for the naturalistic mood of the script...
Adrian D. Blake '88, who co-wrote the Pudding script, says he had a great time working and "thinking up funny things" with Tolins. "I work with him great. We'd sit in front of old Mary Tyler Moore shows and steal the gags," he jokes. "But seriously, he's good to write comedy with because he is able to laugh at himself...
...praise Tolins gets from his peers is so lavish that at times his theatrical co-workers can't avoid giving their enthusiasm for him the little extra push that is all it needs to turn into self-parody. "He knows everything about everything," complains fellow Pudding script writer Blake. "He hits a golf ball better than I do, he has to shave more often than I do, and he was a great Little League baseball player...