Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...troubled, divided soul that French Director Louis Malle (The Lovers, Murmur of the Heart) uncovers in Alamo Bay. The script is based on a conflict that exploded in the late '70s on the Texas Gulf Coast. In the film town of Port Alamo, "Anglo" shrimp fishermen battle the current, the depressed prices and the influx of Vietnamese refugees plying an old trade in a new land. Shang (Ed Harris) is one such rowdy all-American, working his ancestral fishing grounds and feeling threatened by the Asians he fought to defend a world and a war ago. Dinh (Ho Nguyen...
...Texas cadences: "Darlin', these biscuits are old enough to vote." More impressive, she creates in Shang an American hero whose every good impulse--pride, the work ethic, a need to stand firm for what he figures is his--turns him into a monster with a red neck. The script would have been even stronger if Dinh had been allowed some convulsive ambiguities of his own. Instead, he must simply endure, selfless and sexless. Such is the yellow man's burden in films of the liberal persuasion...
...Circle Award as best play, and was justly likened to Ah, Wilderness! and Our Town as a nostalgic celebration of lost family virtues. The show also made a star of Matthew Broderick; he won a Tony as the narrator, the precocious Eugene Morris Jerome, whose wry journal entries the script purported...
Even the tourists in Hollywood have a script idea they would like someone to consider. Soviet Poet Turned Filmmaker Yevgeni Yevtushenko, 51, is no exception. He once wanted to make a movie of Cyrano de Bergerac in the U.S.S.R., but authorities turned down the plan. Now he is in California trying to sell Hollywood capitalists on his latest project: a movie about the last years of D'Artagnan and the aging three musketeers. The creator of the 1984 Soviet film Kindergarten describes his new script as a "sparkling tragedy" about the "relationship of heroic people with the Establishment. I think...
Five hundred guests, mostly ARI subscribers, will bid on over 240 items and services, according to the auction's organizers. Most of the smaller prizes--including a script from "All in the Family" signed by Norman I car--will be on display early in the evening for a silent auction, while the truly quirky goods will not be sold until after...