Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Here we go again; another four years of our national soap opera, with Reagan playing the lead role. But how will the script end, with a whimper or a bang...
However whenever Bancroft is onscreen, Lumet's dallying film becomes rejuvenated. Although Bancroft must combat a simple script, her throaty voice, and earthy no-nonsense approach to living and dying, make her character a truly endearing woman. In her small hospital room, she watches the Knicks, reads about the labor movement and encourages her nurse to fight for a contract...
...ONLY here, on the role of Martin Dysart, that the Leverett House production stumbles. Chad Raphael's performance begins at a high pitch, revealing Dysart's inner conflict early and thus leaving little room for its development. But this approach eliminates the dramatic tension inherent in the script. Ideally, what should appear at first as Dysart's doubts about the usefulness of psychiatry should only later evolve into a professional and personal crisis...
...With the script, CAP workers provide a two-hour introduction for parents, with some straight facts on sex abuse and suggested ways of encouraging their children to tell about any thing off-color that may have happened with an adult. "An offender will scare a kid," says a CAP worker, and "tell him his parents won't love him any more. So you have to defuse that strategy ahead of time...
...week to writing her column on an IBM word processor. Some of her mail, which may be useful later (she has to work two months in advance), gets saved in wooden trays with such labels as Weddings, Business or Diverse Civilities; other letters receive a standard answer in engraved script on cream paper ("Miss Manners regrets exceedingly...