Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Perhaps it is the fault of director Jeffrey Zaks or perhaps it is the weakness of the script itself, but the play's shift from slapstick None of the characters are developed enough to make their suffering believable and the play's broad beginning leaves the audience unprepared for any profound message hold coda might hold. Despite all the hoopla, Sister Mary's bark is a lot worse than her bite...
...William Safire, a Reagan supporter and former Nixon speechwriter, suggested last week that Mondale might yet put on a stretch drive reminiscent of Silky Sullivan, a horse that ran a quarter-century ago and was famous for close finishes in races that appeared hopelessly lost. Safire even provided a script of sorts. Key elements...
...boast a more stunning sense of style. But New Wave Disco Queen Grace Jones, 32, has been knocking men out in a more direct fashion on location in France for the new James Bond film, A View to a Kill. The script casts Jones as May Day, who tries to outfox Her Majesty's secret agent. One scene called for Jones to hoist a 6-ft., 180-lb. KGB agent over her head to put him in his place. Jones says she could have lifted Actor Bogdan Kominowski on her own, but the studio insisted that supporting wires...
...Critics Circle has just named Ironweed the best novel of 1983." "Congratulations. Ironweed has been awarded a Pulitzer Prize." Callers from the West Coast snatched up the film rights to earlier novels, Legs and Billy Phelan's Greatest Game. Francis Ford Coppola hired the author to write the script for his $45 million movie The Cotton Club; and the public library of Albany, New York State's capital and the author's home town, proclaimed a William Kennedy Day to honor its first native literary star since Bret Harte...
...with this film Benton, were he less modest and softspoken, could begin to advance a similar claim for himself. His script, honed from a 250-page first draft, is as sparing with words as it is rich in emotion. And some of the film's crucial moments are entirely free of meaningful dialogue. There is no better realization anywhere of a small town's sense of community than in the way Benton groups its citizens, first at a wake, then at a dance. At another moment, a pair of guilty lovers (Ed Harris and Amy Madigan), emblematic...