Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cliffies) write offers to come over and read aloud to us your illegible remarks--we can (officially) read anything, and we may be married. Write on both sides of the page--single-blue-book finals look like less work to grade, and win points. This chic, shaded calligraphic script so many are affecting lately is handsome, and is probably worth a good five extra points if you can hack...
...England in the mid-'70s. Like Superstar, Evita was first released as a record. The task of getting it onstage devolved upon Director Prince; watching Prince put the show together turned out to be a most instructive lesson for Lloyd Webber. "When I came into Evita, there was no script, just a lot of numbers in a shape to tell a story," remembers Prince. "We moved some numbers around and made a straight line, added tension and all the rest. To me this was a strange process of coming up with a show, working from an album backward." Prince...
...part, Gish proves that she can work as well in sound films as in silent ones. Gish creates a likeable woman of amazing stamina, if ordinary intellect. This is an achievement, considering the script she's given--she has to talk to a picture and act obsessed with the whales she hopes to see off the coast (they predict the coming of fall...
...PRINCESS BRIDE Like Broadway's Into the Woods, William Goldman's script throws an open-house party for fairy-tale heroes, villains and a beyond- gorgeous princess (Robin Wright). Revisionist fun for the whole family...
Professionally, Williams looks to keep on flooring it over those cones. He may soon take the reins of his movie career and write himself a script. Next fall he plans to play Estragon, with Steve Martin as Vladimir, in the Mike Nichols production of Waiting for Godot -- thus synthesizing Juilliard and wackiness. Personally, however, Williams is quieter, more settled. He is past bouts of alcohol and cocaine dependence. Separated from his wife of nine years, he now keeps company with his personal secretary, Marsha Garces. And he is famously devoted to his four-year-old son Zachary...