Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Fatal Attraction was conceived by English Screenwriter-Director Dearden eight years ago as a 45-minute film called Diversion. In 1983 Producers Lansing and Stanley R. Jaffe hired Dearden to write a feature-length script based on his idea. (Later, Screenwriter-Director Nicholas Meyer rewrote some of the scenes involving Dan's family, which Paramount executives had thought insufficiently sympathetic.) Michael Douglas was in on the project early, but Close arrived only after Debra Winger had rejected the role and Barbara Hershey was unavailable. The film began shooting in September 1986 under Lyne's direction. Flashdance had proved that Lyne...
...cast does fairly well in demanding roles. Prascak's script calls for difficult switches between disparate modes--such as clever word play and campy melodrama--and the actors always maintain their composure. Especially good were Bader and Adam Hyman, who played Raphael, Death's assistant. Although the procession of scenes was somewhat disjointed and hasty, an intervening week of rehearsals has probably smoothed many of the difficulties...
Salomy took some liberties with the script, with mixed results. The inclusion of readings from De Quincey's satiric essay "On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts" and from the New York Times' grisly converage of a related 1924 murder gave the plot additional credibility. But his decision to play the last scene with alternate endings only weakens a climactic curtain...
...three's odyssey to the mainstage began last spring when Hainsworth suggested to his friends that they produce the Brecht play, which he saw performed at Canada's Stratford Festival the previous year. Noonan and Cibula read the script and agreed. They ther submitted a proposal to the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatics Club (HRDC...
...faculty committee in dramatic arts, which must approve the HRDC's choices for the mainstage, agreed. Says noted playwright and committee member Professor William Alfred, "They told me why they thought the play would be the most viable in terms of not only the quality of the director and script but also how it fit in with other things on the program...