Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Well, if a bunch of undergraduates decide to put on a show and fail to achieve a Hamlet or King Lear of truly tragic proportions, probably not. At least they tried. If the same people decide to produce a script as superficial and mediocre as, say, Fifth of July and charge admission, such a criticism is just...
WHATEVER. Stellar acting and inspired direction could have saved this baby, but no one seems to have any idea why they spent a semester bringing this script to life. For all the direction Hainsworth gives them, the whole cast may as well have come out of the Birdseye frozen food locker...
BERNARD BAILYN rarely takes on a project without the challenges of discovering attics of old letters, logbooks, and ledgers, or whole libraries of journals written in pre-Revolutionary script. His latest book, Voyagers to the West--A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution, fits right into the Bailyn tradition...
...Television, which staged a mock trial of Richard III for British TV in 1984. Looking for another historical crime to "try" on TV, the producers turned to the Kennedy assassination. Unlike earlier fictional treatments like the 1977 ABC movie The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald, the program has no script and (except for extras) uses no actors. Two prominent attorneys were enlisted to argue the case. For the prosecution: Vincent Bugliosi, 52, the former Los , Angeles deputy district attorney who prosecuted Charles Manson. For the defense: Gerry Spence, 57, who successfully represented Karen Silkwood's family in a suit against...
...enemies. Connery, who was born in Scotland, says that Chicago reminds him of Glasgow, though guns are much rarer in his native land. "In Glasgow, it's more hand-to-hand combat each time, and you can never be sure what will happen." Unless, of course, there is a script, which usually places Connery on the winning side...