Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cute thinking machine might be able to teach real people something about moral philosophy appeals to you, then you may like Short Circuit. If, on the other hand, your taste in robots runs toward the apolitical comedy of Artoo Detoo, then Director John Badham's efficient realization of a script by S.S. Wilson and Brent Maddock may strike you as entirely too preachy keen. Ally Sheedy and Steve Guttenberg are the lovers matched by the machine; Austin Pendleton and Fisher Stevens are funny as, respectively, an ambiguous enemy and the malaprop-prone friend of what is finally just a pretty...
...copy," advises the author. And so, at $14.95 apiece, will Fatherhood. But just in case, Doubleday has planned a $300,000 promotion campaign, and will swamp stores with a first printing of 750,000 copies. Featuring an introduction and afterword by Dr. Alvin F. Poussaint, the Harvard psychiatrist and script adviser on Cosby's hit TV series, the 192-page parental primer is already a Literary Guild selection. A new comedy album, called Those of You With or Without Children, You'll Understand, will be released shortly, to boost and be boosted by the book...
With such a collection of heavy-trendy names involved, one would hope that high quality production values would compensate for an insipid script and talentless acting. But if any money was spent on Blue City, it's tough to see where it went. The outtakes from Miami Vice have got to look better than this...
WHICH IS why our disbelief does manage to be suspended. All the characters in the script are caricatures and all the players in the play are characters. In a production like Gargantua, it's of paramount importance that the actors seem like they're having a good time so that the audience can't helped being sucked into the fun. For this feat, the entire company deserves lavish praise...
...three segments feature unrelated storylines. One describes the adventures of Gus Gespacho, a private detective reminiscent of Philip Marlowe; another depicts the life and times of a small-town boy who wants to make it big in cowtipping. The third script, called "Ed the Busdriver vs. the Shriners from Hell," focuses on life after a nuclear...