Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rating. But all that is now playing is the decadent decor, some menacing portents and a pair of actors (Mickey Rourke and Kim Basinger) looking for their motivations in various chic Manhattan locales. Adrian Lyne, late of Flashdance, directed this silliness, and three writers watched their script fall victim to the death of a thousand cuts. Maybe they should have photographed that...
...coalesces into an object on the page (or computer screen). But when written in longhand, the word is a differently and more personally styled object than when it is arrayed in linear file, each R like every other R. It is not an art form, God knows, in Toad script, not Japanese calligraphy. Printed (typed) words march in uniform, standardized, cloned shapes done by assembly line. But now, thought Toad, as I write this down in pencil, the words look like ragtag militia, irregulars shambling across the page, out of step, slovenly but distinctive...
...AMERICANS CAN cheer the recent federal appeals court decision declaring the Gramm-Rudman law unconstitutional. Federal judges decided that the Gramm-Rudman script to end the real-life version of "The Blob" was the wimps way out. Congress had run from the lobbyists...
...film is like a Texas-based Four Characters in Search of a Plot, with enough genuine emotion to sustain it, but not quite enough action to avoid straying into gratuitous sentimentality. The characters are all bursting with energy, but they are stifled by the formlessness of the script...
...OTHER CHARACTERS fall just a little short. As the daughter-in-law, Glynn is trapped in a one-dimensional role, handicapped by the shallowness of the script. We are constantly alerted to the fact that she is a heartless, tacky bitch, but the character is so overwrought that, despite some hints of depth, we never see enough complexity really to identify with her. Ditto for Thelma (Rebecca De Mornay), a young woman whom Page befriends in a bus station on the way to Bountiful. De Mornay's character is so unflinchingly sweet that when she suddenly and inexplicably disappears from...