Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lies in the tension between the comedy and the tragedy. Upset the balance and that vital tension can be lost. In the Adams production, the comedy gets so free a reign that the conterpoint suffers and the audience, rather than finding themselves intrigued by the comic possibilities of the script, find themselves more confused about when they should and should not laugh...
...lack of subtlety is the script's fault, not the production's. Another, more serious problem with the script is simply that it's dated. The problems that these women face which were real dilemmas in the '70's, now seem dated and cliche. We are left feeling that there should still be something more, that exposing the problems is not enough, because we've all seen them before...
...wrote "Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad" and the Tony award-winning script for the play "Nine" will talk to budding dramatists tonight at the Agassiz Theater...
Kopit, who is currently working on a novel and an NBC-TV miniseries script, was active in Hasty Pudding dramatics and made his debut as a playwright at Harvard...
...cliffs, slits their throats, chops off their arms, breaks their necks, and blows them up. And, oh, yes: he also punches a steam pipe through his archenemy. "Let off some steam," he snarls--not exactly Noel Coward wit, but it is one of Schwarzenegger's favorite lines in the script. "The thing that separates me from the rest of the action leads, like Stallone, Eastwood and Norris, is that I bring in all this humor to my films," he says. "I love that, to have all this intensity, and then all of a sudden there is a funny line...