Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With Wetherby, David Hare, a reknowned playwright in England, an experienced stage director of his own works, and author of Plenty, has entered the realm of movies with ease: his direction always illuminates his script. Never slow, the screenplay delivers equal amounts of disdain and understanding for the overexposed minds of Hare's compatriots. Hare's jabs, though, are the most fun, as they make for thrilling moments of silly bickering and academic idiocy--one invited dinner guest keeps insisting "Define your terms!" His characters are appealing--when they aren't incensed suicides--no matter how Hare intends otherwise. Some...
...along, everybody jumps in a rabbit hole. There just has to be a composure aspect. I looked in the eyes on the sideline and I saw different people. I saw different body language on the sideline. I saw the quarterback become totally unravelled. We went on a 60-play script. Everything was scripted...I figured if we practiced these [60 plays] all week, we might have something on them...
...That's why at the end [when] they wanted to do something, I said, 'get in there. I'm finishing the script...
...leading poet-anthropologist of the contemporary urban landscape, an artist with a special feeling for the near psychopathic outsider, battering brutally but ineptly on the doors of bourgeois normality. In this movie, working on a $3.5 million shoestring, he has cunningly reversed himself. For Joseph Minion's script casts a representative of normality as the outsider, the avant-garde's lunatic fringe as the insiders. They may keep weird hours, embrace extraordinary life-styles and befuddling living arrangements, but they are a community. All the characters Paul thinks he is encountering at random turn out to be related in curious...
...very deep." Concedes Creator Yerkovich: "In the long run you can only rely so much on color coding and Bauhaus architecture and the Versace spring catalog." Yet Vice may be revving up to move beyond such trendy props. "As soon as they get a handle on the script situation," says Yerkovich, "the show is going to burn rubber." With Crockett and Tubbs at the wheel of their Ferrari, designer jackets whipping in the wind, the TV world had better run for cover...