Word: scripting
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Kane offers an acute view of American politics that applies today as much as it did then. Like Silvio Berlusconi and Michael Bloomberg, Kane (Welles) is a media magnate who runs for office. Like Mark Foley, he is caught in a sexual scandal just before the election. The brilliant script by Herman J. Mankiewicz and Welles is about a powerful man's need to be loved by the millions of people whose lives he dominates. And when they jilt him, he rationalizes the rejection by spinning tales of conspiracy. His newspaper runs the headline FRAUD AT POLLS...
...tempted to compare the two men's existential dilemma to that of a Samuel Beckett play. There are differences, though. Instead of being buried to the neck in sand, or stranded on the road to nowhere, Lawrence (Cary Elwes) and Adam (Leigh Whannel, who also wrote the script) are chained on opposite sides of a Stygian bathroom, with a lifeless body between them...
...they have a family, what different economic backgrounds they come from, how they were raised—and challenged them to create a purpose for being here and really to understand the desire that each one of these characters has. And although that is not conveyed directly through the script, it is conveyed through the way [our actors] choose to perform and represent these characters. Shields: As far as our actual actors go, we’ve done a lot of exercise in cast bonding, just to make sure the dynamics are all there.The experiences and stories of the characters...
...money is an issue,” says Joshua C. Phillips ’07. He has been extremely involved with theater while at Harvard, participating in a dozen HRDC shows, performing in the Hasty Pudding Theatricals, and writing this year’s Hasty Pudding script, as well as being a member of the Signet Society. “A life in arts is famously rough for most people, especially starting out. It’s a big risk,” he says. Phillips is currently applying to Bain & Company and McKinsey & Company, both premier corporate consulting firms...
...Slovakian ones. In addition to Tarantino and Rodriguez's Grindhouse, 2007 will bring a full sicko slate, including Hostel: Part II, a retooling of Halloween by Zombie and The Hills Have Eyes II. "These movies aren't for everybody," admitted Zombie, the day after he turned in his Halloween script. But they don't have to be. "I see trailers for movies like [romantic weepie] The Lake House, and I think, I would have to rip my eyes out of my head to sit through that. But that's somebody's favorite movie." And somewhere, at some sleepover this weekend...