Word: scripting
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...need to connect to the audience that makes Man a more successful tragedy than Helgeland’s Mystic River script. Scott’s actors play their melodramatic roles with a grace that Sean Penn did not achieve in that film’s overwrought dinner-theater performance. This decision gives what is essentially a well-written straight-to-HBO Rutger Hauer flick a core that Mystic never achieved. Can you imagine what Christopher Walken would have been in Eastwood’s hands? Here, he underplays his role. Let me repeat that: Walken underplays a role. The last...
...Harvard Law School presents a modernist interpretation of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible. Director and professor Bruce Hay envisions the play as a parable of racial intolerance, including a controversial scene from the original script that’s found in the appendix and rarely performed, suggesting racial undertones in the work. Tickets $5 with Harvard I.D. (HBO). 7:30 p.m., with additional Saturday matinee at 2 p.m. Runs through April 24. Ames Courtroom Auditorium, Austin Hall...
...themselves were poor or whether the acting style failed to match. Certainly none of the dialogue was particularly awful, and all the sketches showed some promise; the simple fact that the show just wasn’t all that funny despite solid acting, however, suggests a failure of the script...
...Marines have been following a standard script for pacifying a city. First they encircled Fallujah to trap the insurgents inside and prevent reinforcements from coming to their aid. The cordon around Fallujah is an estimated three miles long by two miles across. Supplies of food and medicine are permitted in, and women, children and old men are allowed to flee on foot. A 7 p.m.--to--6 a.m. curfew forces civilians into their houses at night, when the U.S. military, with its night-vision devices, prefers to fight. Leaflets warn residents to gather in a single room if Marines enter...
...cultiest, NBC's one-season high school dramedy Freaks and Geeks, was just released in a massive collectors' compilation through freaksandgeeks.com Shipped in an 80-page "yearbook," the eight-disc set includes all 18 episodes, audition tapes, Museum of Television and Radio panel discussions, a never shot episode script, and commentary tracks by the producers, writers, studio executives, actors--and even the actors' parents. It is one of the most insanely complete TV artifacts ever and, at $120, one of the most expensive. (A more modest, six-disc set sells in stores for about $70.) Executive producer Judd Apatow says...