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...cast’s fairly lifeless supporting players. While her performance does have its moments—Lanie’s moments of dumbstruck awe at Jack’s successful clairvoyance, and its implications for her fate, are believable enough—she has to struggle against the script, and in the end it’s a losing battle. Despite her best efforts, we never really get a sense of who Lanie is, making it difficult for an audience to take an interest in her trevails. In the end, after I learned of Lanie’s fate...
...Nightfall recognized as a student group last October. James Lawler, who also lived in Cabot House, heard about Newkirk’s idea and approached him bearing a screenplay called Angel Walk that he had written over the summer at a Harvard screenwriting workshop. Newkirk accepted the script gratefully and the two waited for approval on the club...
...spite of the difficulties of shooting the script, Lawler was overjoyed to finally be finishing his dream. “It’s like having an orgasm for six days,” he says. “I just...I love doing it.” He looks forward eagerly to The Great Givendi, his next fiction film, to be shot over the summer. He is being joined on this project by Catherine Sheehan, the co-writer and producer of Givendi, and Julia Reischel, who is doing the casting for the film...
...There’s the idea that somehow because certain choices were made, they were made for a certain uniqueness as opposed to for a kind of legitimacy or solution,” McClelland says. “I think the choices bring out the best parts of the script or the tale or the people...
...Robeson often signed for films expecting script approval, only to feel trapped in stereotype by the time of shooting. So the camera catches him in the corpse of his original enthusiasm--an actor's version of passive resistance. Perhaps his naivety was as huge as his talent. He believed that Hollywood moguls would give a black actor (any actor) final cut, and that Stalinism was not slavery but liberation. Through three decades of Soviet tyranny (including the murder of one of his Russian-Jewish friends), he remained faithful to the U.S.S.R. And here his charm failed him. He could sell...