Word: scripting
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With the promise of no cigar jokes, the Hasty Pudding Theatricals touted the script of their 151st show, "I Get No Kick From Campaign" as a political spoof...
Pudding executives chose the script, written by Greg G. Lau '99 and Benjamin R. Kaplan '99, who is an inactive Crimson editor, from three other scripts. Its title is a take-off on the Cole Porter classic, "I Get No Kick From Champaign...
Among the characters are Stella-Virgin and Donatello-My-Wife, but Pudding staff said the authors began writing the script long before President Clinton's sex life was a national focus...
...genius of Ronin is that it slyly but quite openly acknowledges the abstract state at which the action film has arrived. The title is the Japanese word for samurai who have lost their master and must hire themselves out as amoral and dispassionate mercenaries. The script, by J.D. Zeik and Richard Weisz (a pseudonym for David Mamet), applies the term to former CIA and KGB agents who are now obliged to work for terrorists and other international thugs, with no ideology to justify their exertions. It sets a bunch of them--including Robert De Niro, Jean Reno, Stellan Skarsgard...
...House would dearly love to get away with: President Clinton cops a plea of perjury, Congress censures (rather than impeaching) him in return, and the nation moves on. It's a possibility implicitly if not officially recognized by top Democrats, who finally seem to be reading from the same script again. Tom Daschle and Dick Gephardt both declared their impatience with Clinton's legal "hairsplitting" Monday; Gephardt called on Congress to use "common sense for the good of the country," while Daschle spoke of a "prompt, appropriate conclusion in the public interest." White House spokesman Jim Kennedy, for his part...