Word: segments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What they saw was an intricate, finely co-ordinated process where a 30-second segment could take several hours of filming. The directors insisted on absolute quiet--which meant, for example, that after closing down Plympton St on Monday for The Crimson scene, they ordered the Adams House construction workers to take a break. They insisted on authenticity--which meant that extras wilted in their sweaters and down jackets in the 90-degree heat pretending it was late fall And they demanded thorough coverage and perfect expression. Which meant, then, that each scene had to be filmed at three...
...stock. Shares of TI, one of the world's largest manufacturers of silicon chips, dropped 40 points in one day, trimming nearly $1 billion from the company's paper value. On the heels of Atari's multimillion-dollar loss last quarter, it looked as if one segment of the computer revolution was wobbling...
...predecessor is clamorous. A lyrical melody floats above a simple, slightly shifting rhythmic pattern. A shadowy frieze of girls, tracing small, varied steps, embodies the pattern; two dancers (Maria Caligari, Bart Cook) perform a sinuous pas de deux to the melody. This is a mesmerizing piece. The last segment, to a boisterous excerpt from Glass's opera Akhnaten, is what his fans call "very Jerry": arms up, fingers splayed, keep it moving, get it right the first time. Across, around, up and down the stage sweep cadres of long leapers. Despite its energy, this choreography does not have quite...
Twilight Zone: The Movie burst into the third dimension of real life and death last July, when Actor Vic Morrow and two children were killed when a helicopter crashed during the filming of their segment. Morrow plays a bigoted businessman who learns the True Meaning of Racial Injustice when transported to Nazi-occupied France, a Klan lynching and a G.I. patrol in Viet Nam. Landis, who also contributes the engaging prologue to Twilight Zone, would have been well advised to junk his screechy screed. Even with the helicopter sequence mercifully cut, the story hardly looks worth shooting, let alone dying...
Spielberg's segment (based on a 1962 TV episode called Kick the Can) means to demonstrate his familiar compact with the movie audience: "If you believe, I can make you all feel like children." So speaks the endearing Scatman Crothers, presenting the gift of renewed youth to a home full of old folks. Once again Spielberg is cranking up the magic machine that has served him so well. This time the spell does not hold; one can hear only the machinery, purring like a contented windup kitten...