Word: semis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...problem with Barfly is that it has a mission. This is to glorify the life of the Los Angeles beat poet Charles Bukowski, who wrote the semi-autobiographical script. Now Bukowski has a terrific literati-on-the-skids persona; more downwardly mobile than Kerouac or Burroughs, more degenerate than Ginsberg. He came of age as a writer in the same kind of desolate, marginal, flophouse and seedy bar milieu that Schroeder evokes so effectively in the film. And he's a fine writer--the problem is that you'd never know it from the script, which struck...
...production's informality makes the play diminishes tension even further. The play is staged in the round, on a scenery-free platform whose only feature is a large cube in the center. The costumes are modern and semi-casual (jackets and ties for the men, dresses for most of the women); the actors look like Harvard students at a master...
...people want to spend $20 to see semi-pro football, that's fine," added Caron, now a football coach and graduate student at Williams College...
...wouldn't be such a bad idea if the Ivy League adopted the non-sudden-death overtime. After all, the Ivy League has been the conference of innovation since football began giving football the 11-man team, the word "gridiron," and the emphasis on sportsmanship and academics over semi-professionalism...
Referring to Hahn's decision to pose semi-nude and testifying she was victimized, Bakker's attorney, Melvin Belli, said Tuesday, "I think that for a poor, naive young girl, she's learned the ways of the world very fast...