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Unfortunately, it is difficult to get past the beautiful scenery and period sets to the true meaning underneath. With narration by Redford, the film opens with sepia-tone photographs of turn-of-the-century main street contrasted with the Montana wilderness. It's clear that Redford wishes Maclean's childhood had been...
Zaks' invaluable partner in achieving the nostalgic yet far from sepia look of the show was Walton, 57, a Briton who first earned a reputation for designing elegant period drawing rooms until he "tired of having a recognizable style not arising from the play itself." Now Walton likes to immerse himself in the world of a play: weeks after Guys and Dolls has opened, his living-room coffee table is still a shambles of books by and about Runyon and his times. He views research as "the treat part of the job, like going to school without the horrors...
Bruce Goodrich's set is suitably angular and spartan--a wooden wall lined with a grim row of sepia photographs forms the background. And a lectern, table and three chairs (all at severe right angles to each other) serve as the only furniture. The set's rigidity contrasts well with the informality of Atkins' movements and gestures, just as the bright green table cloth sets off her purple suit...
Good question, especially since the fair-haired, fair-skinned Malones had identified themselves as white on their first applications. Eventually the twins, now 33, claimed that they did not learn they were black until 1976, when, they say, their mother discovered a sepia photograph of a pale-looking woman she said was their black great-grandmother. Last month, after an investigation of their claim, they were fired...
...struggle continues on the field during the World Series games, in the tension between the Chicago team members trying to throw the games and those trying to win them. Sayles makes the baseball action look real and unstaged. This authenticity, along with the sepia-toned cinematography, reinforces the image of baseball as a supposedly innocent event...