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...more chances. The actors frequently step out of character for asides to the camera, and the show may break completely from format on a whim. One of this season's episodes featured a seven-minute Gene Kellyesque dance number. Another was an elaborate parody of The Taming of the Shrew done in Elizabethan costume and mock iambic pentameter...
Such inventiveness does not come cheap. The Taming of the Shrew segment cost a reported $3 million -- nearly twice the show's usual $1.6 million an episode, already well above average for an hour show. Because of the ultrafast dialogue, scripts average 95 pages, compared with about 60 for a typical TV hour, and take ten to twelve days to shoot (eight for most shows). Much of the production disarray, however, can be traced to Caron, 32, a portly ex-writer for Remington Steele. Co-workers describe him as a perfectionist who thrives on working close to deadlines and asking...
Dijkstra's thesis is a familiar feminist argument: that the 19th century man wanted women to remain passive, dependent, domestic and obedient, and that any female who ventured to differ was regarded as at best a shrew and at worst a witch or even a vampire. He buttresses this argument with evidence from both high culture and high camp. He decries Henry James' Verena Tarrant (in The Bostonians) and Tennyson's Lady of Shalott for their dim-witted self- sacrifice, and he manages to get angry about even such endearing targets as Dracula and Trilby...
...about security for the opening at Haddo House, a Scottish village hall not far from the royal summer retreat of Balmoral. The star of the show, don't you know, was Prince Edward, 22. Last summer, taking a minor role in an amateur production of The Taming of the Shrew, he disported himself so well -- and, not incidentally, sold out the hall every night -- that this year he was asked back to star in The Magistrate, a Victorian farce. Edward manfully summons up the sullen shallowness of a 19-year-old rogue being passed off as a 14-year...
...sudsy TV mini-series as Mistral's Daughter and Sins, got the part. "Connery and Moore are tough acts to follow," says Dalton, practicing Bond's good manners. Is playing 007 a comedown for someone who has been Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights and Petruchio in The Taming of the Shrew? Not at all, says Dalton. "Bond is one of the few major roles for British actors...