Word: soaping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Soap scrubs mercilessly to reveal the "schizophrenic realities" of TV soap operas. A satire. And a play within a play written by Allan Albert and performing at the Proposition Theatre, 241 Hampshire Street, Cambridge. Thursdays at 8:30 and Friday at 8 and 10. Call 876-0088 for more info...
...some curious questions-prominent among them is why President Franklin Roosevelt turned the St. Louis away from the shores of Florida*-and comes up way short on answers. Director Stuart Rosenberg (The Drowning Pool) and Scenarists Shagan (Save the Tiger) and Butler are primarily interested in letting the shipboard soap operas play out to their predictable conclusions: Will the Werner-Dunaway marriage unthaw on the bounding main? Will Lee Grant be able to control her melancholiac husband, who is, she announces, "retreating into himself? "Your orders come straight from Berlin. If you refuse to accept them, be prepared to accept...
...colleague Network President Robert Wussler (they occasionally wave to each other from their windows). Silverman arrives at 9:30 each morning and begins rousing his West Coast producers from bed to discuss the overnight ratings. The rest of his day is a marathon of meetings-with soap-opera writers, sitcom producers, cartoon animators, promotion experts, demographics wizards. He returns to his Central Park West apartment for dinner with his wife Cathy and their daughter Melissa, 4, then holes up in his den with a stack of scripts, a rack of video cassettes and two cassette players, which he watches simultaneously...
...automated competition and a radical son who tries to talk revolutionary politics to the befuddlement of most of the black employees and to the great contempt of the one among them who is politically committed. A few incidents occur to liven things up as the cars roll through the soap and spray: a hooker stiffs a cab driver for his fare and hides out in the ladies' room; a black evangelist (Richard Pryor) and his entourage splashily tool up to get a bird dropping removed from his customized limo; one of the polishers wins a prize on a radio...
...Soap. The Proposition's word or daytime TV, at the Proposition Theater 241 Hampshire Street, Cambridge Thursday at 8:30 and Friday...