Word: version
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...TURN OF THE SCREW (Showtime, debuting Aug. 12, 10 p.m. EDT). Amy Irving stars as the Victorian governess with a ghost problem in this new version of Henry James' famous novella. The hour-long drama launches Shelley Duvall's new series, Nightmare Classics...
...insistence that people should just ignore these factors reeks of the kind of placating "polite feminism" or gradual action that does more damage to rights groups by discouraging any kind of real change. It is only a modified version of the "don't make waves" theory that the privileged class feeds the rest to ensure they remain...
Unless Bloch confesses, the U.S. may never learn his motives or how much damage he may have done. And so far he has held his own remarkably well against the mass-media version of the third degree...
This tormented sensibility also afflicts Sellars' gloomy version of Cosi. It is full of visual gags (the two heroes pretending to go to war are waved on by crowds carrying signs such as BURN THE SUPREME COURT), but it has very little of Mozart's cynical vivacity. The plot derives from a rather cruel bet: two young men agree to adopt disguises and try to seduce each other's fiancees. Alas, it proves all too easy, but after a reasonable amount of tears and outcries, everyone is reconciled at the end. Not in Sellars' version. Here they finish...
...maintained his business for decades in the same neighborhood, proud to have seen the local kids grow up on his food. But, despite his generosity and warmth for Blacks in the neighborhood, he is also capable of racism and violence when local Black youths disturb his romantic and idealized version of his life...