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...smoking "New Wave" filmmakers from L.A.; Carl Dorf, a self-exiled victim of McCarthyism; Dan Rashur, the wunderkind director with the Colgate smile; Sy Joelmersbagger, a tweedy history professor from Yale; and Sir Flute Parsons, an over-the-hill British screenwriter with a fondness for money and American boys. Wood gives each one his brief theatrical moment and tries to build an act out of a few comic situations (like Joe's constant run-ins with his assistant, Wesley) that can't last very long. He captures the movie jargon well ("be my file, Wes"; "we have to conceptualize...
...BRITISH are coming, the British are coming... British director Michael Kustow has landed at the American Repertory Theater with a new play by British playwright Charles Wood about the bumbling attempts of an Anglo-American team to shoot a film in Ireland about the American Revolution for the celebration of the American Bicentenial. It's less confusing than it sounds--Has "Washington" Legs? is pure farce with a dark side beneath, but it's too freewheeling to say anything well. The result is a two-hour burlesque show with some long gaps in between moments of high comedy...
Edwin Jones and Ronald Shaw contributed $80 each in 1978 to start Coastal Building and Solar in suburban San Diego. Operating out of Jones' wood-frame house and working twelve-hour days, the two men quickly built up their own re modeling business. By 1979 the company employed 15 part-time workers and had around $130,000 in business...
...first problem the two faced was with building inspectors. One city official, for example, approved running the wood siding on a building all the way down to the ground, but then another official made the businessmen change it so that the siding did not touch the earth. An inspector forced Shaw to modify the support system for a gabled roof, but then when he used the same method on another house, a different inspector banned it. Complains Shaw: "The problem is that you can't get mad at a building inspector because you have got to work with those...
...thing occurred. Not many people seemed to be listening or to care. Chief of Staff Jim Baker went cheerfully about the business of planning his office, confident that the personal relationships of the staff would in the end confound the chartmakers. Reagan was back on his ranch chopping more wood, which further flummoxed journalists who were in California to write about the President-elect preparing to shoulder the burdens of the world. They wrote interminably of the fact that there was nothing to write about...