Word: casting
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...forms the foundation of the humanistic appreciation alumni need to confront what Bok calls "a world amply stocked with anxiety and disillusion...," then it is the essential preface to professional education. It cannot be the last and least priority of Harvard's president. Yet Bok's ordering of goals--cast in the 1978-79 report as a pitch for the Capital Fund Drive to finance Harvard's new directions--leads Harvard faculty and money away from direct encouragement of the liberal arts. It is not that Bok does not care about undergraduate education, it is just that he cares about...
...OSKAR, Schlondorff discovered David Bennent, a ten-year-old, blue-eyed, frozen-faced lad who himself stopped growing at age six. Surrounded by a superb supporting cast, Bennent's Oskar watches the world with angry insolence, determined to drum, to examine the world of adults with studied innocence. His voice has a contemptible condescending tone that nonetheless seduces us. His high-pitched screams that break glass--art as a destructive protest--ring with the desperate tremor of a genius creating a master-piece. Bennent is terrifying in a Nazi uniform yet his cherubic smile is almost Christ-like...
Getting on the ballot and raising money are only the immediate, pressing problems: the deeper one is the tendency of voters, even if they admire a third-party or independent candidate, to write off his cause as hopeless on Election Day and cast their ballots for the Democratic or Republican nominee. Anderson is well aware of the discouraging history of third-party and independent candidacies. He has resolved that he will drop out by fall, if his candidacy seems to be turning into a "spoiler" operation, in which his campaign becomes only a nuisance to the established candidates...
...cast isn't mammoth, but the costumes are-prehistoric animal skins. The dialogue consists of 14 words. That's Caveman, shooting in Mexico and starring Ringo Starr. The film is a campy comedy about cavemen who between club fights make such momentous discoveries as fried eggs, cooked meat and gay sex. Lack of lines doesn't bother Ringo, who has made plenty of wordy but forgettable flicks since the Beatles broke up. "It's far more creative to be able to transmit all these feelings without words," says he, adjusting skins far different from those...
Others in the cast, like Lawrence Aronovitch's Third Priest or Kevin Porter's Second Tempter, build more convincing vocal profiles, giving Eliot's conundrums a sonorous base. The four knights (John Piccione, Rick Reynolds, Ted Glowacky, and David Lanznar) also perform their dual task well, first doing away with Becket rudely and quickly, then tempting the audience to grant them forgiveness...