Word: laughingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...film behind the hullabaloo has been a decade in gestation, beginning in 1979 when producers Peter Guber and Jon Peters obtained the movie rights. What took so long? At first the project was greeted with tremendous skepticism. "I'd say I was doing a Batman film, and people would laugh," recalls Peters. "They saw him as a guy in tights, and unlike Superman, he didn't fly." Finding a suitable script proved an additional problem. Early drafts followed Batman from the childhood trauma of seeing his parents gunned down by vicious Jack Napier. "You had to wade through 20 years...
...seem arid or acid to anyone who couldn't enjoy, say, a Restoration comedy as it might be played on Dynasty. But in a season when most movies are remakes of most other movies, Scenes is an original. And if you are in the right black mood, you could laugh till your nose bleeds...
...failed it in eighth grade," he says. But after a laugh, he turns serious and explains why he chose to introduce himself by that name the following year, when he entered Phillips Andover Academy...
Then we heard the words that would set us free: "Dark-skin Blacks." At the same time, we reached out, instinctively, and showed him our nearly-red Black (a former girlfriend once told me I was closer to orange than Black) arms. I had to suppress a laugh, as I wondered if whites are ever identified as light-skin and dark-skin whites...
When Michael and I were set free, we both had a hard time not laughing at the incident. Should we have been upset? Or was it just too silly for us to get upset? It was the secret between the two of us that made each of us grin, even laugh, when we looked at one another that night...