Word: onscreen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...boyfriend Jack, has done a marvelous job of allowing the story to unfold effortlessly; he treats his subject with a lively mix of humor and dignity and helps a touching story blossom to a very fulfilling life onscreen...
...movie in London, Paris, Tokyo and, on New Year's Eve, Pasadena, Calif. Then, for four months, the film will be shown only on the gigantic screens in 75 IMAX theaters. (Our advice to moviegoers: sit in the back!) And to camouflage a high-art stigma, F2K employs genial onscreen hosts: Bette Midler, Quincy Jones, Penn & Teller and, best of all, Steve Martin in his suave-idiot mode, to introduce Itzhak Perlman, "who, I have just been informed, plays the violin...
Behind the door of suite 666 in the black-glass Towne East Tower in Mesquite, Texas, Miss Donna is treating me to a real drubbing. In reality, she's sitting at the next computer, every inch the quintessential Texas mother, all big hair and rouge. Onscreen, I never see her until it's too late. "I'm a-coming to get you!" whoops the fortysomething office manager and designated mom-in-residence to id software's 13 staff members, as her footsteps grow louder. A burst of green plasma fire frags me, and I have to respawn. To frag...
...White's classic children's novel. He is, after all, a wee mouse. But sooner or later, in both cases, disbelief is suspended, and we take the brave, chipper and very decent rodent (voiced by Michael J. Fox) to heart. Though Stuart's adventures seem more breathless onscreen than they did on the page, the blend of digital animation and live action is first rate. Eventually Stuart wins over even Snowbell, the Littles' cat (Nathan Lane). That scheming feline is a tougher audience than any Stuart is likely to encounter in theaters...
...Ronald Reagan, a frequent critic of Hollywood's insatiable libido. Said Reagan, "I have always thought it was more suggestive to see a hand reach out and hang a 'Do Not Disturb' sign on the door." The lesson: Merely suggesting sex is often more effective than showing it onscreen...