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...airport, and campaign manager Scott Reed had to play catch-up. He reached Dole by telephone and relayed Gingrich's gripes. As usual, Dole would make the final call. As usual, there was no one on the plane with the stature to persuade him to stick to the script, or to suggest that maybe the needs of Gingrich and Barbour no longer match those of the nominee. And though he faced what should have been a simple choice between listening to his gut or listening to a Speaker with an approval rating in the low 30s, Dole did the latter...
...really believe that. In the words of that very smart screenwriter William Goldman, "Stars will not play weak, and they will not play blemished"--especially stars who are playing potential feminist paragons. Indeed, we're pretty sure Patrick Sheane Duncan's script will also find some circumstances to extenuate Serling's initial screw-up, since he's played by a star...
Such spoonfeeding is, unfortunately, the problem of some of the other characters in the work, though the script is somewhat to blame for this. Claire Bloom, for example, gives a seamless performance as Mary, nervous grasping hands, wild eyes, hysterical overennunciation and all. The problem with her portrayal of the Mary we all know and pity is just that--we all know her. While surely a weak Mary would foul the chemistry of any production of "Journey," in this case, a too-polished Mary merely fails to hold our attention the way she obviously holds the attention of the other...
Communicating in code--Clinton was called the Governor of California, Yeltsin the Governor of Texas--the Americans sought Morris' help. They had earlier worked together to script Clinton's summit meeting with Yeltsin in mid-April. The main goal then was to have Clinton swallow hard and say nothing as Yeltsin lectured him about Russia's great-power prerogatives. "The idea was to have Yeltsin stand up to the West, just like the Communists insisted they would do if Zyuganov won," says a Clinton Administration official. "By having Yeltsin posture during that summit without Clinton's getting bent...
Unfortunately for "Dollhouse", Solondz cannot achieve this same balance in his script. Towards the end of the movie, "Dollhouse" becomes weighted down by a heavyhanded serving of would-be farce. Missy is kidnapped and imprisoned under a shuffle-board court, Dawn runs away to Times Square to look at her, and the father is rushed to the hospital with the nervous breakdown. The strictly mundane world of "Dollhouse" cannot expand fast enough to support such broad, blowsy strokes...