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...some barely a minute long. Many involve set and costume changes, and as a result the audience is left facing an empty stage entirely too often. The many jumpy scene changes accentuate the fact that the play is too long and too fragmented. This shortcoming is inherent in the script, but a more technologically sophisticated production might have made the scene changes more quick and less obtrusive...
Soong and Lee give good performances, but they can't rescue this play from its own sluggishness. Hopefully, Lee, a talented first-year student, will have a better script to work with in his next Harvard production. "Yankee Dawg You Die" explores an important and interesting subject; however, it often feels more like a lecture than entertainment. It is entertaining as far as lectures go, but you will certainly find yourself checking your watch...
...story that caught Brown's attention was "Womyn," which Cohen faxed to MTV from his grandmother's house in Jerusalem and was his first script to be aired...
Finally, there is Robert Kelly, who plays Victor, the writer caught between the two women. Of course, true to our preconceptions of amoral Hollywood, the actresses are trying their best to use their feminine wiles to make him rewrite the script, so that one or the other will be the main star. Meanwhile, he has to defend the artistic integrity of his screenplay, as the producer is demanding drastic scene cuts...
Very loosely based on the rise of news reader Jessica Savitch, the script by Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne sends Sally Atwater (Pfeiffer)--all elbows and naked ambition--into a Miami TV newsroom presided over by Warren Justice (Redford), who ankled the network scene because he was too darned independent. Sally, later called Tally, is raw but cunning and learns quickly; best of all, in the tyranny of telegenics, "she eats the lens." Soon she has the coolest gig in journalism: asking hard questions of politicians by day, having Robert Redford massage her feet at night...