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...Aaron Spelling were a barber, young RANDY SPELLING would be sweeping hair by now. As it is, the 17-year-old found a Beverly Hills, 90210 script he liked, asked his producer dad who the casting director was and somehow got the part. "The nepotism talk is going to be around," admits Randy, who adds that non-Spellings on the show liked his performance too. "They said they might bring my character back." Any chance of a romance with Donna, played by sister Tori? "I hope...
...updating the script, Barbara Benedek and David Rayfiel have too often substituted topical one-liners (some of them quite funny) for well-joined badinage. This has a distancing effect. Even worse, someone made a disastrous decision to lengthen the early sequence in which Sabrina finds herself in Paris. Wilder got through her maturation at montage speed; Pollack lingers over it for 20 inconsequential minutes, a bring-down from which the movie never quite recovers...
Stone typically bites and claws at his subjects, then spits out phantasmagoric movie melodrama--terrific stuff like Platoon and JFK. This time he's almost mellow. The script, which he wrote with Stephen J. Rivele and Christopher Wilkinson, argues that Nixon had a dark role in anti-Castro mischief; the Cuba connection keeps echoing. The movie also nails him for the Cambodian bombing that set in motion the destruction of a beautiful country. Oddly, Stone doesn't find Nixon guilty of starting the Vietnam War or killing John Kennedy. He does pock the film with right-wing poobahs who anticipate...
...acting suffers because of the lack of dimensionality in the script. How can Stone show any acting skill, when she has to be "the angry boss" from start to finish? The other characters often fall into the same trap. Krim and Lewis are good actors with a bad script. So, their caricatures become borderline annoying, as they do not progress during the course of the play. The audience knows that Rolf, the blond, is dumb after five minutes of the play, but then must listen to every dumb line she submits. Hahs slips on a couple of her lines, which...
...first, the play seems interesting enough: The Venice scenes occur on a long, narrow stage, and the scenes in Cyprus take place in the center of a circular audience. In the first scene, which does not appear in the script, three men holding lanterns look at Desdemona (Christina Voros) while she sleeps. The drumbeats that open the play lend a nice, cinematic sound...