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Ryder, in turn, is lucky with both script and direction. The former is by Helen Childress, 23, who not only has a good ear for the sound of her contemporaries but also knows how to shape it into dialogue that is pointed and full of unforced observations. Director Ben Stiller keeps things crisp, no small matter in a movie that features a fair amount of aimless activity and just plain lying around. The latter takes place in the "maxipad" Lelaina shares with Vickie (Janeane Garofalo), who sometimes imagines her own funeral as a scene from Melrose Place ("chokers and halter...
...Office for the Arts and the Undergraduate Council. Whether or not AFARM is highly politicized is irrelevant; both the Perspective and the Salient, two political publications, received Council funding as fledgling organizations. Also, Lat's question, "Should a group whose idea of 'art' is a really bad play script about gay rights receive money from the Office for the Arts?" is strange. I assume he is referring to AFARM's piece in HQ, "Sugar Daddy Memoirs From the Association for the Absence of Rabid Moralism " (HQ, Dec., 1993). While it is sophisticated and difficult, I would hardly...
...streets, and when she enters a bar, a computerized sensor announces, "Weapons clear." Despite a few lapses in logic -- even for a man whose appeals are exhausted, how can an execution be scheduled this precisely? -- the film, directed by Tommy Lee Wallace (Stephen King's "It") from a script by Thomas Baum (The Manhattan Project), unfolds with caustic plausibility, from the outbreak of T-shirt merchandisers to the anti-capital-punishment protesters who picket the event...
Final page from a script for an upcoming Fox TV movie based on the cases of Lyle and Erik Menendez, whose recent murder trials ended with hung juries (screenwriters can't foresee everything...
...have several questions: Should a group whose idea of "art" is a really bad play script about gay rights receive money from the Office of the Arts...