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...swings as "what appeared to be flexible silver stalactites" and says that "Cast members were poised...with fog machines." "Inexplicably," she writes, "actors chose to spin around the stage." Does she really think that the timing and movement of actors in a seventeen-minute play that coordinates lights, script video and sound is a choice or an accident...
...Cliffies) write offers to come over and read aloud of to us your illegible remarks--we can (officially) read anything and we may be married. Write on both sides of the page--single-bluebook finals looks like less work to grade, and win points. This chic, shaded calligraphic script so many are fond of affecting lately is handsome, and is probably worth a good five extra points if you can hack it. But above all, keep us entertained, keep us awake. Be bold, be personal, be witty, be chock full of facts. I'm sure...
WRITER PAT PROFT ASPIRES TO MAKE SIlent-movie comedy. The first moments of BRAIN DONORS tell you this, with half-a-dozen quick, sprightly sight gags. The rest of Proft's script says the same thing: the talking isn't nearly so funny. Or perhaps it's the delivery. Proft, a longtime toiler in the Zucker brothers' Airplane! factory (The Naked Gun, Hot Shots!), has updated A Night at the Opera, this time with the anarchic philistinism demolishing a ballet company. But director Dennis Dugan's zanies -- John Turturro, Bob Nelson, Mel Smith -- can't enunciate, and their playing...
...AMERICAN MASTERS series makes a case for respect this week with Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey, a lovely tribute to a Hollywood survivor. Salt had penned several successful films in the 1930s and '40s (The Shopworn Angel) when he was forced into exile by the blacklist. The script assignments eventually returned, but his talent didn't: his name first reappeared on dogs like Taras Bulba. But Salt made a comeback with his powerful screenplay for Midnight Cowboy, followed by Serpico and Coming Home. Nice work, nice...
Occasionally, however, Williams carries these devices a little far, making Macbeth too much fun for its own good. (The conversion of the witches' cauldron to an electric blender is one of these times.) The comic direction of some of the more intense moments of the script--like when Banquo's assassins bumble around like idiots and foul up their assassination attempt in the spirit of Inspector Cluseau--all lessens their ultimate impact...