Word: scripted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...also the principal trading and reserve currency for the rest of the world. What the U.S. does or does not do with the dollar affects every country on earth, and Washington's mismanagement of its money has lately begun to seem more and more like a script filled with dire trouble for everyone...
Like Nancy Dowd's script for Slap Shot, Casey's Shadow continually proves that men do not have a monopoly on first-rate sports reportage. Writer Carol Sobieski, working loosely from a story by John McPhee, takes a cynical attitude toward her characters' obsession with winning, and she leavens her familiar narrative with gritty bits of lore from the backwaters of quarter-horse racing. She accurately re-creates the arduous rituals of training, the sweaty romance of jockeying and the cracker-barrel humor of the eccentrics who build their entire lives around long shots...
...ardent acolyte and student in Bruhl's writing seminar has just sent him a murder mystery that makes Bruhl greedy with envy. To the young man, Clifford Anderson (Victor Garber), Bruhl proffers collaboration, an older man's sophisticated nurture of a sapling script. Refused. To his staunchly supportive wife Myra (Marian Seldes), Bruhl speculates about taking Anderson's life, swiping the sole copy of the manuscript and presenting...
...highmindedness. The actors cannot be blamed; they struggle hard, and with occasional success, to humanize a story that is schematically structured like a case history. Ralph Nelson's direction does not help; it is routine, though it is hard to know what could be done with a script that keeps freezing up in order to deliver tiresome sociological sermons...
...something funny. But when the delivery is sharp, you feel yourself beginning to laugh even before the line is finished. That never happens in the Leverett production. Although director Tim Garry has paced the show far too fast--with the exception of the physical business called for in the script, where things grind to a dead halt--he has not given the actors any clues about proper emphasis. The wistful and the exuberant sound alike, and the unvarying rhythm grows monotonous...