Word: scripted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Honey, I Blew Up the Baby (Disney) Studio boss Jeffrey Katzenberg is eager to repeat the success of Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. In one of the script concepts being considered, a child is Xeroxed to huge size. But copies usually fade, and star Rick Moranis will demand a huge salary...
...find do-it-yourself videos more appealing than standard triple-X fare. For one thing, couples tend to emphasize story line as well as visuals. More important, notes psychologist Lonnie Barbach of San Francisco, "it's not just plumbing shots of anonymous people." One Minneapolis couple combined a sleazy script with agile camerawork. "I was a door-to-door salesman, and she was the housewife," says Michael, in reality a business manager. During the taping, the pair stopped the action to move the camera around the bed, adjust the zoom lens and do retakes. Despite such antics, the experience ultimately...
None of this might matter greatly if a war follows the quick-knockout script sketched by some Air Force enthusiasts. In the politics of war, as in other matters, nothing succeeds like success. Even then, however, the U.S. would need the support of its world coalition to shape a durable peace. And at home one need only mention the word Vietnam to underscore the importance of congressional and popular support. Unfortunately, the scenarios for fighting a war seem to have been far more carefully drawn and fully thought out than the scripts for justifying the decision...
Though the Mather House production often captures the sense of desperation and absurdity of Marriage, it suffers from a coarse treatment of a complex and rich script. It is this fault that renders an otherwise promising play merely mediocre...
Since the performance is based on an extremely patriarchal script by Peter Shaffer, casting decisions in the production are not surprising, just disappointing. The only female players to be found on the Mainstage are cast in the roles of sympathetic yet incomprehensible male Incas. It seems insensitive to make a conscious effort to cross-cast and yet cast women in only savage and subordinate roles...