Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hsieh said the AAA intends to inform people going to the show that it "actively resists this sort of racial stereotyping." He added that the goal of the demonstrations is to have the character removed from the script...
...sick Lucy (who in this production cries "Hooray for Barry Manilow" just to get a rise out of the budding pianist); of Snoopy's unending battle with the Red Baron. The small circle of friends grows up in these amusing vignettes, while an occasional moral dots the otherwise harmless script. There's not an undergraduate who in his youth didn't toss a few "good griefs" into the wind at a younger sibling...
Andrew W. Sellon '81, the show's script writer, said yesterday that he "had not expected," any problems with the character, adding that the part "was making fun of the stereotype at the expense of the people who make stereotypes...
...Buddy Holly Story and The Rose in the show-biz-saga sweepstakes. Care and intelligence are everywhere in evidence. British Director Michael Apted (Agatha) captures both the poverty and pride of the young Loretta's Appalachian homestead without resorting to Hollywood sentimentality or glamorization. Tom Rickman's script uses intimate, telling details as it enthusiastically describes the heroine's gradual transformation from 13-year-old hillbilly bride to Nashville superstar. The cast, especially Sissy Spacek as Lynn -the best role of her career -is always winning...
This is another of those French movies whose true subject-no matter what the script says-is eating and drinking. About the only business the actors do while exchanging dialogue is prepare food or consume it. At least everything looks delicious. Yet maybe the reason is that one's mind tends to wander from more important matters, which are related in a style that is both distant and flat...