Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...months before.) When curious farmworkers gathered around and learned that a movie about Mandela was being shot, they waved their arms and shouted, "Man-de-la! Man-de-la!" Recalls Woodard: "Zimbabwe is newly free and glistening with hope. Having South African refugees all around us gave the script new urgency...
Grey and Swayze are an attractive couple, and there is a good rush to Director Emile Ardolino's staging of the dance sequences. If the ending of Eleanor Bergstein's script is too neat and inspirational, the rough energy of the film's song and dance does carry one along, past the whispered doubts of better judgment...
Henry Grunwald's career reads like the script of a Frank Capra movie. At 15, he fled his native Vienna after the Anschluss swept Austria into Hitler's Reich. He honed his English in movie theaters while attending New York University and started at TIME as a copyboy. Now at retirement age, he is stepping down as editor-in-chief of Time Inc., only the third person in 64 years to hold this position...
...biggest since The Jerk. It is based on an honorable property, Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac. It dares to plump for the supremacy of two old-fashioned notions: romantic love as the meeting of true minds and the English language as a tool for wooing and wonder. The script challenges its star to be at once noble and fatuous, strong and swooning, utterly in control and desperately in love -- all of which Martin handles as gracefully as if he'd written it himself (which he did). And in case you forgot, the last film fellow to play Cyrano, Jose...
...duty of the independent counsel to prosecute," Walsh told the American Bar Association last week. "High office, well- intended policies or popular policies do not place anyone above the law." But the impression left by that 40-minute session in the White House was that Iranscam is a script that may never have a climax. Reagan is free because he did not know. "I knew I'd told the truth," he says, "and that the truth would have to come out, and did." It is hard for Washington, so conditioned by guile and intrigue, to accept that. Yet Reagan...