Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Muskie, Shlesinger and Pipes were joined by seven others for the excercise, and worked through the crisis without a script. "To the participants this experience was more than a game--it had the feel of a real crisis," Muskie states in the guide...
...action has already begun as the audience files in: on a bare stage, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are flipping coins to pass the time. Stoppard has removed them from Hamlet and left them in limbo, without a script or even stage directions. They can't even keep their names straight. Adding to their general disorientation, the coins keep turning up heads, 92 times...
...When this set of plays appeared in Dublin, the Irish, who always celebrate really good sacrilege with a riot, responded with a universal yawn. Some Boston Catholics are more uptight about Durang, and they make the controversy that sells the tickets. But controversy can't hold up a chaotic script whose absurdity is less than comic...
Contrary to some isolated pockets of popular belief, this man is far from stupid. When presented with Cameron's script he said, in a machine gun burst of inspiration, "Vy don't I play...
...even harder line with the young people who want them to act their age than the retirees in last year's film did. Mostly, though, Tough Guys is a lot of fun, particularly when Eli Wallach, as a furious, nearsighted hit man, is on the scene. Maybe the script by James Orr and Jim Cruickshank is a little flabby around the middle, and maybe Jeff Kanew's direction is a little wobbly on its pins toward the end, but those are forgivable, perhaps inevitable, flaws in a film about old folks...