Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...everyone regards the product as a jolly good show. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who has been portrayed chatting with Adolf Hitler on immigration policies, saw the satire once and decided that she had seen enough. Many critics have complained that the show's cynicism is too easy and its script sophomoric. Almost everyone, however, concedes that the japery is nonpartisan. The House of Commons actually has a videotape of the show delivered each week...
Even for an Administration accustomed to making its moves with television coverage firmly in mind, the timing of the 7 o'clock strike was extraordinary. Ronald Reagan could hardly have written a more gripping script to dramatize his determination to strike out militarily at terrorist regimes. By the time Reagan took to the airwaves to explain and justify the raids, they had already been discussed--and generally applauded--at dinner tables across the land...
...beats out 500 other girls for a coveted part in the upcoming Eddie Murphy comedy Golden Child. Then gossip columnists report that Charlotte Lewis, 18, once linked with Polanski, is now seeing Ballet Star Mikhail Baryshnikov, but the lady describes both men as "just good friends." Sorry, folks, a script it's not. She says that it is all true, and why not believe her? Lewis is delightfully candid and seemingly unaffected by her promising career. "I don't think I knew anything about the business," she says sweetly. "I still...
...Svetlana told the Washington Post last week that she returned to the Soviet Union primarily to see her two older children, Joseph and Yekaterina, who were 22 and 17 when she left them in 1966, and her two grandchildren. She claimed that the Soviets directed the script for her return press conference. Said she: "They made me write texts in Russia, which they all approved. I felt very awkward. I wanted to say simply, 'I came to join my children...
WHILE WE WAIT, discussions arise about the script, such as power triangles among various characters, the merits of it's structure. Kevin Walker, who plays Alonso, is concerned with the interpretation of one of his lines, and decides to discuss it later with Patrick. We also speculate on what kind of audience we can expect. Although The Tempest is a well-known and popular play, it will have a hard time matching the audience generated by the abundant publicity and pop appeal of its predecessor on the Mainstage, Wuthering Heights...