Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...answer, of course, is a little of both. The virtue and the defect of this essentially good-natured movie is that its script, by Joel Schumacher and Carl Kurlander, does not play a steady light on any of its several stories, but bounces erratically from one to another like -- well, like St. Elmo's fire. The shifting prevents the movie from getting bogged in the banal, but it also prevents it from achieving much emotional resonance...
When Eastwood, who also directed the picture (from a Michael Butler-Dennis Shryack script), faces off against Russell's Maleficent Seven, viewers may get an old-fashioned western tingle. But Pale Rider does nothing to disprove the wisdom that this genre is best left to the revival houses. A double feature of Shane and Eastwood's High Plains Drifter will do just fine, thanks...
After working on the script with James Cameron, who co-wrote and directed The Terminator, Stallone prepared for the shooting in Mexico with a five-hour-a- day regimen of physical exercise, twice as hard as he works out for a typical Rocky film. In addition to rowing, weight lifting and jogging, Stallone took archery lessons at home in Pacific Palisades, Calif., and worked out with the Los Angeles police SWAT team...
...silence not only to announce that he had "no doubt" that the Embu bones were the remains of his father but to turn over to a West German magazine photographs, letters and documents purportedly relevant to the Mengele story. Late last week, moreover, U.S. handwriting analysts confirmed that the script on documents found in Brazil corresponded with that on other Mengele papers...
...been greeted with skepticism. For years, Mengele had displayed an uncanny adeptness for eluding his pursuers. Suddenly, not long after the search intensified once again earlier this year, the body was found and tidy explanations appeared. "The whole matter looks like a play with a perfect script," said Simon Wiesenthal, who has tracked down more than 1,100 Nazis in a 38-year campaign. "Mengele lives and breathes," said Menachem Rusek, director of Israel's police unit investigating Nazi crimes, before flying to Sao Paulo last week. "He and his relatives have already managed to play every sophisticated trick...