Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Aaron Spelling were a barber, young RANDY SPELLING would be sweeping hair by now. As it is, the 17-year-old found a Beverly Hills, 90210 script he liked, asked his producer dad who the casting director was and somehow got the part. "The nepotism talk is going to be around," admits Randy, who adds that non-Spellings on the show liked his performance too. "They said they might bring my character back." Any chance of a romance with Donna, played by sister Tori? "I hope...
Unfortunately, any audience member could have guessed the plot from looking at the program. In fact, the play lacks such originality and virtually all other plot twists may be determined from the program alone. This formulaic approach transcends all aspects of the script, humor to plot advancement, and ultimately fails...
...acting suffers because of the lack of dimensionality in the script. How can Stone show any acting skill, when she has to be "the angry boss" from start to finish? The other characters often fall into the same trap. Krim and Lewis are good actors with a bad script. So, their caricatures become borderline annoying, as they do not progress during the course of the play. The audience knows that Rolf, the blond, is dumb after five minutes of the play, but then must listen to every dumb line she submits. Hahs slips on a couple of her lines, which...
...first, the play seems interesting enough: The Venice scenes occur on a long, narrow stage, and the scenes in Cyprus take place in the center of a circular audience. In the first scene, which does not appear in the script, three men holding lanterns look at Desdemona (Christina Voros) while she sleeps. The drumbeats that open the play lend a nice, cinematic sound...
...Benjamin '99, who will be writing scenes of the script with a small group of first-years, said he thinks the idea is fantastic. "Shakespeare is something a lot of Harvard students can relate to and have had exposure to, so literary allusions will be familiar to most of the audience," he said...