Word: scripting
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Joseph Kesselring's Arsenic and Old Lace is an American classic, an off-beat comedy set in an old-fashioned and "peaceful" house in Brooklyn. This apparently traditional family gradually reveals its many layers of insanity with increasing surprise and suspense. This production coordinates the script's confusion, simultaneous dialogues and misunderstandings with admirable dexterity, and keeps the audience on edge for the whole two hours and 15 minutes...
East may strike some as too bleak and profane. The play does not provide much hope that its characters will ever escape poverty, at least not without opening the brothel they plan to open at the end. Many of the men's exchanges are sexist and/or homoerotic. But the script does let its females respond and make counter-attacks of their...
...takes the work seriously, but not himself. During the Unforgiven shoot, he regaled the crew with his wicked John Wayne impersonation. When Gene Hackman kicked the hell out of him in their first saloon encounter, the script called for Hackman to stride over to the bar and pour a drink. From his position on the floor, where he was miming grievous hurt, Eastwood didn't call cut. Instead he groaned, "Pour one of those...
...acting talent and terrific style. She's funny and fun to be with -- always. American actors mercilessly dissect everything. They worry and wonder about it all the time. The British tend to act instinctually." As Christopher Reeve, who also appears in Remains of the Day, notes, "She reads the script, gets it under her skin and leaves herself alone. She doesn't make Great Moments; she stays light on her feet, and the emotions flow because she's not trying too hard...
...direction by Marshall Herskovitz, one of the creators of television's thirtysomething, is at least true to the spirit of the script -- at once ponderous and digressive -- but without a clear, clarifying attitude toward it. DeVito's performance is characteristically strenuous, but he is lost -- who wouldn't be? -- among the story's conflicting moods and emotional claims. They should have called it Jack the Unbearable...