Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...THREE-fourths), says the eager second-grader as he holds up a card with the fraction spelled out in Japanese hiragana script and numerals. Then a classmate selects a segmented triangle that illustrates the fraction. "Atte imasuka?" (Is that correct?) asks the teacher from Tokyo. "Hai," says the class in unison as little hands go up to answer the next question...
...doesn't even release a title or script to producers before or during filming. And the actors in his films don't get the full script; they only receive the lines for the character they portray...
...movie business, perception is reality because "all rumors are true." An executive will go to A.A. meetings not because he is an alcoholic but because "that's where all the deals are being made." Michael Tolkin's script abounds in such cynical wisdom, but it never loses an appreciation for the grace with which these snakes consume their victims. Robert Altman, whom Hollywood has both favored (in his M*A*S*H days) and dismissed (over the past decade), directs the bright carnage with an assurance that only a hard-hided survivor can provide. He is like St. Sebastian, plucking...
...Leverett House Arts Society production of Amadeus (directed by Grace Fan) effectively exploits this difficult but potent script, and presents an earnest reading of Shaffer's Salieri. Arthur Wu dominates the production with his impressive control of both voice and gesture, and makes the psychological portrait of Salieri's anguish convincing. Jessie Cohen plays an irrepressible and eminently likable Mozart, and the casting of a woman in the role of the composer-child emphasizes the youthful and effeminate side of the composer's character as Shaffer interprets...
Director Gina Fried-Miller has dealt well with a demanding play whose greatest weakness is the script itself, which, despite being humorous, falls short of expectations at crucial junctures. Nevertheless, she has done well in producing an entertaining and successful mixture of magnificent acting and singing in the gorgeous Agassiz Theater...