Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Lawrence, in close, impatient proximity to Robin Williams, playing a failed playwright-poet named Dale Putley. "You know from the outset that their quest will quickly become a shared one, that the hip careerist and the careerless former hippy will bicker and ultimately bond. You can?t say the script by Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel makes the most of this contrast -- too many side trips into bathroom humor -- but it does feed the stars enough decent patter to keep them ticking in their disparate ways." Reitman does provide two nice casting surprises: the formerly hot Nastassja Kinski...
...hand-written post-script, Myra A. Mayman, the director of the OFA, wrote, "The Council gave your application full and lengthy consideration but decided not to fund...
...premillennial Hollywood plague of natural-disaster movies. Last year Twister; this fall The Flood. In February, Dante's Peak sent small-town folk scurrying from their local Vesuvius; now Mick Jackson's Volcano has man tamper in God's domain--by daring to build a subway in L.A. The script, by Jerome Armstrong and Billy Ray, thus exploits two major fears of Angelenos: getting demolished by a horrid subterranean force, and having to take public transportation...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Gilbert & Sullivan Players productions may not be the most popular theater events of the school year, but The Sorcerer certainly deserves its moment in the spotlight. A talented cast, beautiful costumes, a great orchestra and a 100-year-old script that still gets laughs all combine to make a show truly worth anyone's time and money. Perhaps you will resist the charm and musical delight that this season's spellbinding Sorcerer delivers. If you do, fine. You won't be cursed with anything, except maybe regret. But that would be welldeserved...
While in Mexico, the film's American crew members were driven to and from their hotels, but local workers did not receive similar treatment. A Tijuana woman was severely injured in a crash after working until 3 a.m. as a script supervisor. And TIME has obtained a memo from construction coordinator Les Collins protesting to managers that local laborers, who were required to work 12-hour days, received only bread and milk during a morning break as their meal for the day. At one point, even that was cut back. "It is deplorable that we have witnessed our workers digging...