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...this year. Producers of the shows and network officials insist that these trips were not related to the merger or to one another, pointing out that such on-location episodes usually do well in the ratings. Of course, they're not bad for company image either (Disney World has script approval of all programs shot there; among the verboten scenes are any that reveal human beings inside those Mickey and Goofy costumes...
...merely a scholar's overhyped thesis, unsupported by solid evidence? These questions swirl about three tiny fragments of papyrus at Oxford University known collectively as the Magdalen Papyrus. Ragged-edged and dun-colored, they contain snippets of three passages from Chapter 26 of St. Matthew's Gospel in Greek script. For more than 90 years, the papyrus scraps had been housed at the library of Magdalen College, the gift of an obscure British chaplain who bought them at an antiquities market in Luxor, Egypt...
There is delicacy and restraint in all these performances as they ease a far-fetched premise toward believability under Richard Pearce's clear, cool direction. The script by Billy Bob Thornton and Tom Epperson is obviously a fairy-tale, but the unsentimental realism of its telling, combined with our profound need to believe in it just now, turns A Family Thing into a curiously affecting little movie...
...choice of locations enhances his sense of visual style. The neon-lit lobby corridor, the elevator filled with bright red lights and the rows of seats in primary colors along a downtown New York City sidewalk all complement the fast-paced script. A newspaper shop provides a wonderful locale for Lee to pit Girl 6 against a lecherous store owner...
...wouldn't want to make a movie with so much autobiographical material again," he confesses. "I'm taking the most embarrassing aspects of myself and inflating them for the world to see." But agonizing over every decision is Russell's modus operandus. After rewriting the script 15 times, he had the actors rehearse for weeks in his home--then fretted about a star like Moore using his bathroom. After Spanking, he wanted to make a funny movie. When Flirting was in the can, "I wondered why I hadn't made Leaving Las Vegas." He must have driven his parents nuts...