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...first woman director to have a flourishing Hollywood career (Big, A League of Their Own) since Dorothy Arzner in the '30s, is joined by Amy Heckerling (Clueless), Gillian Armstrong (Little Women) and a dozen or so more. Trailblazing mogul-mama Sherry Lansing at Paramount has welcome competition in Laura Ziskin at Fox 2000 and Stacey Snider, Lucy Fisher and Lisa Henson at Sony. For once not all executive decisions can be made in the men's room. "Today, when green-lighting movie lists," says exec producer Lindsay Doran (The Firm and the forthcoming Sabrina), "maybe five men and five women...
They have apparently found it. The reason NBC embraced The Other Side, says executive producer Ron Ziskin, "is the research indicating that people are interested in it and believe it." A Roper poll taken last year indicates that nearly a quarter of Americans believe in extraterrestrial UFOS and astrology, and nearly a third put stock in faith healing. Most startling, another poll found that as many as 2% of Americans, or nearly 5 million people, claim to have been abducted and taken aboard spacecraft by aliens...
...spot or follow the basic blockings that every amateur knows. Howard Bay's set and lighting, on the other hand, are of the highest quality. Ann Roth's costumes are adequate when gaudiness is called for, less than that when everyday dress is worn. The incidental music, by Victor Ziskin '59, is incidental...
...that the nature of Arthur Kopit's dramas makes a special provision for more music than the average play allows; i.e., more than a few atmospheric preludes. Well, there is more music than that, but anyone who expects a quasi-operatic commentary on the action will be disappointed. Victor Ziskin and Thomas Beveridge (particularly Mr. Beveridge) have worked rather in the manner of the film composer: a few bars to concentrate the atmosphere during a silence, music for the dances and circus performances Mr. Kopit has thoughtfully provided; low-volume impressionistic reveries while somebody on the stage soliloquizes...
Music formed a greater part of the fabric of Aubade, a play which might conceivably have been composed as an oversize operatic scena. Mr. Ziskin wrote two longish preludes, a good-sized postlude, and supported the heroine enthusiastically during her moments of crisis. The style ranged from jagged dissonance (which was not too successful) to rapid-fire splashes of delicious French harmony, which Mr. Ziskin handles with great verve...