This story was originally published in the February 21st, 1991 issue of Rolling Stone.
Mr. and Mrs. Robin Williams are slow dancing. The time: a winter afternoon. The place: a photographer's studio in the Chelsea section of New York. The music: high-decibel funk. Everybody else in the studio is abuzz — adjusting lights, fussing with props, running back and forth from the kitchen with sushi. Still, Williams and his wife, Marsha, keep coming together in these quick, sweet tableaux. It's strange to see the thirty-nine-year-old actor and comedian with his guard down...
Mr. and Mrs. Robin Williams are slow dancing. The time: a winter afternoon. The place: a photographer's studio in the Chelsea section of New York. The music: high-decibel funk. Everybody else in the studio is abuzz — adjusting lights, fussing with props, running back and forth from the kitchen with sushi. Still, Williams and his wife, Marsha, keep coming together in these quick, sweet tableaux. It's strange to see the thirty-nine-year-old actor and comedian with his guard down...
- 8/12/2014
- Rollingstone.com
Say this for "The Event" on Monday (March 28): It looked lovely. The episode (called "Face Off") was directed by Oscar-winning cinematographer Janusz Kaminski, and as you might expect from a man who's worked with Steven Spielberg on a dozen movies, it had a more cinematic sweep than the show usually does.
But that's the Paula Abdul-on-"American Idol" way of backing into what I really thought of the episode, which is not much. It's getting pretty difficult to track where characters' motives lie week to week, and in a show that's otherwise built heavily on plot momentum, that's a big flaw. Consistent characterization is the way through a story where everything else is in service of what happens next, and that's not happening right now on "The Event."
We get, President Martinez, that you're tired of being a step behind Sophia and her cohorts, and we really get...
But that's the Paula Abdul-on-"American Idol" way of backing into what I really thought of the episode, which is not much. It's getting pretty difficult to track where characters' motives lie week to week, and in a show that's otherwise built heavily on plot momentum, that's a big flaw. Consistent characterization is the way through a story where everything else is in service of what happens next, and that's not happening right now on "The Event."
We get, President Martinez, that you're tired of being a step behind Sophia and her cohorts, and we really get...
- 3/29/2011
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
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