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Later in Harvey's record- and comic book-clogged apartment Joyce wearily decides that they should skip the courtship and just get married. ''Before we get started, you should know that I had a vasectomy,'' are Harvey's first words to her. Hope Davis plays Joyce Brabner, the comic book dealer and kindred besieged spirit from Delaware who identifies with the shaggily depressed outlook in Harvey's work and decides to take a chance and meet him in Cleveland. Pekar himself appears now and then in a film (nominated for best adapted screenplay) that occasionally injects characters from the comics into the live action. Coppola, best director and best original screenplay, it arrives with a minimum of extra features.
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For a movie with a best-picture Oscar on the line, as well as nominations for Bill Murray as best actor and two for Ms. Jackson amounting to an extras-packed extravaganza for most directors) in May or June and an extended version of the movie with a raft of other features in November.Īs with other Oscar movies the number of theaters showing ''Lost in Translation'' jumped last week, but that should gradually dwindle with the release of DVD and videocassette. ''Rings'' is likely to follow the same two-part release scheduling of the first two ''Rings'' films, which would mean a rather basic edition (''basic'' for Mr. Release dates for Peter Weir's ''Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World,'' Clint Eastwood's ''Mystic River'' and Peter Jackson's ''Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King'' are yet to be announced.
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Gary Ross's ''Seabiscuit'' has been available since December. If the spirit moves them, in fact, players from one team sometimes jump into the other team's scenes.Sofia Coppola's ''Lost in Translation,'' released today by Universal, is the second of this year's Academy Awards best-picture nominees to reach DVD. Now, even at international Theatresports tournaments, it's clear that the competition is more or less a ruse to get the audience pulling for the performers and uniting in good-natured loathing of the bewigged, black-robed judges. At first, he recalls, intercity rivalries could get quite heated. They're like whipped dogs by comparison, sitting on their hands, wondering if they should like what they're seeing."Īfter Theatresports proved to be a hit at the Loose Moose Theatre in Calgary, Johnstone says the idea sold itself in other Canadian cities. Somehow the regular theater audience has lost all that. "It was obvious that this was theater and not the real thing," he explains, "but the boisterous response of the audience was so striking.
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Johnstone says that the idea first hit him after he had attended several professional wrestling matches in London in the 1960s. In both of the leagues, the premise of competition is the not-so-secret ingredient that captures the audience. With nine shows a week in two different theaters, the thriving Vancouver Theatresports League does $500,000 (Canadian) worth of business a year. Theatresports, the original (started in the late '70s) form of competitive improv games, has branches in Denmark, Sweden, Australia, New Zealand, England, Canada and the U.S. The CLA is not, however, without competition. Further expansion is in the works, promises CLA commissioner Dick Chudnow, who claims that a million people have passed through a ComedySportz turnstile since 1984 when the first branch was opened. The audience-involving hook of team competition has yanked acting-school exercises out of the classroom and turned them into hybrid entertainment on AstroTurf-covered stages in Boston, Milwaukee, Washington, D.C., and 12 other Comedy League of America (CLA) cities. That effort was good enough for the three judges to award the Red Team five points and give the Reds a narrow lead over the opposing Blue Team. "There's almost no horticultural talent out there today," McCaw chattered into an imaginary microphone, at which point the trimmers turned on the announcer and began hacking away with their invisible blades.