Three screenplays set in Baltimore deal with five friends in the 50s, a rivalry between two aluminum siding salesmen, and an immigrant family adjusting to life in America.
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Travels in Baltimore with Barry Levinson,
By Paul Haspel (State College, PA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Avalon, Tin Men, Diner: Three Screenplays (Paperback)
Fans of Barry Levinson's Baltimore movies will enjoy this collection of the screenplays for Diner (1982), Tin Men (1987), and Avalon (1990). A helpful introduction by Jesse Kornbluth situates the three screenplays in their place and time, and discusses thematic ideas and concerns common to all three. The screenplays themselves demonstrate Levinson's skill as a writer and his sharp ear for dialogue. There are some interesting differences between the screenplays and the films as finally released; the Diner screenplay, for example, originally included a sequence in which a number of the "diner guys" attend the 1959 NFL championship game between the Baltimore Colts and the New York Giants at Baltimore's Memorial Stadium, but that sequence does not appear in the final film. The nature of print as a medium means that the printed screenplay cannot quite capture the rapid-fire, Howard Hawks-style delivery of these lines between and among the characters; one must watch the films themselves to enjoy the way characters cut off and interrupt each other, just the way people do in real life. It might also help, since Levinson wrote and directed a fourth Baltimore movie, Liberty Heights (1999), to issue a new edition of this book including the Liberty Heights screenplay. Still, the book works very well as it is, not just because Levinson captures so well the textures of life in Baltimore (though he does) but also because these are great stories of human character in the crucible of social change.
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FENWICK walks along the dimly lighted basement. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
family circle meeting, siding company, leaning into the microphone, tin men, wallpaper hangers, tobacco warehouse, tight shot, hot nuts, discount warehouse, popcorn box, camera pans, long beat Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Gibraltar Aluminum Siding Company, The Corral Club, Home Improvement Commission, July Fourth, Lexington Market, Pimlico Hotel, Social Security, Banquet-hall Wedding Room, Carol Heathrow, Jesus Christ, New York, Frock's Farm, Howdy Doody, Memorial Stadium, Moon Shaw, Saint Agnes's Church, The Strand Theater, Barry Levinson, Coffee Grinder, Druid Hill Reservoir, Little Joe, New Jersey, The Turf Club, Atlantic City, Captain Video New!
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FENWICK walks along the dimly lighted basement. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
family circle meeting, siding company, leaning into the microphone, tin men, wallpaper hangers, tobacco warehouse, tight shot, hot nuts, discount warehouse, popcorn box, camera pans, long beat Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Gibraltar Aluminum Siding Company, The Corral Club, Home Improvement Commission, July Fourth, Lexington Market, Pimlico Hotel, Social Security, Banquet-hall Wedding Room, Carol Heathrow, Jesus Christ, New York, Frock's Farm, Howdy Doody, Memorial Stadium, Moon Shaw, Saint Agnes's Church, The Strand Theater, Barry Levinson, Coffee Grinder, Druid Hill Reservoir, Little Joe, New Jersey, The Turf Club, Atlantic City, Captain Video New!
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