But for all the skill, it's mainly an evening of academic interest: it's extraordinary to see the most humanist of directors commanding a tinkling, anxiety-causing, mechanistic drama.
For the rest of us, it was like the scene in The Truman Show when the mad director commands daybreak, and an assistant flicks a switch.
It is now common for experienced housing managers to earn a minimum £40,000, and it is not unusual for top chief executives or directors to command salaries of up to £100,000.
According to an annual Gallup Poll on professional honesty and ethics, funeral directors already command a certain esteem: 36percentt of Americans polled give them a "very high" or "high" rating.
Six-figure advances are relatively common, while intelligence officers of the first rank, such as former Directors, can command a lot more.
NASA officials recommended that Mr. O'Malley, who was still working for General Dynamics, be hired by North American as its new director of command module launch operations.
Over the years, the director's command of landscape and action developed, but, for drama, "The Furies," which fully lives up to its title, remains unrivalled.
But all the dreamy atmospheric tricks at a director's command can't conceal the harsh truth that the play's second act (and a lot of its third) is second-drawer Williams, stirred into an overheated potboiler.
Carney confirms the decision by the White House not to break the NSA director-Cyber Command job into two, with civilian leadership of the NSA: I know that it was considered... and the decision was made that I think has been announced or revealed to maintain the unitary command... a military command.
The director's command of his medium is spellbinding, and Melissa Mathison's screenplay is nearly flawless: with minimal dialogue, the movie expresses a range of emotions that will be accessible to the youngest children and resonant to even the most jaded adults.
