Ms. Atkins, whose greatest gift to humanity may well have been her co-creation, with Jean Marsh, of the British television series "Upstairs, Downstairs," has been criticized for not having exactly written a play in "Vita and Virginia".
Indie veteran Kelly Reichardt finely adapts three elegant, exactly written short stories by Maile Meloy for an evocative, modulated film starring Laura Dern, Kristen Stewart and Michelle Williams that deals with the human need for connection amid the persistence of loneliness.
"I feel like it's more important that I have a practical use". It was an oddly self-flagellating statement – her work was never breezy, and she's not exactly writing slogans for protest placards now.
That is a shame, because the act was written for exactly the kind of people America should be embracing: young soldiers, scholars, strivers, future leaders.
Snipes is too cocky in it.' But this was exactly the same character I had written for Cage.
Pharrell was fun too, reminding everyone of exactly how many hits he has written for other people, before pulling loads of children onstage to dance with him for Happy.
"Their parents think they're thinking about cigarettes and sex, exactly the things writing for the Disney Channel you could not address," Ms. Minsky said.
And I would say to them "well how exactly do you write for a black actor?" I have played many roles which weren't traditionally played by black actors - I have been cast as Caliban twice.
Mozart's famous clarinet pieces, for example, cannot be played exactly as written, because for him the instrument was less a single, identifiable device than a series of experiments in size and range.
I remember listening to Sue Lawley on Desert Island Discs testily demanding to know exactly who he was writing for.
