In writing, and starring in, his first play he has stuck closely to the format of the TV series: short scenes, smart lines, characters trying to make sense of their relationships.
One of 1Xtra's smart moves was recruiting talent from within the scenes they now represent.
And I hope I captured some of the magic of the downtown scene — incredibly smart, ambitious people trying their hardest to survive and make things work.
For more than a decade Mr. Petzold has been making his mark on the international cinema scene with smart, tense films that resemble psychological thrillers, but are distinguished by their strange story turns, moral thorns, visual beauty and filmmaking intelligence.
Tyrion seemed to be one of the few characters she actually liked, perhaps because I had introduced him in an earlier scene as "smart" and "decent".
Someone behind the scenes is smart: he or she has successfully created an atmosphere of fantasy and vacation.
The film is full of scenes of smart people sizing up one another and verbal exchanges that suggest chess games more than conversations.
They executed it with a bunch of ex-CNN talent including both on-air professionals and behind the scenes programming smarts.
The saxophonist and composer Andrew Rathbun is using some of the better musicians in the New York scene for his smart, harmony-rich big-band music; he is also working with literary texts.
Valli (an odd name for someone whose voice was all peaks) was born Castelluccio: a smart scene shows him informing his future wife he's decided to change to 'Vally' and her barking that it had better be 'Valli' - because 'y is a bullshit letter'.
