Word: manuscript
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...anyway, working with the other actors." Richard Lester, who directed Scott in Petulia, found him "intelligent, constructive, decent, professional. If there was a difference of opinion between us, we worked it out in five or ten minutes." Enormously sure of his own instinct for material, Scott was handed the manuscript of Plaza Suite in a restaurant by Playwright Neil Simon; he left to read it and returned little more than an hour later to say he would act in it. During the filming of Scott's TV series, East Side/West Side, Jim Aubrey, then president of CBS-TV, summoned Scott...
Laura Ingalls Wilder died in 1957 at age 90. But she left behind the manuscript of yet another Little House book, or at least the extended draft for one. Written out like the others in longhand in orange-covered school notebooks, it was found among her papers. It tells what happened to Laura and Almanzo during their first four years of married life. To Wilder fans, its publication can be considered as an unexpected gift from the past...
Died. Richard Prentice Ettinger, 77 co-founder of Prentice-Hall, Inc., who parlayed a manuscript and a promise of credit into a publishing empire worth more than $120 million in yearly sales; of heart disease; in Miami Beach. Ettinger began as a $4-a-week law clerk for Charles W. Gerstenberg, who in 1913 wrote a book on corporate finance. The two formed Prentice-Hall, Inc., talked a printer into publishing the book on credit, and thereafter concentrated on business and educational material. Once they found themselves stuck with thousands of copies of a volume on federal taxes; changes...
...chilly, prim and pallid. The inner life is extremely important to Hedda, for otherwise what is left is the story of a kind of grown-up "bad seed," a woman who out of casual malice or native bitchiness burns her would-be lover's brilliant manuscript, pushes him back to drink and gives him a pistol with instructions to shoot himself...
...rest of the cast, only Donald Madden as Eilert Lovborg, Hedda's prime target (apart from herself), achieves true Ibsenite intensity and anguish. In a profoundly moving scene he tells of losing his manuscript in the way that a carousing father might lose all track of a child and who, coming home, says to the mother, "I lost the child-completely lost him. God knows who's got hold of him." After giving an animal cry, Madden opens his mouth again in a terrible soundless scream and sags lifelessly, like a crucified soul. That is an epiphany...