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...from simply transcribing Sandy Wilson's 1954 Broadway pastiche of 1920s musicals, Russell's screenplay frames it within several other stories. The main one deals with a seedy repertory troupe that is performing The Boy Friend somewhere in the English provinces. This device enables Russell not only to show the troupe onstage doing scenes from the show but at the same time affectionately to mock the whole genre of backstage musicals...
...subject is romantic and redblooded, I believe in handling it in a romantic, red blooded way. But working on The Boy Friend was more traumatic. No one knows how to make those musicals now, and the resources are inadequate." Russell himself not only wrote the treatment and screenplay for The Boy Friend and negotiated the $2.4 million financing, but also knew every bar of the music, checked every detail of props, makeup, costumes, even hair styles. He escorted Twiggy to her hairdresser to check her haircut for The Boy Friend, later embarked on a feud with her and her bearded...
...making of Sunday Bloody Sunday demanded 3 and one half years of preparation. "After mooching around for months, lost really for a place to work," Gilliatt completed the screenplay in about ten days in 1967. She recalls the pressure of writing it as enough to make her feel "about ready to flip." She describes her writing, whether of stories or scripts, as being drawn underwater on a steel hawzer, directed not by particular words, but by the force of the whole narrative line. In the black notebooks she constantly carries, which are filled with pages of reworked text, and dialogue...
Missing Vigor. Readers of the Ken Kesey novel from which John Gay's diffuse screenplay is derived will miss Kesey's vigor and his bigger-than-life characterizations. The book roared, the film sputters. But the actors do it more than justice. Sarrazin, whose past performances have been consistent only in their boredom, is at ease and quite effective as a maverick Stamper home from the big city. Jaeckel is perfect as an inveterate joker who takes only his fundamentalist religion seriously, and Newman is better than he has been in years as the favorite son who idolizes...
...Where, they sold 25,000 copies. A second album followed, which doubled those sales. A third, just out, is selling even faster. Dory has written a musical about her life, which she hopes to see produced on Broadway. She has also turned the same material into a screenplay, which is now being shown to producers...