Word: screenplays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like Ben, Abram S. Ginnes' manic screenplay brims with hellishly good intentions that never quite come off. Jewison has thus been forced to pare his film drastically. Plot and continuity skip along in a flurry of quick cuts and undeveloped skits. Perhaps it is just as well. Hecht was invariably sodden with sentimentality except when he wrote with a collaborator-as in The Front Page. In editing Gaily, Gaily, Jewison has played a latter-day Charles MacArthur to Hecht's Hecht...
...appearance on the John Davidson Show, ended up doing six, with Davidson trying to sign her on as a regular. Last month she did a pilot for NBC; next month she will do a special starring Comic Dom Deluise. Even Gary Owens, the Laugh-In announcer, has written a screenplay, has a book coming out, and hosts the daytime spin-off show, Letters to Laugh...
...Like It Hot. This comedy which revolves around two third-rate musicians who become members of an all-girl band to escape some murderous Chicago gangsters, is in every way Wilder's masterpiece. The nastiness is gentle but omnipresent: the evocation of the twenties' setting is beautifully detailed; the screenplay by Wilder and long-time collaborator I.A.L. Diamond is relentlessly hilarious. In addition, the amazing performances of Monroe and Curtis show Wilder's often underrated ability with actors...
...that Alice Brock and her shortlived hash house have been immortalized in song and screenplay, she is making the most of it. She is franchising a coast-to-coast chain of Alice's Restaurants; the first four (in Boston, New York, Nashville and Los Angeles) are scheduled to open this year. Money is already pouring in from her Alice's Restaurant Cookbook (Random House; $5.95), which has a first printing of 40,000 copies...
...from the word go, Alice's Restaurant is Arthur Penn's movie, not Arlo's. (In addition to directing, Penn co-wrote the screenplay with Venable Herndon.) The director's control becomes clear very early in the picture, where he gives us the first of several scenes set in Arlo's father's hospital room...