Word: script
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Lerner has but three hours. In Camelot, Lerner moves from comedy to tragedy as if he were blowing out a candle. Another problem is that Lerner seems to stop shy of the most tragic moments not only Arthur's death but Guinevere's trial and rescue, which, in the script as it stood last week, was only related in an awkward "standup oratorio." Perhaps L. & L.'s biggest problem is to find a way of telling this climactic scene visually or dramatically...
Surprise Package (Columbia) is stuffed with expensive ingredients: Yul Brynner MItzi Gaynor, Noel Coward in front of the camera Director Stanley (Seven Brides for Seven Brothers) Donen behind it plus a script by Harry (Reclining Figure} Kurnitz based on a novel (A Gift from the Boys} by Columnist Art Buchwald. But as far as entertainment is concerned, Package contains only what is known in show business as a bomb Director Donen clearly intended to tell a shaggy-dog story the way John Huston did in his hilarious Beat the Devil but unfortunately, Donen's dog turns...
...most richly gifted playwriting talent to pass through Harvard since Barry in the early 'twenties. Well directed by Michael B. Ritchie '60, with fine acting by Jacqueline French (when she could be heard) and F. Rollins Maxwell '62, the production drew packed from near and far; the script has ready been published, and the will receive a professional production later this season...
...Happened in Broad Daylight (Praesens-Film; Continental) is a cinema curiosity: a film that was later made into a novel. The script is the work of Switzerland's Friedrich Duerrenmatt, whose sinister morality plays (The Visit, Fools Are Passing Through) have been fascinating U.S. theater audiences in recent years. After writing the picture, Author Duerrenmatt rewrote it as a novel, published in the U.S. as The Pledge (TIME, March 30, 1959). Inevitably, people will say they liked the book better. It was a thoughtful study of the police mind and the one thing that destroys it: human feeling...
Most TV drama is atrociously written, but considering the obstacles, it is remarkable that any of it gets written at all. Testifying before the FCC last week, the elders of the advertising profession reported on the infinitely detailed sponsors' commandments that govern TV's script carpenters. Samples...