Word: scripted
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...event. It could become a historic event. That depends upon what follows." Then he settled down with Britain's Lord Home and Russia's Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko for a series of conferences to see where, after the opening sequence of the test ban, the new Moscow script might lead...
Rage & Reason. The children make pathetic mistakes. "Whose name begins with L?" a teacher asks in kindly New Yorkese. "Mine," comes the answer in a soft Virginia drawl. The boy, aged nine, is named Earl. Yet by now the kids are scrawling their names in script, and one teacher has his charges deep in simple "science experiments." The chief effect is a bright-eyed attentiveness worthy of West Point. "They've got the ability," says Teacher Lou Mercado. "All they need is the teaching. Motivation here is very high. We don't get the ordinary discipline problems...
...like Silliphant, have incorporated themselves in one way or another and all of them have incomes that are astronomical by comparison with the av erage established TV writer's take of about $20,000 a year. Silliphant will not even consider writing an hour-long script for less than $10,000 (although he magnanimously charges his own com pany only $5,000 per script). But the real money comes from residuals and royalties and from owning a piece of the show. "The rich writers today are the proprietors," says Producer Irving Elman. "A Stirling Silliphant really...
...Link is a bitter, anguished inspection of what Strindberg believed to be the inevitable sordidness of a basic human institution--marriage. Written when the playwright was experiencing perhaps the climax of the unhappiness and torment that plagued his life, the script at times writhes in agonized protest of both human and natural restrictions and institutions...
...trouble is that many of the supporting roles are extremely important; their weakness in the Experimental's production stifled the power of Strindberg's script and often led to tedium. Particularly at fault was Skip Ascheim, whose colorless voice and wooden actions turned the judge into a most uninteresting person. His protestations of the difficulty of judicial decision were quite unconvincing...