Word: scripter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wald does it rankles his detractors, who cultivate the legend that he is one of the Hollywood comers who sat for the composite portrait of the fast-rising heel in Budd Schulberg's novel, What Makes Sammy Run?. Like Sammy, he broke into the movies as a hack scripter. Like Sammy, Jerry has stoked his career with a singleminded ambition, a glib tongue, monumental speed and endurance, a flair for opportunism and an enormous talent for picking other men's brains and putting the pickings to work. Whether a credit to Wald or a reflection on Hollywood, these...
...heroine. Considerably less bemused at Portia's unflagging nobility is her creator; in fact, tall, tense Mona Kent, writer of Portia Faces Life, is betraying her stainless heroine for the first time. In a novel to be published next week (Mirror, Mirror on the Wall; Rinehart; $3), Scripter Kent tells the story of "a girl who wrote soap operas and tried to live her life according to the sacrificial formula of her heroine." The end result: "She destroyed the lives of her husband, lover...
Last week Iowa-born Scripter-Novelist Kent explained to the New York Herald Tribune what makes Portia and other sudsy heroines click: "Every soap-opera heroine ... is, by definition, a much stronger person than her husband or any man in her orbit . . . Possibly the Amen can woman feels actually so dependent, economically and emotionally, on her husband that she has to appease her insecurity by identifying herself with one or more soap-opera heroines whose husbands can have no secrets from them . . . [This heroine], swayed, as she is always saying, only by her love for her husband and children...
...Scripter Kent added, wistfully: "When I think of that big, listening ear out there, I think how wonderful it would be if some writer could find a formula for giving women the substance and not the shadow of life...
...Steel, which sponsors the NBC Summer Symphony series, had decided it would also sponsor an original work, and had asked Gillis, 37, and vivacious NBC Scripter Claris Ross, 26, to write one. In a month, they had cooked up a 15-minute fantasy for children about a baby-sitting grandfather whose charge doubts his ability to sing her to sleep: "Humph! I'm the fellow who invented lullabies. In fact, I invented music...