Word: scriptful
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...defends his high pay scale because "this isn't radio, where someone puts a script in your hand a few hours before air time." On television, says Heller, "a performer's life is decapitated. Most of them can't do more than one show a week, because of rehearsal conflicts. We've set a salary bottom below which...
...picture's comic coloring of its familiar incidents sometimes comes close to falsifying them. But a skillful script, Vincente Minelli's brisk direction and another topnotch Tracy performance keep the humanity and the fun intact. Admirers of Father of the Bride will not be let down; all they have to fear now is that M-G-M will be tempted to go on working its father lode until the ore thins...
...Somerset Maugham Theater (alternate Mon. 9:30 p.m., NBC-TV), which moves to a new network and becomes an hour show, stumbled badly with its dramatization of Of Human Bondage. The script curiously diminished the role...
...combat scenes, which prove as taut as any fiction footage yet shot about World War II. But the picture gets into trouble after it gets back to the U.S. The hero's psychological troubles and diagnosis fall as patly into place as in a clinical report. When the script attempts to show him growing up emotionally in time for a hopeful ending, the change is so drastically telescoped and hastily motivated that the movie curls up and dies...
...script sacrifices them all to Hope's aggressive pursuit of anything for a laugh, from trip-hammer wisecracks to all-out slapstick. Since almost anything he does gets a laugh, none but the most stubborn Runyon fans should mind. Best scene: Hope trying to sneak the clothes off a department-store manikin without attracting attention from the crowd outside the window...