Word: scriptful
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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There Was a Little Girl, a Joshua Logan production, stars Jane Fonda, 22-year-old daughter of Henry. In the original script, she shared a motel bed with a rapist (Sean Garrison), and four-letter words crossed the footlights like crossbow bolts. That was too much for the mothers and fathers of Boston, whose reaction was so vivid that the language was cleaned up and the motel scene changed...
Between the years when Sir Isaac Pitman and John R. Gregg devised their competing shorthand systems (as any stenographer knows, Gregg's is now predominant in the U.S.), a man named Andrew Graham developed a Pitmanish shorthand scheme that resembled, as much as any script, Arabic. By the time he was 17, Woodrow Wilson had all but mastered the Graham system, in 1874 dashed off a note in Graham to Graham. For the rest of his life, Wilson kept improving his Graham to a degree where present historians almost wished for a shorthand Rosetta stone that would provide...
...probably an oversight that the name of Joe Liss was omitted from your review of the TV show The Margaret Bourke-White Story [Jan. 11]. But it was a huge oversight: Joe Liss wrote the script. In addition, he served as everybody's Father Confessor-to the cast, the director, to Maggie Bourke-White...
...shake scores of hands as the men headed for home. Hurrying back across town in the dusk, he stopped off at a press conference to explain his candidacy ("The Democrats need someone to meet Nixon head on"), then paused in his hotel room long enough to mull over the script of the address he was to make on television that night. Later, he slipped upstairs to join 40 of his top campaign workers, who were just sitting down to dinner. Humphrey had no time to eat, left his followers with a fast pep talk. "Wisconsin, as you know, has been...
...answer to this question sets up a hunky-gory conclusion to a plotsy-totsy script; but the actors are no match for the material. Debbie Reynolds, as the murderer's wife, is so cute it hurts. And Hero Ford, an actor who explains every joke with a series of vague, unnecessary gestures, kills more scenes than he does people. Still, a couple of hilarious reels and some nifty dialogue survive...