Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...minds whether Joe was a liability or an asset? Last week no clear conclusion was apparent; the pols didn't want Joe in the Administration's hair, but they thought they might need him in the campaigning season. But the pols were not writing Joe's script. Joe was writing it-with more of an eye for his headlines than for the interests of his party...
Unlike his creature, Sergeant Friday, Webb can roar with laughter and talk with vast intensity and enthusiasm. He attracts all sorts of people. But he has few friends, almost no social life and is seldom seen in Hollywood nightspots. Nothing but an ailing script can keep him from sleeping nine hours a night, and he is hard at work every morning at 8 o'clock. In his spare time he stares at motion pictures, often "stopping them and backing them up" to engage in rapt inspection of every last optical effect and lap dissolve. In five years...
...credit of the cast, the actors try every bit as hard as their script writers. Kitty Carlisle, fresh from innumerable operettas, can get laughs without musical accompaniment, while MacDonald Carey, as her husband, is properly harassed. Lesser roles are handled by Phyllis Povab, a neurotic and amusing mother-in-law, and blustery Howard Smith. These leads produce a smooth performance from an almost unrelated series of family squabbles...
...been looking with renewed diligence for more. Seventeen months ago, in a cave at Wadi Qumran, in Jordan, a band of diggers found a stone writing table almost 2,000 years old, and strewn about it scraps of leather and papyrus, enough to fill several bushel baskets. The Hebrew script on the papyrus was minuscule,'and many fragments could be read only with the help of an infrared camera. But the texts, when examined, turned out to cover almost half of the Old Testament. Their date, from...
Miss Julie displays far more effectively the genius of director Alf Sjoberg than that of Strindberg, for the visual effects threaten to swallow the story itself. Although the script changes barley a line of the play, the film projects the drama on an infinitely broader canvas, interpolating speeches with artful flashbacks. As a result, Miss Julie dispels much of the tautness and unity of the play and frequently accentuates its dated melodrama. Whether a less imaginative transcription of Miss Julie would hold much interest for modern audiences is questionable, however. The place of Strindberg's picture of tormented souls...