Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fine documentary chance to explore the hazards of arctic flying and to train his camera on a bleak but beautiful terrain (the picture was made, not in Labrador, but in the Donner Lake region of northern California). What slows things down is the high-blown rhetoric of the script, the tediously familiar characterizations of the flyers, and the endless invisible choirs that form the musical background of every shot of storm-cleared...
...justice of the Czechoslovak people, who are working for peace"), he copied it in his own handwriting just so his wife would know he was still alive. When Oatis later stood up in court, a guard at each elbow, he simply parroted almost "word for word a script they had written for me." "Do you feel guilty?" asked the judge when he had finished. "Yes, I do," answered Oatis dejectedly. "Seventy days of questioning had taught me that was the right answer...
...windup of last week's World tournament couldn't have been more spectacular if May himself had written the script. Onetime (1947) U.S. Open Champion Lew Worsham. needing a birdie on the final 410-yd., par4 hole to tie Virginia's Chandler Harper, smashed out a 270-yd. drive. He then calmly took a wedge, plopped the ball onto the green and into the hole for an eagle 2. Jubilantly aghast, Worsham murmured: "The luckiest shot I ever had." Lucky or not, it was worth $25,000 to Lew Worsham, whose 72-hole score...
...after due reflection: "To find something similar to Edith Piaf's Parisian material but in the American idiom, a song with a story about people." When she finds a song she likes, she works on it like an actor boning up on a script. "A song deals with a person," she tells herself. "I have to get an image of that person and convey that image to everyone else." Songstress Sanders also tries for "a sort of sexiness which accepts sex without having to emphasize...
...Cowhand Cooper's lean hips seem almost nude without a couple of trusty six-shooters, but the script allows him to remain as unbendingly oaken as ever in the face of all storms, meteorological as well as emotional, and he manages to make the tough, footloose sailing man reasonably credible. The picture's best feature: its richly authentic atmosphere. Filmed entirely in British West Samoa, the movie offers strikingly Technicolored views of the sea, the island and its people, swimming in their blue lagoon, climbing tall palms, and doing their intricately graceful Sasa, classical dance of Samoa. Unlike...