Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite the phony dramaturgy of the script and narration, F.D.R. is one more victory for F.D.R. His warmth, his charm, his wit and his arrogance are everywhere in the pictures of him. When the raw material is left alone, it is most eloquent. There is, for instance, a splendid home-movie clip of a dozen or so of his fellow polio victims, all youngsters, surrounding him and eventually inundating him in a water-polo game at Warm Springs. And there is a delightful illustration of Roosevelt's jaunty sense of perquisite as he is being piped aboard a light...
...these bald philosophic propositions are the weakest part of a suspenseful and moving script. Of course it's redundant for the man to say "It's useless," or "Even a monkey could be trained to do this" when he's digging in a hole as dismal as that one; but after sand, struggle and serendipity, when life gets reduced to ciggs, sake, and sex, the sensations are powerfully communicated to the audience: you taste that drag, you smell that swig, you ... like the feelies in Brave New World...
Though the script read like a rejected passage from an Evelyn Waugh novel of black Africa, it did indeed happen-to Julius Nyerere, last week in Zanzibar...
...trip. Wasserman is the sort of man who will not, for example, use 20 helicopters when one would do. He will not use one helicopter if a telephone call would be good enough. He will pay a writer like Rod Serling $15,000 for a single one-hour script, and his Bob Hope Chrysler Theater frequently exceeds $200,000 a show, but this does not imply that he thinks money can write or act. "He has a genius for what people like," says Tony Curtis. "He wouldn't make a boring picture, like what I call Breakfast at Nuremberg...
...Court on the ground that its $4,000,000 farce "causes irreparable injury to the high prestige, reputation and good will of the university [TIME, Dec. 18]." Warmly agreeing, Justice Henry Clay Greenberg last week slapped a temporary injunction against the film's scheduled Christmas Day opening. "The script is ugly, vulgar and tawdry," said Greenberg. "This is a clear case of commercial piracy...