Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CAROL FOR ANOTHER CHRISTMAS (ABC, 9:30-11 p.m.). The first of a series of specials on the U.N., this dramatic show is based loosely on Dickens' Christmas Carol, has a script by Rod Serling, a musical score by Henry Mancini, and is directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz...
...justly snicker a bit when this climactic encounter is interrupted by a uniformed station attendant who sings: "Shall I fill it up, Madame? Super or standard?" The sound of Muzak lyricism in the score is for the most part standard. There are no songs as such, but the script, in rhyme translated by prosaic subtitles, weaves themes of love and despair into insistent patter music that accompanies every utterance from "Je suis enceinte, Maman" to "pass the sugar...
Cash on the Bed. Eric Ambler might have written the script. The A.F.L. held an illegal secret draft -well before its officially scheduled draft meeting. And the N.F.L. hired "baby sitters" to hover over prize prospects and keep them out of the clutches of A.F.L. recruiters. An N.F.L. scout named Dick Pollard tagged along incognito when Indiana Fullback Tom Nowatzke flew to New York and talked contract with the A.F.L.'s New York Jets. The unwitting Jets gave Pollard a chatty tour of Shea Stadium ("Nice," said the spy) and allowed him to sit in on salary negotiations, thinking...
...memorials were, correctly, a tribute to his spirit rather than an attempt to overstate his accomplishments. Amid all the words written or spoken or sung, none put the tragedy and the truth of Kennedy's death into better perspective than the first two sentences in the script of An Essay on Death, a National Education Television documentary. "This is a program about death. It is also a commemoration of a man who was among us a short while ago, and one who, having been the essence of potentiality, stirred in us a deep and perplexing grief because that potentiality...
...script says that when the curtain goes up the character called Harry is standing on the walkway of the Brooklyn Bridge looking suicidal. He removes his coat. A friend he hasn't seen for 15 years comes up to him just then. He quickly puts the coat back...