Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...play is flawed is not so much in inflating Senator Joe McCarthy, who appears as a dark, looming cloud over Washington, but rather in what Oppenheimer himself sharply calls "improvisations which were contrary to history and to the nature of the people involved." Oppenheimer branded as false the script's statement that Physicist Niels Bohr disapproved of the work at Los Alamos because he was worried about domination by the military. "Bohr understood and welcomed what we were doing," says Oppenheimer. An even graver distortion is the script's assertion that Oppenheimer felt that in making the bomb...
They set just the right langorous pace at the very beginning. Yet because the actors never seem embarassed by the long pauses which Chekhov actually wrote into the script, but instead used them to fill out their characterizations, the play never drags. And despite some serious lapses in acting, the cast as a whole maintains an almost flawless bittersweet tone throughout the play...
...agent engaged in a week-by-week struggle against boll weevils, nematodes, no-see-'ems, and other incorrigibles of the plains. Calhoun may have been a dog, but Miller's book is a vivid and often hilarious account of how TV's butchers can change any script into hamburger...
...have to be loved . . . What CBS wants is a kind of friendly lynch mob scene." Beads for Sale. Miller's Jackie Cooper, who was going to play the lead in the series, is a picture of the modern actor as an "incorporated" millionaire, who seeks control of scripts, direction, and other aspects of production quite clearly out of his mental range. Cooper called Miller a great or beautiful writer about 100,000 times-then turned up one day with a new version of the script, written by someone else...
Playwright Paddy Chayefsky, who wrote the script for Emily, obviously intended a black comedy in the style of Dr. Strangelove, a savage sneer at war and all it bloody works. But if Strangelove with cheery ferocity reminded its audiences that every cloud has a strontium lining. Emily in confused conclusion managers to suggest that every human value has a wormy caramel center...