Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wrote Born Yesterday, Broadway Playwright-Director Garson Kanin. His hero, played by Craig Stevens, is a press-agent who calls Kilgallen before he calls the police. The show is nervously edited and stuffed with cameo appearances by Leonard Lyons and Oleg Cassini-all the symptoms of a script that has been wadded rather than written...
Twenty thousand happy fans in the Stadium Saturday watched Harvard's football opener against Massachusetts follow a tried-and-true script: Harvard leads ball game, Harvard throws away ball game, Harvard comes back and wins ball-game. The score this time...
...with her for a weekend on Staten Island, where he did all the chores for a family of five. Impossible as it may seem, the show was amusing, but only because Tony Franciosa, as the publisher, delivered a winning personality far in excess of the requirements of the script, and Jack Soo, who looks like Robert Mitchum, was irresistible as his Chinese manservant, who talks hip and fancies the ponies...
...board chairman. Both the show and the corporation obviously float on his style alone. Last week, on a bet, he went out to prove that he could start over again with $10 and captain a new industry in no time. He did, with a clanking assist from the script. But what he owed the writers was nothing beside what they owed him. He even scored with an old one-liner about banks: "Never trust a place where they pull the shades down at three o'clock in the afternoon...
...Busy to Listen. With such earned authority, Boyer has become a potent force on TV and film sets. He makes directors flinch. He watches rushes each day. If he does not like a scene, it is shot again. He gives stage directions, changes scripts, talks rapidly and is too busy to listen. When he happens to own the company that is doing the shooting, all this is his privilege; but he acts the same way when he is merely an employee. In Hold Back the Dawn, he played a European refugee trying to get into the U.S. from Mexico...