Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lizzie, Inga Swenson plays what the contradictory script calls for, a kind of shrinking oak. Rainmaker Robert Horton lacks the magical potency to make an audience believe in belief, and Agnes De Mille's dances are tired shoeings from her too-familiar rodeography. Only the wistfully melodic score by Broadway newcomers Harvey Schmidt and Tom Jones has what the show is parched for-heart...
ROUTE 66 (CBS, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Tammy Grimes plays an acoustical engineer in a script by Sterling Silliphant...
HERE'S LOVE. Meredith Willson's Music Man bounce has deserted him in this musical adaptation of the movie Miracle on 34th Street. It may be Christmas time in the script, but the show has all the festive gaiety of Maundy Thursday...
...went the script for the French army's annual fall war games. The setting was lovely: the meadows and fir-covered hills of the Jura mountains, a few miles from the Swiss border. The assemblage was splendid: Charles de Gaulle in his brigadier general's uniform; Premier Georges Pompidou; General Charles Ailleret, the modern-minded chief of staff of all French forces; General Louis Le Puloch, the traditionalist chief of staff...
Writers are his maintenance crew. Hope knows that his own native humor would never have got him out of Cleveland. He once waved a script at his writers and said, "This is all the talent I have, fellows." For it, he pays eight of them more than $450,000 a year. Thus each Hope joke is worth roughly the cost of a natural pearl...