Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...winning girl and pleasant to watch. Other shows are made palatable by three even riper pomegranates. Inger Stevens, for example, could stand still and smile for 30 minutes and win a higher rating than Joe Valachi pitching for the Dodgers. Unfortunately, she is imprisoned in the script of The Farmer's Daughter (ABC), a comedy series loosely based on the old Loretta Young movie. Diahn Williams is one of Harry's Girls (NBC), a comedy about a dance act that tours Europe. Most preadolescents have traveled enough to wince at the show's gauche international flavorings...
...movie script? A sixth-grader's dream of glory? Not at all. Roger Thomas Staubach, 21, Naval Academy midshipman and college quarterback beyond compare, was playing football against Southern Methodist University in Dallas. And as 37,000 bedazzled fans in the Cotton Bowl screamed wildly-for him, against him, or just from the sheer excitement of it-Quarterback Staubach put on a show that even the most jaded pro-football fan would find breathtaking to behold...
Literary Prize. Greek was the educated language of Egypt in those days, and most of the manuscripts are in Greek, along with some in Egyptian demotic script. Professor Bataille classifies the best of his finds, presses them between big white blotters and makes them available to qualified scholars...
Well, he can have it. For one thing, his script urgently requires the attention of that fur salesman. For another, it tells a story that has been told, and told more excitingly, a hundred times before: the story of the innocent young American girl who goes to wicked old Paris and soon loses her illusions and everything. Jean Seberg as usual (Breathless, Playtime) plays the American in Paris, and as usual she wins the customer's sympathy-she tries so hard...
...script is still a stage play, the settings are obviously painted flats, the actors yassuh-massuh and lay on the Virginia ham as though the camera were 30 rows away. What's more, Scenarist Davis plays up to the white folks as often as he beats them down. The side characters are sarcastic caricatures of Aunt Jemima, Uncle Tom and any old suth'n cunnel (Sorrell Booke); the hero is a big-mouthed burlesque of Dr. Martin Luther King. Nevertheless, every third line sinks in like a needle-not so deep it draws blood but deep enough...