Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...script of A Child Is Waiting is put together with care and conscience, and on the whole Director John Cassavetes (Shadows) does a remarkably mature and measured job of putting it on film. Garland is good, Rowlands and Hill are excellent, Lancaster has never been better, and young Ritchey lives his role with such empathy that most spectators will simply assume he is one of the real defectives. But time and again the real defectives steal the show. At first the spectator can see only their defects, but at last he sees what lies behind the defects: children much like...
...January, 1961, President Kennedy invited Frost to read a poem at his inauguration. Facing a blinding sun, Frost was unable to read the script he had prepared and recited instead "The Gift Outright," a poem he wrote 20 years...
Playwright Robert Bolt, 38, has scored on the stage with his prizewinning A Man for All Seasons and on film with his script for Lawrence of Arabia. The son of a small furniture-shop owner, Bolt followed the scholarship route to university, cleaned latrines for the R.A.F., and was a totally unhappy schoolteacher before turning to writing. By any definition a concerned man, Bolt has been jailed for his ban-the-bomb convictions and argues, "Much ink, perhaps some blood, will flow before we arrive at a genuinely modern and credible vision of what a human person...
...decided the story had high dramatic possibilities but realized that it would never work as a play, being far too fragmentary in its details, too much a series of swift sketches covering a full year in time. It should do beautifully as a movie. But who would write the script? Who would direct? They looked at each other...
...slice. Broadway plays often crawl onto the boards that way, and that was the world the Perrys knew. Strange grapes were often dangled before the couple. One man said he would come through with about $100,000 if the Perrys would add a rape and a seduction to the script. Another fellow handed them a worthless check...