Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Segal to Revise Script...
Scenarists Sidney Buchman and Stanley Mann, deftly dodging every clinical cliché, negotiate a warren of psychiatric explications with grace and clarity. To date, theirs is undoubtedly the year's most skillful script; but it shows more than skill. It unlids that black hole of unbeing into which any man might at some time fall. It drops the spectator suddenly through the floor of everyday reality and leaves him for some shuddering moments in the depths from which Dostoevsky cried to heaven: "Man, man! One cannot live quite without pity...
Time Being is that the writer of the script knows her people and their backyards, as well as they know the patches on their clothes. And when Paul Bembroy discovers a new, or rediscovers an old, comet, his joyless and loveless life seems to have been justified...
Novelist Sidney Peterson, who has written everything from the religious life of a lunatic (unpublished) to a UPA script with the title THE INVISIBLE MOUSTACHE OF RAOUL DUFY, knows a tremendous amount about art. So does the fly. Part of the book's obvious charm comes from the fly's painterly descriptions of practically everything: "Her neck swelled Ingresly, as with an enlarged thyroid...
...Despite an overly cute central idea and the flim-flamboyance of Star Susan Hayward, competent script and direction make this a pleasant political comedy about the road from bawdyhouse to Governor's mansion...