Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Other Pastures. Following the time-honored Detroit script, union leaders, expressed shock and anger. "Incredibly inadequate," cried U.A.W. Vice President Leonard Woodcock, chief of the union's G.M. department. Stalking out of the Chrysler meeting, U.A.W. Vice President Norman Matthews, who heads both the union's Chrysler and American Motors departments, snapped: "I'm going where the grass is greener." He headed for American Motors...
Actor Johnson just stands in the corner of the screen, as far as possible from the hero-when they stand together. Whitman looks sort of puny. When at last somebody speaks to him. Johnson looks startled, makes a reply that does not appear in the script...
...famous men. playing baroque quintets in the evening, avidly at all times hankering after news of the hero's latest fructifications. For the first half-hour the dream world has its humors, but it soon gets to be as dull as any other adolescent fantasy. Still, the script offers some wickedly keen lines. "Now let's talk about you," says a busy industrialist, figuring to give the little woman's morale a lift. "Were the shrubs delivered...
...balance with the substance, the taste with the tasty; and Buddha himself -played by 23-year-old Rising Son Kojiro Hongo-will only appear in the flesh during the first segment of the film. After that, he becomes a ray of light, a murmur of thunder. The script even avoids mentioning the birth of the Enlightened One's child, but otherwise spares nothing: the cartoon bevies of sensual maidens who surround the young prince, the rape of his wife by his malevolent cousin Devadatta, the visions of seminude sorceresses who tempt him to turn from...
Under the direction of Marston Balch, the current performances by students and semi-professional players convey more than a minimal amount of the wondrous blend of humor and pathos in the script. And there are some fine moments in John McLean's Laudisi, Carroll Cole's mad (?) young man, and Barbara Joseph's mad (?) mother...