Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Given a one-joke script, Director George Abbott whipped it into a happy frenzy that survived for three seasons on Broadway. Movie Director Bud Yorkin borrows bits of Abbott's inventiveness, but his own method is to linger over a gag until all the life has run out of it. He belabors a drunk scene, overestimates the humor in the plight of Ford's married but childless daughter (Connie Stevens) who browbeats her callow husband (Jim Hutton) into orgies of planned parenthood. There is something unwholesomely prudish about a hip young modern who greets the revelation...
...frightening because they make the bizarre inescapably logical, and any work of art dealing in horror and suspense must try to do the same. Dream-logic is clearly the goal in Repulsion, Roman Polanski's second feature-length film, but a clumsy visual style, dull acting, and a rudimentary script prevent the characters from ever seeming real. We are not afraid because we see through the illusion, and the best one can say of Polanski is that at least he is enough of a magician to keep us from laughing...
...script was rewritten late Friday night as "A Tribute to the Theater of the Absurd." Samborski refused to comment on the censorship, but noted that "it was a wonderful show Saturday and everybody liked...
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Since the Department of Athletics controls all activities in the stadium including the p.a. system, the band must submit each program script for review. As in the past, Bamborski consulted Deans Watson and Ford making a final decision...