Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Maybe this is the reason directors are so drawn to Shrew. They see a special challenge in the task of trying to compensate for the endless deficiencies in the script by hoking it up with all manner of ingenious gimmicks, ploys, and business. But I have never seen a production of Shrew that succeeded in being amusing all the way through, and I never expect...
...usual, De Gaulle pitted his own paramount need to unload France's high-priced farm surpluses against his partners' abiding desire for progress toward political integration. It was a familiar script, and it had always turned out the same way-France's way. Not this time. When French Foreign Minister Couve de Murville threatened Non unless the Common Market extended its community-wide farm-price agreements for five more years, the other members of the Six chorused Non! Non! Non! This time, they demanded, France could have its way on farm prices only by agreeing to major...
...bankruptcy in 1923, so did Son David's $300-a-week allowance and hopes for Yale. With his elder brother Myron, David staked himself for a trip to Hollywood by turning out two quickies that netted $16,000. Once there, David sold himself as a $100-a-week script reader at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, within months was an associate producer at triple the salary; Myron launched into a career as an agent, which in time landed him on the top of the heap...
...provides an exuberant reprise of his Zorba the Greek characterization, though the parallel becomes a bit insistent when he starts nuzzling Tampico's (and Zorba's) rarest old jade, Lila Kedrova. Despite an occasional drift into the shallows, High Wind never loses sight of its goals. The script even touches upon the novel's suggestion that the captain harbors a disquieting yen for the spunky ten-year-old Emily (Deborah Baxter), who ultimately spells his destruction...
After giving Hollywood a whole series of Armageddon operas-On the Beach, Dr. Strangelove, Fail Safe-fiction's doom boom has worn pretty thin. But not too thin for Welshman Peter George, 41, who co-authored the Strangelove script and wrote the novel, Red Alert, on which it was based. In Commander-1, he uses the familiar formula-headline-fresh immediacy wrapped around a minute kernel of plausibility. Red China, newly armed with a few primitive but potent nuclear bombs, decides to eliminate both Russia and the U.S. by convincing each that the other has launched...