Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...humility for many of us in the business of measuring the progress of the men battling their way toward the White House. Gary Hart was not supposed to win in New Hampshire because the creators of the modern political spectacle- the consultants, the pollsters and the media - wrote the script, as signed the parts and hailed the preordained result before the vote. The people were told what was going to happen, but they were never properly consulted...
...viewers feel like tourists who have spent a day without suntan lotion under the scorching rays of Rio-completely burned. Unlike the cast, who blame Rio's sultry steaminess for their inane behavior, we can only blame co-writers Charles Peters and Larry Gelbart for their soap-opera like script and contrived plot...
...cruises nightclubs. Matthew begins an affair with Jennifer, the adolescent. Gelbart and Stevens must have thought that Rio exudes an atmosphere that sparks improbable romances. How else could one explain the affair between the sheepish Matthew and the sultry Jennifer. Since no legitimate explanation can be gleaned from the script, we are forced to believe Jennifer's explanation, when she tells Nicki "I've always had a crush on your father...
...script jabs at the most tolerant viewer's sensibilities with lines like "Someone else deals the cards, I just play 'em," and "If I'm not out in twenty minutes, I'm not comin...
LASSITER IS SUPPOSED to be a vehicle for Magnum P.I.'s star, but its inane script and direction render him trivial (Young, by the way, directed the 1980 pilot episode of Magnum P.I.). Selleck has failed at his second attempt to capture the larger screen (High Road to China came first). His dimpled affability has garnered an affectionate viewership, and enabled him to walk through weekly episodes of a standard-issue television series: geniality, however, is of negligible value during cinematic scenes which grind so slowly, one can hear crew members in the background phoning home for late dinners...