Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...like a twelve-year-old tentatively imitating his big bad brother: sneaking a cigarette, practicing a curse word, miming an open-mouthed kiss. Sex can only be suggested, of course, but it may also be suggestive; one smoldering glance can steam up any innuendo. Extract from the pilot script for Emerald Point N.A.S. (CBS), a Jacuzzi-hot soap opera set on a naval base: "PAN FROM the clothes on the floor TO a man's jeans and Levi jacket draped over a chair. From just [off screen], little bleating sounds of passion, at once ladylike and sensual...
...Western State Hospital, patients make tape recordings, talking about their deviant sexual fantasies. The tape is played back and when it comes to the moment of sexual gratification, the script is changed so that something awful happens. Statistics show that 78% of those who complete the program at Western State have not so far committed other sex crimes. At the state prison in Avenel, N.J., a facility built solely for sex offenders, prisoners undergo fantasy reconditioning, masturbating for about an hour, until it is physically painful, to deviant fantasies...
There is no sure script written for the leading man in this continuing drama. But when a President begins to fancy the marching bands too much, he had better go to a prayer meeting...
...script also called for Congressman Silvio Conte to get a phone call from Ronald Reagan, the admirer who had a portrait of the parsimonious Coolidge moved into the Cabinet Room 2½ years ago. The chat between John Coolidge and Reagan will be beamed out over the lawn. John thought he might tell the story of his father's taking his two boys to stand in front of a bank. "See if you can hear anything," Coolidge admonished. They could not and so reported. "I thought if you listened carefully you might hear your money working...
Chase is another story altogether. Given a script for the first time that is not inane, he does not have to resort to his own antics to get the laugh. The performance is his best since he left Saturday Night because he plays a character--not himself. This is not a Chevy Chase movie, as were his past star vehicles with dwarves and dogs and the like. If Chase lacks a distinctive comic persona, his schlep routine served him well as the cause of his success. But it has also revealed his limitations as an actor. When Chase's characters...