Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...House Un-American Activities Committee and was indicted for refusing to testify. Lily, as he called her, was then a rich writer, but, lest her career be jeopardized, she refused to make his bail, departing, instead, for London and Paris. Why? Reveling in success, and desperate to write the script for an Alexander Korda movie of War and Peace, she was afraid of being branded a leftist...
...Rules of the Game, set on the eve of World War II, and Bunuel's The Exterminating Angel, which was about a party that, mysteriously, no one could leave. This time there's no war, and it's the audience that's trapped. In Susan Minot's goofy script, Tyler ministers to ailing writer Jeremy Irons and other artsy layabouts while searching for the man on whom to bestow her virginity. The climactic deflowering scene provides the only giggles in an otherwise stodgy mess...
...remainder of the day is spent researching, dealing with breaking news events and preparing his news script...
...script is memorized rather than codified, lines continue to evolve and only the funniest carry over from year to year, says Colbert H. Cannon '97, president of the Crimson...
...next casting challenge was to get the cast's parents to sign off on the cruel, sexually frank script. "When the kids read it, they were unfazed. They'd say, 'I know a kid who has got it much worse than that,'" says Solondz. "But many of the parents were--and I think understandably--very unsettled by it." They used words like "sick" and "depressing." Heather's mom quashed some of the bad language, but still allowed her daughter to do a scene where she fantasizes about getting to third base...