Word: scripting
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Although listening to the DNA testimony in the Simpson trial has been about as gripping as counting bricks, someone has seen a TV show in it. CBS has ordered a script for a drama series based on defense DNA experts Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld's legal practice and clinic. The lawyers are reportedly writing the script now--gee, does O.J. know?--so the show can be ready next year, in time to combat Simpson-trial withdrawal symptoms. GO, SAYS...
...based on a script of Crichton's that had been moldering around Hollywood for 22 years, is just the latest evidence that Crichton hits more passes than anyone else at the high roller's table, even with old dice. From his best-selling The Andromeda Strain (the first novel he wrote under his own name), which became a hit movie in 1971, through Jurassic Park, with a worldwide box-office take of $912 million the most popular movie of recorded history, he is a giant even among those other pop novelists--John Grisham, Stephen King, Tom Clancy--whom Hollywood...
...bail bondsman." Yet the medical-school years gave him "a fund of experience and a sense of pace. Things happen fast. I still think it's true that any sense of narrative pacing on my part comes out of the emergency room." Indeed, in 1974 he wrote a movie script about his emergency-room experiences but got no takers in Hollywood. Years later, Steven Spielberg took a shine to it, and eventually shepherded it onto TV. The result was ER, the biggest hit of the 1994-95 season and, with 30 million viewers, now the most popular show on television...
Andrew Kevin Walker wrote the screenplay for "Seven" while working at Tower Records in New York, and as a first script it borders on the extraordinary. The writing is powerful, meaningful and interesting, while resisting the impulse to be overly flashly. Even with that script, the innovative direction, and the extraordinary artistic design, the acting is what makes "Seven" really special...
Talusan said the Broadway production didn't deal well with the homosexual aspect of the script because there was always the constraint of a Broadway audience...