Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...script provides a perfect framework for some winning one-liners. There is, for example, some insightful commentary from Ms. Ballzov. "When you've been sucking on the lemon of life as long as I have," she notes, "sometimes you have to pucker up and kiss it on the tuchus...
...BURNS, 27, is living the dream of every aspiring director from lower Manhattan to L.A. A film-school graduate and former production assistant on Entertainment Tonight (he quit last month), Burns spent five years sending his script for The Brothers McMullen to agents and distributors who would not return his phone calls. So he raised a few hundred thousand dollars, got nonprofessional actors to work for free and made the film himself. Last week the comedy about an Irish-American family won the grand jury prize at the Sundance Film Festival. But for Burns the highlight of the event...
...planned at Washington's National Air and Space Museum to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima. The exhibit, whose theme was American vengefulness and Japanese suffering in World War II, had led outraged veterans' groups to engage in endless negotiations with the curators to produce a script of at least minimal dignity and respect for history...
...reading of the exhibit script last August led me to a different conclusion. I figured that with curators who could describe the Pacific war thus: "For most Americans ... it was a war of vengeance. For most Japanese, it was a war to defend their unique culture against Western imperialism," there was no point in negotiating. You don't amend such tendentious anti-Americanism. You kill it. You scrap the 600-page commentary and follow the advice of General Paul Tibbets, pilot of the plane that dropped the bomb: display the restored Enola Gay in reverent silence, with only...
Seniors approach Gewanter with projects which range from Frasier scripts to more abstract literary endeavors. One student wanted to write a script based on "The Three Stooges of the Apocalypse: Larry, Curly, and Death...