Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...been a standing joke within the troupe that artistic director Daniel Sullivan always fills the holiday slot with some play involving suicide. So when he decided to do the ultimate "Bah, humbug!" and create a show mocking the Carols elsewhere, he wrote an offstage suicide into the script. That small self-indulgence is about the only inside joke in Inspecting Carol, a piece so accessible and hilariously funny that, to Sullivan's surprise, it is also being produced this holiday season by half a dozen other theaters from Alaska to Sag Harbor, New York. At Chicago's Steppenwolf, part...
Sullivan, who wrote the script in collaboration with the actors, borrowed the theme from Gogol's masterpiece The Inspector General, about a corrupt town that goes all out trying to bribe a feckless clerk whom it collectively mistakes for a government investigator. The setting and some of the plot, however, came from an episode Sullivan heard about when serving on a National Endowment for the Arts theater panel: a beleaguered troupe, desperate to sustain its grant, offered to bribe an agency inspector who was also a playwright by pledging to produce his plays...
...movie producer David O. Selznick had to do it. He was a drug addict (Benzedrine), a compulsive gambler (in 1946 alone he lost $581,621) and an equally compulsive womanizer (no star, secretary or script girl was safe from his lunging, oafish passes). He was often drunk, he never smoked less than three packs a day, and he usually worked deep into the night, wearing out ranks of stenographers as he manically dictated memos, stream-of- consciousness-style, in an attempt to maintain control over every detail of his films and of a business and personal life that yearly grew...
Over 100 students have expressed interest in HRTO, said member Elizabeth H. Miller '92-'93. Miller said that HRTO members can work in any stage of film production, including script writing, "teching" and publicity...
...nice mismatching of characters, the kind that movies have always wanted us to believe leads inevitably to love. It's a nice mismatching of star images too -- Ms. Sinuosity and Mr. Straight Arrow. And it works pretty well. Lawrence Kasdan's script gives Rachel a messy life: the band rehearsing in her living room, members of her entourage wandering in and out, a son lonesome and looking for a father figure. In contrast, Frank has no life at all: an underfurnished tract house with the mail piling up at the front door, no visible friends or light-minded interests...