Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Irish Republican Army terrorist-hero blows up a British army truck in midafternoon, the deed will probably be a song in the pubs that night. Such ready glorification is one reason that no peaceful settlement has been found. Sitcom writers have developed similar reflexes. Topicality, however, ages a script rapidly. It strands an episode in time, and makes reruns seem alienated, quaint...
...decent work in a few good movies (Some Came Running, Rio Bravo), but passed through others with slight effect, like the gentle baritone rumbling of a distressed stomach. His TV show was flash encircling stupor: the Golddigger chorines did their cooch; the cue-card girl had the script written on her bare midriff. And in the middle, so laid-back as to be supine, was Dino -- on the cutting edge of lumpen-American mediocrity...
That's the premise of The Big Hype,the latest novel from Avery Corman, author of Oh, God! and Kramer vs. Kramer. Paul Brock is a successful script writer who's fed up with Hollywood and with his lack of creative control over his scripts. No more movies-of-the-week about Lyme disease--he's going to finish his novel. As he soon discovers, however, the publishing business is just as hype-ridden as Hollywood. No one is willing to take a chance to Brock; they'll publish his book, but won't go out of their...
...women, the fellow should choose a prospect (Judith Henry), seduce her, then leave her and write a best seller about his experience. But Christian Vincent's LA DISCRETE is no frivolous American sex comedy; it is French, in the best sense of the word. With breathless poise, the script by Vincent and Jean-Pierre Ronssin juggles cruelty and gaiety, revealing modern man as a ruthless appraiser auditioning women for his imaginary harem. Hollywood wouldn't know what to do with a film so airy, so grave. Poetry is what gets lost in transatlantic remakes...
...depicts the former Olympic pixie as an unhappy, selfish and dishonest woman: "Her voice is flat and uninflected; it lacks the ardency of truth...Reading what she has said over the years is like walking through halls of mirrors; she issues denials and counterdenials, she writes and rewrites the script, editing all the time, contradicting her contradictions...