Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...inject "workplace humor." After the second season she stopped dating--some writers say because DeGeneres was uncomfortable with overtly heterosexual story lines, although she says she simply wasn't interested in doing a show that focused on relationships. As it happens, the code working title of the coming-out script, The Puppy Episode, is an in-joke reference to one of the lamer attempts to juice up the show: an executive's suggestion--DeGeneres won't say whose--that the show's creative problems might be solved if Ellen Morgan got a puppy...
...almost since its inception. So executives were receptive, if cautious, when DeGeneres and the show's producers first approached them last summer about the possibility. "It's not a no-brainer," understates Tarses, but tentative permission was granted for the show to go ahead, pending final approval of the script. Regrettably, at least from DeGeneres' and her staff's vantage point, the dragged-out decision process left them twisting in the wind...
Although his screenplay was never produced, May says that during his film negotiations he learned many technical skills such as how to format a script, how to manipulate voice-overs and how to define character action while still allowing for actor interpretation...
...clear that [my script] had been written by an amateur, but I think that they expected that," he says. "I suspect that they were also excited to tout something new and unique, a young kid writing a screen-play...
...first, which he is writing with a Los Angeles screenwriter and an MIT professor, is an action film. However May insists that he cannot reveal more because they are in the process of marketing the script...