Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Saroyan began rehearsals fortnight ago with little more than a title, has let dia logue grow out of onstage argument among the actors, has written and rewritten so furiously that there are seldom enough copies of the latest script to see the cast through a complete scene. But everyone agrees that the play is pure Saroyan the latest gust of a strong second wind that seems to be reviving a 51 -year-old writer who has long seemed written...
...Savoy Hotel room, bats out ten pages of dialogue every night. In the theater, his lugubrious, fiercely mustachioed face looms over a thick athletic frame that is forever on the move: he bounces onstage to demonstrate high-jumping technique or prowls the auditorium calling out sudden changes in the script. He carves the air with the sweeping gestures of an orchestra conductor, comes to roost like a stork, one leg cocked, on the rail of the pit. "Give it music." he may order an actor, or "Give it a Marlon Brando mumble...
From Hate to Hope. The struggle begins in Bergman's first script, where it is expressed as a young man's attempt to escape the influence of a cold and evil old man. He fails. In Bergman's early films the evil old man is gradually transformed into an evil mother (Illicit Interlude), who tells her son he will never be able to live his life. He drowns. Then dramatically in The Naked Night, one of Bergman's most powerful films, the hero after a moral and physical ordeal kills a bear. One Jungian analyst, after...
...some of Bergman's friends, the suburban idyl looks too good to last. One of them skeptically recalls a line from a Bergman script: "Happiness is a thick, paralyzing pastry settling down on one's everyday life." But so far happiness has not stifled Bergman's creative inspiration. Last week most of his next film, a comedy called The Devil's Eye, was in the can, and he was hard at work on the script of another picture. And it will take him a dozen years, he expects, to make all the other movies...
...That Lady? scarcely skirts the standard pitfall of the comedy of errors: i.e., as the errors multiply, the comedy divides and dwindles. But Lady's trio of nimble headliners foot the measures of Producer-Writer Norman Krasna's so-so script trippingly. Dean Martin neatly blends tomfoolery and tomcattery. Except for the initial spat, real life Husband-and-Wife Team Curtis and Leigh nibble at each other as voraciously as if they were hors d'oeuvres at a cannibal cocktail party. The assorted nonsense will probably irk no one except college faculty wives, who may find...