Word: scripts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Bob Considine was ghosting another surefire script for 150 newspapers: the story of Robert E. Stripling, longtime chief investigator for the House Committee on Un-American Activities. As usual, Considine faced a deadline that would have daunted a less workmanlike writer. The first of his 28, "as told to" articles (average length: 1,800 words) would go to press next week, just a month after he took on the job. As usual, Considine's first version would be the last...
...slippery heel. He injects a good deal of humor into his acting, notably through gestures. Despite this, however, the characters of the wife and daughter are more intriguing, if less whole. Arlene Francis plays the wife with a restraint that suggests that there is more to her than the script will allow. Her part is brief and disturbing; the audience is hardly allowed to make more than a "cocktail-party analysis" of her personality...
...with the out-of-town opening of a production of The Taming of the Shrew. The pair who play Katharine and Petruchio were once stormily married and are still snarlingly in love, and the cuffing and spitting in their performances are more intense than Shakespeare's script requires. With a sharp eye, Kiss Me, Kate kids Shakespeare and show business impartially; and whenever the taming threatens to become too tame, out pops a dancer or up strikes the band...
...fictitious killing at Hyannis, on Cape Cod, will serve as the basis of the plot, Taylor said. Further details of the plot were unavailable last night, since the latest edition of the script had not reached Taylor's desk...
When Producer Roberto Rosselini ("Open City") made "Paisan," he was not trying to create a polished masterpiece. He knew that war is not a plot, a story, a typewritten script. Rather, war is no more than an endless sequence of horrible episodes, and that, precisely, is what the movie "Paisan," successfully puts across...