Word: scripts
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Plans to take the show to New Haven are still indefinite. Ritchie would prefer not to produce ODPB as part of the Yale Drama Festival because this would force an elimination of scenery and curtailment of the script to fit into the one-hour time limit...
...known that a television producer had rejected Osborne's very first TV effort, with a broad hint that it was amateurish. Abed with flu. Osborne grumped unsportingly: "Television is to the theater what etching is to oils." Then word leaked that still another producer had bounced the same script. Snarled Osborne: "What was a private negotiation has now become a public sport. I shall withdraw it.'' But he did not have to; he already had it back...
...thoroughly, mastered the cramped, stilted gestures typical of Parkinsonism. The part of LIFE Photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt, whose firm support helped see his colleague through her time of trouble, was well played by Actor Eli Wallach. Although the "living color" was a little too vivid in the script as well as on the screen, the total result was effective...
...Brando? In working out the show, producers and cast had a few problems with the medical profession. After reading the script, Dr. Russell Meyers, chief of neurosurgery at the University of Iowa, sent off a flamboyant, eight-page, single-spaced letter to NBC Chairman Robert W. Sarnoff. Meyers had many complaints, centering on the script's "implicit false optimism." One claim that Dr. Meyers disputed in particular was the script's suggestion that Photographer Bourke-White's surgeon had invented the special technique used in her operation. The technique should be credited, said Meyers, to Meyers...
Middle of the Night. A wise, touching description of a love affair between a middle-aged man (Fredric March) and a girl in her 20s (Kim Novak). Actor March is superb, and the script is probably the best thing Playwright Paddy (Marty) Chayefsky has ever done (TIME, June...