Word: scripts
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Thus Gore wrote the outline of Brock's script. Issue by issue, Brock attacked systematically: gun control, school busing, the Haynsworth-Carswell votes, school prayer, support of the President on Viet Nam. Said Brock of the Senate doves who took credit for giving impetus to Nixon's latest peace proposal: "They disgust me?all of them, including Albert Gore." Ken Rietz, a partner of Harry Treleaven, the political TV consultant, came from Washington to manage Brock's campaign. "We did not underestimate Gore," said Rietz. "We never assumed that he was a dead dove." Aside from an advertising blitz that...
Since the film concerns itself exclusively with the painter-hero's interpretation of reality, it remains quite incapable of any kind of social analysis. By constructing a script around his subjectivity, it risks second-rate sensationalism at every turn. Nevertheless, its way of cramming things and events one after another without analysis has a certain value. It presents cultural object after cultural object to the audience...
...Critic-"Conceiver" Kenneth Tynan (Oh! Calcutta!), Entrepreneur Hugh Hefner (Playboy), and Director Roman Polanski (Knife in the Water) collaborate to make a movie, what will its title be? Macbeth! Shooting is scheduled to start in northern Wales next week with a script by Polanski, Tynan and Shakespeare, and a cast of unknowns, young enough to make the Weird Sisters not too unattractive with their clothes...
...Furie has concocted. Pollard, an amalgam of chagrin and Silly Putty, is C.W. Mossier than ever. Redford is one of the few actors who can look gaudy wearing nothing but blue jeans. But both characters have infantile psyches; they seem as incapable of sorrow as of happiness. The aimless script is even more anesthetized. Its lame jokes are articulated by stunted heroes and vapid chicks: the halt leading the bland. Though its budget appears generous, the film's editing is cut-rate; scenes end in mid-sentence and time is perpetually out of joint...
...than forty years S. J. Perelman has been writing some of the funniest things in English. He was a scriptwriter in Hollywood in the early thirties, and was responsible for some of the Marx Brothers' best films. In 1956 he won the N. Y. Film Critics' Award for the script of Around the World in 80 Days. Meanwhile he had found his niche in the New Yorker, writing the short, uncategorizable comic pieces which gave him his reputation, and thirty-two of which constitute Baby, it's Cold Inside. These pieces rely not so much on characters or situations...