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...central casting, Edward Anhalt, 51, would be a natural for the chain-gang fugitive-head shaved, clothes impressed, face haggard. And indeed he lives the life of a man pursued-by nearly every studio and producer in Hollywood. If they catch him, it will cost them a minimum of $5,000 a week, for Anhalt is one of the highest-paid scriptwriters in the business (1965 estimated income: $225,000) and, as the burst of applause that greeted his Oscar award for Becket last week proved, in the judgment of his fellow craftsmen one of the best...
...even think of improving lean Anouilh's Becket, whose Broadway production starred Laurence Olivier and Anthony Quinn, strikes theatrical circles as outrageous hubris, but it failed to faze Anhalt. "The main problem was to stop it from being a play," he explains, "to stop it from being theatrical, and to make it real. Becket on the stage was a series of stylized tapestries. Anouilh had to refer to things that happened offstage, the excommunication scene, or the scene in which Becket is accused by the King's prosecutor, for instance. I had to make the two men into...
Through the Superscope. In preparation, Anhalt read the play repeatedly and attended several performances before he began blocking out the screenplay. With Anouilh's dialogue firmly in mind, he proceeded to invent the missing scenes. Only when he had rewritten it as a screenplay, bearing in mind the mobility and intimacy of the camera, did he reread the play "to see if I had eliminated anything that I should have kept." He found his most important change had been to take much that seemed "too cerebral and put it back in emotional terms." The result was a stunning, emotional...
...craft and technique that has to be learned the hard way. Manhattan-born Eddie Anhalt began when he left Columbia University in his sophomore year. First he turned to film editing, shoestring documentaries, pulp fiction, and eventually grade-B pictures. "The film story could be anything I chose to invent," he recalls, "providing the star wore a dinner jacket at least once and was not obliged to run up or down stairs." Given a crack at a grade-A picture, Anhalt, with his first wife Edna, proved how good he could be; his first film, Panic in the Streets, starring...
WIVES AND LOVERS. A jack (Van Johnson) and two queens (Janet Leigh, Martha Hyer) make a full house in this amusing game of stud devised by Scriptwriter Edward Anhalt and Director John Rich, who for the most part play their cards very well indeed...