Word: oursler
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fulton Oursler...
...Anne Frank), lugging along blueprints for this unwieldy magnum opus on the life of Christ, a work begun some five years and $20 million ago under benign auspices. "In creative association" with Poet Carl Sandburg, Stevens and Co-Author James Lee Barrett begat a script based loosely on Fulton Oursler's bestseller, on the Old and New Testament, and on other writings ancient and modern. His goal, Stevens proclaimed, was to create a definitive biography, "a Biblical classic that has vigor in ideas-with no souped-up spectacles, no sword fights, no bacchanalian orgies...
...season and weather, topography and political geography. Stevens carries around a huge black volume that contains seven major translations of the words of Jesus. He may try out three or four in a single scene to see which sounds best when spoken and recorded. The original script-Fulton Oursler's best-selling book-has long since been submerged and forgotten. Only its gaudy title remains, which Stevens stubbornly clings to for dubious reasons, even though it inevitably calls to mind all the spectacles he is trying to forget...