Word: prompter
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...cheese." This popular photo prompter of the English-speaking world is thought to have begun in British public schools around 1920, though society portraitist Cecil Beaton preferred his subjects to mouth the word "lesbian." Just as perverse, the French often opt for "le petit oiseau va sortir," Spaniards say "patata," while the Japanese have adopted the English term "whisky." As the relator of such delightful trivia, the latest elicitor of the smile is author Angus Trumble, whose A Brief History of the Smile (Basic Books; 226 pages) produces an abundance of them. Begun as a speech delivered to the Royal...
...prompters. I use prompters for the intro, but because some of this stuff is--I don't want to say mean--but edgy, I really don't put it on the prompter. It prevents record-company people from complaining ahead of time. You don't want Tommy Mottola screaming...
Students yesterday disagreed on whether the promise of prompter notification outweighed the excitement of receiving a traditional acceptance letter in the mail...
...little of my responsibilities as a so-called "production assistant." It quickly became clear that though my xeroxing skills were expected to be as fresh as the coffee I brought to my bosses each morning, the integral component to my job was the operation and management of the tele-prompter, or, as I came to know it, the tele-monster...
...crew and production team waited for Take 13. The speech repeated itself in a abridged version during Show 2, and in an even shorter shorter version during Show 3, but, somehow, by Show 4, I had found my rhythm, and was handling my new friend, the tele-prompter joystick, with the skill of any of the characters in the movie American Pie. Further-more, to be fair, the host abhorred the prompter, and ended up rarely using it during the course of the broadcasts, choosing instead to test his ad-libbing skills against the unpredictability of the motley crew...