Word: scenarist
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...sense of satisfaction and no end in sight. His dedication to the grotesque would have been commendable if it were the driving force of the book, but Barlow fancies himself a nostalgic explorer and culinary storyteller in addition to a would-be “Fear Factor” scenarist. And in his revelry he often loses sight of his quest. Though he’s mastered the art of revulsion, his approach to the romantic food-writing genre is muddled. Yes, food and culture are intimately linked, but Barlow forgets that in such an explicitly culinary journey, cultural stories...
...Audiences don't know somebody sits down and writes a picture," says the cynical scenarist played by William Holden in Billy Wilder's 1950 Sunset Blvd. "They think the actors make it up as they go along." O.K., most actors don't write their own dialogue. But they are more than handsome lugs and ladies. They are the script's words made flesh, the director's dreams embodied. And for us people out there in the dark, actors are our best, our baddest, our deepest and most glamorous selves...
...which treated seduction wittily and used then banned words like virgin; The Man with the Golden Arm (1955), which graphically depicted drug addiction; Anatomy of a Murder (1959), with its detailed courtroom discus sion of a rape; and Exodus (1960), for which he defied McCarthyist blacklisting by hiring Scenarist Dalton Trumbo; of cancer; in New York City. A successful producer-director in Vienna before coming to the U.S. in 1936, he worked on Broadway and in Hollywood, where his first triumph was the masterly thriller Laura (1944). He also acted on stage and in films, often as a menacing Nazi...
Twice in a Lifetime would deserve respectful attention if all it did were redress that imbalance. But the story of how the 30-year marriage of Steelworker Harry Mackenzie (Hackman in another solid performance) and his wife Kate (Ellen Burstyn) sunders has another dimension. Scenarist Welland (who wrote Chariots of Fire with another kind of class consciousness) and Director Yorkin (who created All in the Family with Norman Lear) want to use the Mackenzies' disorder to explore sympathetically an entirely unfashionable layer of life...
...reality was more dramatic than even a histrionic Rooney could have made it - or at least played it, while Rodgers was around and his brother-in-law Ben Feiner Jr. was helping to write the movie's screenplay. (Another scenarist, by the way, was Guy Bolton - the book writer 30 years earlier of the Princess Theatre shows that had inspired Rodgers and Hart to try musical comedy.) Just before the opening, Hart had been on one of his suicidal toots, and when he arrived at the theater an exasperated Rodgers forbade him entrance. Two days later, ill with pneumonia...