Word: scripted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...elaborate pretense that all this nonsense is on the up-and-up is carried into all levels of wrestling. The actors themselves insist that no one writes a script for them. Carried away with enthusiasm for the cash they rake in, agents and matchmakers join the chorus. "You oughta see the casualty list," says Mondt. But there are a few practitioners who have escaped to higher arts, and they are prone to tell it straight...
...remaining two hours of Juno are generally undistinguished, except for a refreshing lack of the sleaziness and greasiness which still stain most musicals. The major trouble is book trouble: Joseph Stein's script, with its long scenes of aimless small talk taken largely intact from the play, is a monument to misguided fidelity. Mr. Stein has already been chewed out by O'Casey's admirers for associating himself with a huge job of lily-gilding. It seems to me, on the contrary, that what Juno needs is fewer drab, limp petals, and more bright fresh gilt...
...talker, Dr. White is no jazzy showman ; he drones at times like a farm agent exhaling a market report. Yet he somehow makes physics a sort of cosmic cooking course that can fascinate anyone. White's secret is superb preparation: he spends twelve hours every day writing the script, building laboratory props and rehearsing with a 21-man crew. The preparation has to be right; a faulty wire can delay an entire day's lesson...
...moment of truth for these characters sadly shatters the mythic mood of the play. When the bandit is revealed as a braggart, the samurai as a snuffling coward and his wife as a trollop, the Kanins' script, unlike the film, fumbles away the Swiftian savagery of Akutagawa for something close to farce. What Akutagawa intended as the subtle shadow play of appearance and reality becomes, in the wigmaker's summing up, little more than an optical illusion: "Truth is a firefly...
Playhouse 90 (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). Insisting that its famed herd of playwrights has not deserted TV, CBS resuscitates Reginald (Twelve Angry Men) Rose, after two years' absence from TV, in a script about a poker game that gets out of hand. Among the inside straight shooters: Barry Sullivan, Franchot Tone, Gary Merrill...