Word: scripted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Roots of Heaven, angrily denied the Foreman charge: "I have no control of any sort over her career." Greco may have given Zanuck that impression by accepting the lead in a British-German film against his advice. When he descended on her German location not long ago to demand script changes and shower presents, Greco purred by phone from her hotel room: "You can't come up. Wait there and I might come down." Then she went to bed, leaving Zanuck to shiver alone on the terrace in the autumn night. ¶ Sailors' eyes clicked like gyro-repeaters...
...domestic small talk or campus chatter. So much single-mindedness, so many double meanings have a way-despite occasionally funny lines-of seeming both tedious and tawdry. Where The Marriage-Go-Round is not a Junoesque strip-tease on Actress Newmar's part, it becomes an attempted script-save on Colbert's and Boyer's. Their manner of saving it is to throw away as much of it as possible. What they give instead is an illustrated lecture-on the art of timing, of diversionary tactics, of seeming to fondle dialogue while carefully holding...
Budd Suhulberg realized the significance of his subject in writing his The Disenchanted, a novel based on Schulberg's trip with Fitzgerald to the Dartmouth Winter Carnival to write a script for a pot-boiler movie comedy. Yet just as Schulburg found it difficult to give direction and intellectual plausbility to his novel, he has failed to produce a coherent and meaningful play...
Other minor errors also rile Gruber. "You don't shoot a man in the throat, and you don't kill him with a pitchfork or an ax," he argues. "We had a script here where the hero was killed with a pitchfork and I changed it to shooting. That very same week Jim [Gunsmoke] Arness killed two men with a pitchfork. That's not an honest western...
...Circle Theater (CBS, 10-11 p.m.)* The House of Flying Objects is based on the strange happenings in the house of James M. Herrmann of Seaford, L.I., where eight months ago lamps, bottles and furniture apparently flew through the air with the greatest of ease (TIME, March 17). The script leaves the solution to the mystery right up in the air along with all the household effects...