Word: scripted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Santa Claus. The subcommittee had other ideas. When Goldfine finally finished his laborious script-reading, the questions came furiously. Counsel Robert W. Lishman asked Goldfine if, as ordered, he had brought along the records pertaining to $776,879.16 in treasurer's and cashier's checks* purchased by various Goldfine-controlled companies since 1941-and still uncashed as of last...
McCrary put Goldfine through his paces on the prepared statement. While Goldfine read, McCrary "scored" the script, underlining with his red pencil the words that were to be "punched," i.e., emphasized; in the hearing Goldfine merely yelled every time he came to such a place. McCrary also noted that Goldfine's voice tended to crack every few minutes. At strategic intervals, therefore, McCrary wrote into the script the words: "Glass of water." (In the hearing room there were no glasses, only floppy paper cups.) Again, McCrary inserted stage directions telling Goldfine when it was time to produce props...
Wearily, Serling set to work on a new script. He had been through all this before. In 1956, for the U.S. Steel Hour, he had written another play that roughly paralleled the Till tragedy and watched disgustedly as it changed by sponsor's edict. His summary: "Every word of dialogue that might be remotely 'Southern' in context was deleted or altered. A geographical change was made to a New England town. When it was ultimately produced, its thesis had been diluted, and my characters had mounted a soapbox to shout something that had become too vague...
Face of Prejudice. In the current script, Town's locale was moved to "a small Southwestern town in the 1870s." Emmett Till became a romantic Mexican youth who loved the storekeeper's wife, but only "with his eyes." Throughout the 120-page script, network and sponsors (which include Allstate Insurance, American Gas & Electric, Bristol-Myers, Kimberly-Clark, Pillsbury Mills, R. J. Reynolds Tobacco) suggested changes. An earlier lynch victim was named Clemson; this was changed because South Carolina has an all-white college of that name. The ad agency for Allstate Insurance vetoed a suicide in the story...
...Young Lions. Irwin Shaw's bestseller about World War II, clarified by an intelligent script and two gifted actors, Marlon Brando and Montgomery Clift (TIME, April...