Word: scripted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Only a Brief. CBS's The Verdict Is Yours (3:30 p.m., E.D.T.) has no script, and not even the producer knows what the verdict will be. Instead, each "trial" is fabricated in the head of the show's lawyer, Selig Silverman. Each principal is told the "truth" about his role in the case. The lawyers are not actors, but professional attorneys who like to get on the show for the fun of it. It is up to them to make their own cross-examinations, field the witnesses' replies as skillfully as they can. Presiding and ruling...
...fear he might "use the wrong muscles," and who took sadistic pleasure in driving tennis balls at Diana's face. Husband No. 3 was almost as big a lush as Diana, and together they rapidly drank up all the money she had made and inherited. According to the script, she wound up doing take-offs (including clothes) in a Manhattan dive, and one night she ran amuck and wound up in the alcoholic ward. That's where the "unholy ghost" (as Author Frank is known on Publisher's Row) caught up with her and invited...
...Gigi is dressed to kill, but if all the French finery impresses the customers, it also smothers the story. Worse still, the physical exuberance of the production flusters the pensive sensuality of Colette's mood like a poodle in a cage of lovebirds. But in the details, the script sticks surprisingly close to the book. Gigi (Caron) is a dear little French girl whose grand aunt and grandmother have given her a strict upbringing in the finest traditions of their family-which happens to be a family of expensive prostitutes. Gigi's mother is the black sheep...
...course, it's a competent script...
Stinson, who is directing the show as well as writing the script, will narrate...