Word: scripted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Takata. For last week's program on "What Does Orchestration Mean?" Bernstein arrived at Carnegie Hall at 5:45 a.m. with his finished script to rehearse until the performance started at noon. During the concert, bouncy, boyish-looking Lecturer Bernstein roamed the stage with a microphone stuck in his jacket, sometimes sat down at the piano to dash off a musical example. Only occasionally did he indulge in cuteness, as when he spoke of "Grandfather Bassoon" and "Little Sister Piccolo," or explained that orchestration is like "putting clothes on notes...
...radio stars to its roster, often by hiring other agents, with their list of clients, or absorbing their agencies. On movie lots, the M.C.A. agent became so powerful that he decided what stars would play in what movies, and for how much, along with who would write the script and direct it. M.C.A. tax men found new ways for stars to save on taxes, notably by getting a percentage of a movie instead of a big salary, thus spreading income over many years...
Just Helpers. Much of M.C.A.'s power is due to its breadth: its talent covers so many fields that it can offer a complete package for a movie or TV show: star, script, and sometimes even financing. M.C.A. makes much of being simply a service organization, brags of the number of executives it has servicing clients, like a college with a low teacher-student ratio. Its executives are paid on an incentive plan; senior executives get a flat $100 a week, plus a bonus-often huge-based on M.C.A.'s performance that year. Founder Stein still owns...
...play, to which Irwin Shaw's script is reasonably loyal, is flagrantly Freudian, and it is to Hollywood's credit that the extremities of the Elms have not been pruned. O'Neill set out to write a Yankee Oedipus Rex, but what came out might more appropriately have been titled Sex Rex. The antagonists of the drama are a father (Burl Ives) and a son (Anthony Perkins), and the subject of their struggle, as in the myths of heroic succession on which the drama is modeled, is the land (a New England farm) and the woman (Sophia...
...enchantress who has come full Circe and now finds herself with nothing to her name but a title, Marquise Maria de Crevecoeur (Lady Heartbreak). She thinks he's rich, he thinks she's rich, and it all makes a pleasant little comedy of errors until suddenly the script makes an error that is not funny in the least. It introduces an American millionaire (Arthur O'Connell) who does almost nothing for the next hour but spin the wheel of a 155-ft. yacht that used to belong to Kaiser Wilhelm II, goggle at Marlene...