Word: scripted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CALLING himself S. P. Eagle and operating some-what nefariously out of a yacht anchored several miles off the French Riviera, producer Sam Spiegel decided to film The African Queen with a script by James Agee and direction by John Huston. Legend has it that Spiegel signed the two by assuring each that the other was committed to the project, then obtaining bank financing by claiming that both were signed. Everyone fell for the bait and Spiegel made the deal. Regardless of the percentage of actual fact in this story, Hollywood attributes to Spiegel a pretty fair job of wheeler...
...ACTOR (ABC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Sir Alec Guinness heads a cast of British theatrical performers in this ABC News study of the acting profession. Critic Kenneth Tynan wrote the script for the show...
That is the script's main-and almost only-joke. As the story's central character, Actor Segal shows flashes of a comic talent hitherto unexplored by Hollywood. But what picture there is for stealing is burgled by Wiseman with his portrayal of a stereotypical literateur. As lofty as Edmund Wilson, he pronounces Jehovah-like judgments on literature and humanity, while for his livelihood, he caters to audiences of culture-ridden housewives who beg, "Please, my Debbie wanted me to ask you about Philip Roth...
...Impossible Dream begin again according to script as the Red Sox opened the spring season with a dismal 7-3 loss to the Chicago White Sox yesterday...
...handful of shameless titters from the audience ("Clint, honey, what was the idea of that crystal ball?" "Guffaw, guffaw!"), but this year's were content with less. I saw them shoveling it in at a lunch for Angela Lansbury last week, telling someone they'd been sitting on the script for nearly a year. It shows...