Word: scripted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bothered us. It aggravated the situation a little bit, but we kept out poise," Wyche said. "The ball club proved one thing, that when things don't go by the script, we can do things a little differently...
BABY M (ABC) With an intelligent script, restrained direction and riveting performances by JoBeth Williams and John Shea, this docudrama about surrogate mother Mary Beth Whitehead became a stark thirtysomething nightmare...
...SERVICE (HBO) An old-school TV anchorman (Paul Dooley) finds himself teamed with a shallow New Wave co-host (Griffin Dunne). Howard Korder's script for this made-for-cable movie neatly skewered television, but also located the tragedy beneath the tackiness...
Bogosian wrote and played this role last year off-Broadway, and when he sticks to the old script, he brings the thing to life onscreen. So, at first, does director Oliver Stone. He makes a voice in the dark seem a perfect subject for motion pictures. The camera prowls with a purpose; the movie gleams like Formica lighted by witchcraft...
Network executives deny any cause-and-effect relationship between the staff cutbacks and greater permissiveness. True, standards-and-practices people no longer read every script or attend every taping. But shows are still vetted by program executives, who alert the censors to potential problems. "We changed the mechanism, but we did not change the standards," says Alan Gerson, who heads the remnants of NBC's standards division. Indeed, most of this fall's bolder shows were written and reviewed before most of the recent cutbacks...