Word: scripted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Naked Gun's script thrives on the same groaner puns and absurd hyperbole that distinguished Airplane! When the movie's villain, played with oily elegance by Ricardo Montalban, offers Nielsen a cigar he says, "Cuban?" "No," replies Nielsen, "I'm Dutch-Irish." Montalban's dignified demeanor is a perfect foil to Nielsen's hapless bumbling...
Despite the show's high-tech special effects, Fries said that "dealing with the human experience" is the most challenging aspect of writing a Star Trek script...
...script-writer for the TV series "Star Trek: The Next Generation," Fries last night told a group of about 30 people at a gathering sponsored by the Harvard-Radcliffe Science Fiction Association that his job often entails some difficult creative decision-making...
...Every time someone fires a phaser, it costs $3000," Fries said to the Lamont Forum audience. "Once as a joke, I put in the script: '1000 space monkeys attack the Enterprise with phasers.' I got a phone call very quickly about that...
...says his technique is guided by a gut feeling rather than an intellectualized plan. Regarding 1969, he says, "I just wrote the story. Some scenes survived every script. they just seemed right...