Word: scripted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...television series you do a premise. You do one pilot, one script, you sign a contract and what it basically says is that you will do the work that we send you and you're not going to be a pain in the ass about it," Howard says. "You don't get a vote...
...four-year harmony course in six months. Morricone remembers that his professor, wary of wasting such a potential talent, told him sternly that "if I did not enroll in the composition course, I was an assassin." He also taught his student that "one of the values of a music script is the pain that produces...
...relief. It was The Philadelphia Story (Harvard Film Archive), the charming, wise, funny classic that gives the lie to W.C. Fields' famous epitaph. One look at the cast--Katherine Hepburn, Cary Grant, and Jimmy Stewart--just about says it all; but when you figure in the top-notch script and director George Cukor's subtle direction, you have one of Hollywood's few truly timeless jobs...
Davenport wrote the lyrics and music for the 13 songs in the show as well as the script, although she has had no formal training in music other than piano lessons. The only time she performed in a Harvard play was during freshmanyear...
...only major problem lies in the script itself. The abrupt, anticlimactic denouement fails to resolve all the political and moral issues it raises. But as entertainment, Pass the Butler is more than satisfying. Fans awaiting the next Python flick should not pass this Butler and miss the antics of these would-be Pythonites...