Word: scriptful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stood to reason that a 195-lb. amateur wrestler would have little chance against a 280-lb. bruiser with twelve years in the pro wrestling game. But that was not how the script read when Dr. Sam Sheppard made his debut against Wild Bill Scholl in a charity match in Waverly, Ohio. Seven minutes into the match Dr. Sam coolly jammed two fingers into Wild Bill's mouth and expertly pressed the mandibular nerve, which lies in the tender area under the tongue. Scholl instantly went limp with agony. Fall and match to Sheppard. "Only new thing...
...admire his extraordinarily productive career, the titles which separate one production from the next are as arbitrary as the covers which divide Pierre from Moby Dick. Mayer is always visible beyond the veil of his work. He is the farthest cry from the school of directors who, bowing before script and cast, let a show take its own course. No matter how good the acting, or how arresting the costumes or set, Mayer's plays remain his private possessions. NO one steals the show from...
Mayer had been directing for years before he began writing seriously for the state. Anyone who has ever seen one of his rehersals knows the perfection of his control of the theater from light board to script girl; his exultation in his own unchallenged command of the mannerisms of theater people. His energy, now revealed as anger, as self-pity, as melodrama, never flags: any needle in any vein to keep the show alive. He is the supreme impresario, diverting his own eyes and the world's from himself to his creations. If he could put King Kong on stage...
...WILD BUNCH. Under Sam Peckinpah's direction, this film emerges as a huge and beautifully composed canvas of violence in the waning West. The script may be a campfire yarn, but the final shoot-out is one of the most raucous, violent and magnificent gun battles ever put on film...
...Ford, who had become a poker-playing buddy. "I had been friendly with Ford for ten years," recalls Wayne, "and I wanted to get outa these quickie westerns, but I was damned if I was gonna climb on a friend to do it. He came to me with the script of Stagecoach and said, 'Who the hell can play the Ringo Kid?' " It was a part that called for a strong, inarticulate frontiersman vengefully seeking his father's killers. "I said there's only one guy: Lloyd Nolan, and Ford said, 'Oh, Jesus, can't you play...