Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Racing through the script are Jack Palance as Simon, a power-mad, eye-rolling (but strictly second-rate) magician who tries to discredit the growing body of Christians with rabble-rousing and tricks; Paul Newman as Basil, a pagan silversmith who designs a frame for the cup; Virginia Mayo, the sorcerer's apprentice, who divides her time between dressing up the boss's act and running up Basil's metabolism; and Pier Angeli, a wistful, loving Christian who finally wins Basil for herself...
Right down the line in the production good things are cancelled out by bad. Hildegarde Neff, a Marlene Dietrich with a bigger frame and a smaller voice, was the only cast member who managed to make the script worth her while. But though there should be few complaints with Miss Neff, Don Ameche plays opposite her, as an American who turns her head and ideology. There are somewhere, I am sure, people who enjoy Mr. Ameche and his teeth. They will be gratified to see that he approaches a song with the same enthusiasm with which be extolled coffee...
...feather, he was able to produce an almost endless variety. Some of his works resemble children's squiggles, others the splotched fantasies of the mad. Still others are made entirely of dots, or squares, or crosshatchings, or Oriental arabesques. Some of his pictures are composed simply of illegible script-foreshadowing Cartoonist Saul Steinberg. He illustrated Candide with raggedy stick figures of the sort Giacometti and George Grosz were later to employ, and created telling juxtapositions (e.g., a bird engraved on a cat's forehead) that inspired the surrealists. He drew and painted on everything, from glass to burlap...
...events did not follow the Red script. President Eisenhower and Secretary of State Dulles stressed patience and restraint in dealing with the prisoner issue. Britain took the strongly indignant line. The U.N. acted more decisively than it had on any issue since the beginning of the Korean...
...actress so typed for guppylike roles as Dorothy McGuire, suggested in advance that it might be a bad idea to revive the 15-year-old Philadelphia Story for TV. But on CBS's Best of Broadway, Actress McGuire made an excellent Tracy Lord, tawny and yare, as the script said she should be. To help her through the comic but caustic dilemma of casting off a new fiance (Dick Foran) and remarrying the one and only (John Payne), she had an engaging cast...