Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...budding congressional campaign of 1954, many Republican candidates have tried to steer clear of the McCarthy issue. Last week onetime Representative Clifford Case, the Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate in New Jersey, changed the script: in a 1,250-word statement liberally distributed by his headquarters, he said bluntly that he would vote against continuing McCarthy as chairman, or even as a member of the Committee on Government Operations or any committee like...
Periodically, Ross and Adler sang and played their songs for Veteran Producer George Abbott ("one of the most frightening experiences we ever had"), and last fall, after three years of hearing their offerings, Abbott gave them the script for Pajama Game (from Richard Bissell's novel 7½ Cents})-and a month in which to write the first four songs. The big audition came on Christmas Eve, when they performed the songs for a battery of theatrical big guns. "We were scared to death," says Adler. "It was a lousy Christmas Eve." But next day they were told...
...echoes both of Damon Runyon and all the situation comedies from I Love Lucy to The Life of Riley. Starring Newcomer Paul Gilbert as a middleweight boxing champion who has been lured into culture through a business connection with a Harvard man (Claude Stroud), the opening script (written by Hollywood's Charles Isaacs and Jack Elinson) took a fresh and inventive look at a great many stock situations. Culture-bound Gilbert turns out to be a better than adequate painter with an inclination to color bananas blue; he suffers amusingly through a stint at the opera (someone told...
Fame carried her to Hollywood in 1919, and here the sober script calls a thoroughly slap-happy recess to watch a flag-waving Helen, as the star of the film Deliverance (supposedly based on her life story), lead the charge of a revolutionary rabble across something that looks suspiciously like Concord Bridge...
...second grade, Oppenheimer, 41, has one of the toughest jobs in television. As producer of Lucy, he must keep track of 13 separate Lucy shows at all times. Last week, for instance, he discussed the show to be shot nine weeks from now, edited the finished script for the show eight weeks away. The same day, he had to check on costumes and casts for episodes three and four weeks in the future, while taking care of production details for last week's 100th show (which will be telecast Oct. 4). After that was filmed, he had to supervise...