Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...your recent article as "basically modest," gives the impression that the original radio Dragnet sprang full-blown, like Minerva, from his forehead. Just for the record: the radio audition which sold the original series was produced by William P. Rousseau and directed by Carl Gruener ... I wrote the script . . . You quote Webb as asking of those who ... are no longer with him: "You just show me their track records." He will be happy to learn that at present I am working toward a Ph.D. at Columbia. I consider it to be something of a promotion...
...still action. The fact that the action goes nowhere, is never really resolved, and that the only discernable moral of the film is that continuity, clear story line and pointed action are not indispensable--these do not obstruct one's enjoyment of the picture. The only necessities are wonderful script, imaginative director and the kind of super-talented cast that is in Beat the Devil...
...What's Your Name?). A rich, ripe, full-bodied soap opera, Kimi has been running on Japanese radio for almost two years, has won more than 18 million devoted listeners, and is about to have three monuments erected to its memory at localities prominently mentioned in the script...
When, as in The Black Rose, one Yellow Horde meets another, the one with some perceptible religion will triumph after horrible and chastening suffering. In the forthcoming Genghis Khan, however, the script writers are cast adrift without a hint as to American preference, none of the combatants being particularly religious and all being equally crafty and barbaric. Until the Horde tangles with Europeans near the end, there should be some terrific battles, with the victory to the strong rather than the popular...
Breen assaulted his audience with sex, violence, and sounds of foghorns and lapping water. He loaded the script with similes (sample: as difficult as "sandpapering an oyster"). But as the first program began, he stood in a control booth frantically waving at Webb to underplay. The show was an instant success, and for the first time Webb knew the delights of fan mail. Pat Novak ran for 26 stirring weeks. Then Breen simultaneously quarreled with the station management and got a Hollywood offer. He quit. An hour later, Webb quit, loaded his jazz records and clothes into his 1941 Buick...