Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reassuringly, "you people have a definite amount of charm. Let it come out.' The President leaned back in his chair, chuckled and clapped his hands together. Then the presidential image was plucked away for distribution to millions of living rooms. Said he: "Good evening, everybody" (departing from the script's "Good evening, my fellow Americans"), and the show...
...have the sense to follow its own nose into 3-D. They had to be led by a dog." And Bwana Devil-which may prove to be the most important motion picture produced in Hollywood since The Jazz Singer introduced sound in 1927-was indeed a dog. The script, a sort of veldt opera about how two lions interfered with the building of a railroad in Africa, was so bad that at the Los Angeles première last November, nobody noticed that the stereography was worse...
...There hasn't been much of this sort of newspaperman stuff around of late," said Variety last week, but now "it's a fresh script almost daily." From the sidelines, Variety was gleefully cheering the new outbreak of warfare among Syndicated Columnists Leonard Lyons, Walter Winchell and Ed Sullivan. In papers beyond Manhattan, the lines of battle were not always clear, since editors around the U.S. often cut out mysterious references to private feuds. But the columnists were not a bit discouraged...
...into the far turn, the Dancer began his move, slipping inside along the rail to pass one horse, then closing in fast on Dark Star. At the mile mark-with only three-sixteenths to go-Dark Star and Native Dancer were almost head & head, just like the Kentucky Derby script. This time, though, Dark Star dropped out of the running and left it to Jamie K. to measure the Dancer's heart...
...many parts, Szabo has done some hitches in the movies, but always (following the script) came out on the losing end of battles with smaller men, finally quit ("Who wants to get thrown around by little punks?"). Wrestling has its own hazards-Szabo has had his nose broken six times-but it pays him some $50,000 a year, and he plans to keep at it for a while. After that? "I'm the idol of all women from 45 up to 80," says Sandor, and a singing career is "much easier." "I think I'll be like...