Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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RIAS broadcast a 15 minute profile entitled "Chemist, Educator, Statesman." The script eagerly pointed out that Conant was not coming to Germany cold, but had been here for three quarters of a year in 1925, studying organic chemistry...
...bartender: "I can write stuff as good as that." The next day he bought a second-hand book entitled The Television Program. He read it on his way to Toronto, where he was working as a reporter on the Globe and Mail. Then he wrote a 30-minute TV script which was promptly bought by Armstrong Circle Theater. Last week another Wilber play, The Fire Below and the Devil Above, appeared on Kraft Television Theater. It was the 18th TV drama he has sold in the past eleven months...
...finish it. Yet almost everything he writes for TV is snapped up by eager producers. It takes him as little as seven hours to do a 30-minute show, and he can turn out an hour-long drama in three days. The long est he has worked on a script has been two weeks, and Wilber thinks it is significant that it is one of the few still unsold...
...deal of weight in Hollywood. Though the Daphne du Maurier novel was hardly serious reading, its climax did probe the ethics of a murderer and allow his crime to go unpunished. When his clemency disturbed the Johnson Otlice, producers of the film version merely omitted the murder from their script. This compromise left My Cousin Rachel moral, meager, and pointless...
...with failure or timidity, and although he suffers at his son-in-law's death, one feels that he considers it a cheap price for the ultimate gain. This is a difficult part to play. Some actors might make Ridgeway a bare, two-dimensional character, since Terrence Rattigan's script alone does not delineate him sufficiently. But Richardson, by his voice inflection, doodling at his desk, and various other mannerisms fills out the role...