Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Good copy, however, does not always make good drama. O. Henry's lack of character delineation forces an actor to use his script as a bare guide. In three of Full House's five stories, the casts are able to fill in O. Henry's deficiencies; in the other two, the sweet is sugery, the humor forced, and the bitter melodramatic...
Just before 6:30 Nixon sat down behind a desk in an NBC television studio in Hollywood, a sheaf of papers at his elbow. He had no written script, and the television crews were so uncertain of his plans that they warmed up two extra cameras in case he should walk out of range of the primary camera. Nixon's wife Pat sat in an armchair a few feet from the desk. When the announcer cued Nixon to start talking, not even Pat knew precisely what Nixon was going...
...film of speed and realistic emotion. Most of the time, the man and boy are escaping through tortuous fields and swamps, continuously avoided shepherds, bicyclers, and campers. The boy, Jon Whitely, fortunately saves this scene from being exasperating and boring. He doesn't say much; three-quarters of his script is "I'm hungry." His expressive face and unaffected actions, furthermore, place him high among adolescent talent...
About this time each year the Student Council and the Administration participate in a little University Hall ritual. The script hardly ever changes: the Council asks for a liberalization of parietal rules and the Administration refuses to grant it. Last year, however, the Council adlibbed. Tacked on the usual list of arguments was a line about Yale moving back its Saturday night curfew to eleven o'clock...
...Administration has always recognized the need for places to take dates after curfew. Its refusals to change that curfew have seemed a resistance to change more than anything else. Now that Yale has successfully tried the experiment for them, it is time for the Administration to re-examine its script and make the changes the Council requested last year...