Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Western modernity in one short haul, Ataturk converted Turkey into a facsimile of a parliamentary republic, fought an unending battle to break the influence of the Moslem clergy. Under his tireless prodding, Turks found themselves obeying not Islamic law but the Swiss Civil Code, writing not in Arabic script but a new Romanized alphabet, wearing not the fez but a strange Western headgear the name of which, Ataturk felt obliged to explain...
...romantic and starry night like this, it's hard to keep your mind on your business," said Steve Allen, sticking to the script as he peered into the Havana sky last week. The sky was overcast and black, and a chilly wind sent wavelets across the swimming pool at the Havana Riviera Hotel, where NBC was beaming its first major live production over the horizon from Cuba...
...gleaming new hotel. The hotel surrendered eagerly, put up $25,000 of the show's $40,000 extra costs, yielded its bellhops as extras, shut off its paging system and shooed its guests away from the pool to ensure undisturbed rehearsals. "Is there any hotel plug in this script?" somebody asked at the final production conference. Cracked Allen: "Is there any script in this hotel plug...
...catch its hackle-raising horrors, Twentieth Century searched around Europe last spring, out of a ten-mile tangle of celluloid salvaged 2,400 evocative feet, garnished it with an equally evocative script by Emmet John Hughes, author of Report from Spain (and now chief of TIME-LIFE'S foreign correspondents). There were some coruscant scenes: crying, cursing Madrileños "running faster, faster along the very edge of the abyss," truncheon-wielding cops beating them back; women and children being evacuated under heavy air bombardment, their life's possessions tied in burlap on their backs, or black coffins...
...nuances. Delicacy is certainly one of his fortes; understanding of understatement and detail are others. His blocking turns a two-faced stage into an advantage, and, less technically, his bits of madness and sadness are woven into the actors and action as pleasantly as Capote wove them into the script...