Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cooney made known his quandary, he had no trouble hitting Page One. Last week, over-cutely swathed as The Complex Mummy Complex, Dr. Cooney's story got into TV as the Armstrong Theater's first comic dramatization-from-life. Stretched far too thin in an hourlong script, the joke was not nearly so funny as it must have seemed on paper or in real life. But it did make the 1,600-year-old hero the most popular mummy in Brooklyn. As callers swarmed on him, Dr. Cooney explained: "We still...
...talent, the season has little to show so far. The only major new star is a personable retread named Jack Paar (TIME, Oct. 28), the gentlemanly comic who rescued NBC's Tonight from the junk heap. Studio One produced The Deaf Heart (TIME. Nov. 4), a striking first script by a highly promising 29-year-old playwright named Mayo Simon, but nobody seems to know whether he can ride or shoot. Of the new situation comedies, only Leave It to Beaver (see below) has taken fire. Among minor new wrinkles: ABC's All-Star Golf (TIME...
...profitable peeping tome (300,000 hardbound, 3,000,000 paperback copies sold) about low jinks in old New Hampshire. The novel's small-town citizens were guilty of murder, suicide and such richly varied venery as nude swimming, bundling in convertibles, bastard-getting and incestuous rape. The film script tidies up a few of these sensations, softens a calculated abortion to an involuntary miscarriage, and lets a couple of villains become last-reel good guys. But there is still too much meaningless blood and lust in Peyton Place. The film collapses, during one of the least convincing murder trials...
...were appalled. She stole scene after scene with the cunning of a crow, and when she was charged with the larceny, she only blinked her big round eyes and vowed that it was only "natural exuberance." One day an actor decided to get even. At a point in the script where he was supposed to slap her lightly, "he slapped me so hard it almost knocked me down." But it was no use. "I cried real tears of pain and looked so genuinely hurt and startled that the audience stood and cheered." Says Director Josef von Baky...
...took one startled look and got on the phone to Director Brooks. "I just saw Grushenka." "O.K., O.K.," said Brooks. "You just saw Grushenka. Everybody just saw Grushenka. But can she act?" A quick look at Gervaise settled that. Brooks arranged a lunch at MGM. They gave her the script to read. "I could hardly breathe," Maria recalls; but the next day she had breath enough to harangue Brooks and Brynner "like a Prussian drill sergeant" about why she should have the part and Carroll Baker should...