Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...your Aug. 26 TV & Radio section, you reviewed with great cordiality Studio One's The Unmentionable Blues and quoted from what was obviously a superior script. However, there was no mention of the author, and it read as though [Actor] Elliott Nugent had made up the lines as he was going along. The author's name: Helen Cotton...
Just a Hunch. Since the Near East used cuneiform and the Greeks and Minoans a linear script, most scholars automatically assumed that there could be no connection between the two ways of writing. But Scholar Gordon, a Ph.D. in Semitic languages from the University of Pennsylvania, had a hunch there was. "When I started this research," he admits, "I was merely setting out to see whether my notion was correct. At first I was frustrated at every turn because I thought that Phoenician-or West Semitic-was the language root. But Phoenician only seemed to fit the puzzle in certain...
...With putty and plaster, collodion-created scars, false teeth, wigs, facial clamps, cotton stuffing and rubber dilaters, Actor Chaney would be somebody else - an art he found most expedient in the days when the studios made their daily castings at first glance and strictly according to script-dictated types...
...give the ordinary American girl a chance to have a big wedding on TV just like Grace Kelly and Queen Elizabeth." Nonetheless, for ten seasons, comedians, critics and the Roman Catholic Church have heaped scorn on the show's televised weddings. One objector paraphrased the commercial-mottled script: "Whomsoever God and Betty Crocker hath joined together . . ." Another said: "Bride and Groom is as embarrassing as watching your girl friend publicly eating peas off her knife." Bob Hope cracked: "I had a couple of friends who got married on the show, and after it was over they learned that their...
Johnston repudiates Guthrie's theory that the author, once finished with his script, should stay away from rehearsal in order to let the director add something better to the script and have his own way about making changes. Johnston advises authors to attend rehearsals because as all theatre productions are a compromise, the author should contribute his part...