Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Script Change. By this time, Hitler was parachuting spies into Britain, and the script changes from Waugh to something by Olsen and Johnson. One spy. half-Japanese, was captured with binoculars and a spare pair of shoes hung around his neck. Another dropped in Ireland wearing a beret and high boots, lost his invisible ink swimming the River Boyne. As part of his design to scare the British, Hitler ordered "pack assembles'' dropped at random over the countryside. They included radios, maps and instructions to imaginary secret agents. Unmanned parachutes were dropped to spread the notion that...
...against Climax for its production of The Trial of Captain Wirz, the Andersonville Jailer (TIME, July 8). Twentieth Century-Fox still seethed over Climax' play The Dark Wall, which the studio thinks resembled its forthcoming Three Faces of Eve. The situation is so touchy that CBS rejected a script about Actress Jeanne Eagels for fear of enraging Columbia, whose Jeanne Eagels, starring Kim Novak, is awaiting release...
Hollywood, turning its best scene-milking hand to this bittersweet trifle, called upon the services of Producer-Director Wilder. Squeezing the last drop of champagne from his vintage script of springtime in Paris, Co-Scripter Wilder achieves many effervescent effects. But his last-minute cascade of bubbles, belly laughs and bathos is overstretched and often repetitious...
...rehearsals began, a piano arrived from Kansas City; it was the one given to Truman in the White House by James C. Petrillo and his American Federation of Musicians. Truman decreed happily that it would have to appear in the opening shot. "Mr. President," said Director Tim Kiley, "the script calls for us to open in the reading room." Truman grinned. "Oh, they'll change that," he said. They...
...year-old star of the show absorbed 30-odd last-minute script changes, then sat calmly joshing with an Independence crony, Tom Evans, while the TV people fussed and stewed. On camera at last, he led the way through the library's long corridors, discoursed on its treasures and memories, exuded a candidate's charm, his speech colloquial and homely, his accent as broad as the Missouri River, his smile glowing and real. Excerpts: ¶ On how to recommend laws: "Well, sir, you write 'em down in a message, you try to think things...