Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nickerson was making a hero's fight on behalf of the Army missile program ("I was trying anonymously to influence certain key people") against the Air Force's assigned task of operating all the null 1,500-mile missiles, and was thereby (like Billy Mitchell, said the script) risking his career in obedience to higher duty...
...gossip, plus a sidedish of questions and answers about television. Three months ago he also blossomed out as a regular morning-after TV critic for New York's Daily Mirror (which runs his previews too). Thus in the case of a single TV show, he sometimes reads the script, attends the dress rehearsal, writes an advance report-and then reviews the finished product...
...demands-and gets from Dame Sybil and Sir Laurence-high acting to fetch high comedy. From Marilyn it gets a spasmodic effort to conquer the awesome heights. Her most persuasive line is just plain "Gosh!"-but it is never clear whether she is overwhelmed by the dictates of the script or the awesome dramatic company she is keeping. Parading and posing with an even more voluptuous silhouette than most 1911 showgirls had, Marilyn is alternately spirited and lethargic. Especially in her tussling with Olivier, she seems more directed by him than acting with him-as if by wiggling...
Tomtomfoolery. From Horatio Alger, Satirist West moved on to Hollywood, where he had worked as a script writer. Apart from the usual film-colony grotesques, The Day of the Locust parades witless cowboys, actors, emotional cripples, dwarfs and a memorably mindless, chrome-pated sexpot. It ends in madness and violence, like the others-a mob at a Hollywood premiere tramples an artist, who is carried offstage screaming...
...final script has been written, although John P. Marquand '15, the noted author, has agreed to undertake the assignment, and Ormonde deKey, Jr. '45 has dug up all relevant old film material. Until then, Suchmann's outline is enough. It emphasizes not only the past history of the University and its rise to greatness, but also the present and, obliquely, the future...