Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...breeze what others must plod to accomplish is a never-say-die rationality, a formidable ability to put his life in order and his work in form. He can divide his brain into three or four separate task forces, attack three or four different objectives?prepare a script, study a score, work out a melody, amuse a child?all at the same time. His talent for patterns has made him a passionate crossword puzzler and anagrammarian (these days, though, he feels guilty about being caught wasting time, and hides crossword puzzles inside scores or books...
...like a Soviet with sex appeal, plays a MIG-wig in the Red air force who flies to the West in protest over a missed promotion. Bob Hope, a major in the U.S. Air Force, is assigned the "sensitive" task of inducing her to "embrace democracy." After that, the script-mostly by Ben Hecht, though he has wisely refused to acknowledge it (TIME, Oct. 15)-degenerates noisily into a lot of Hechtic foolishness. For a couple of reels the leading comedian plays it, riot for goofaws, but for the quiet snickers he is really better at getting...
...extra regulation fee before the too late box of the general postoffice of human life [feeling] a twinge of sciatica in my left glutear muscle ..." The producers may also have trouble with some of the animal actors (including an egg-laying rooster) called for in Joyce's script. Sample stage direction: The bulldog growls, his scruff standing, a gobbet of pig's knuckle between his molars through which rabid scums pit tie dribbles. ··· More than 1,000 Social Registerites and hangers-on clanked, rustled and jangled into Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel to feel...
...Martyrdom of Roy Wilson suffers from a lack of discipline and craftsmanship which is only redeemed by talented direction, acting, and technics. If not original in concept, it is at least original in its attempt to force normal speech patterns and language into a poetic form. The script occasionally rises to real eloquence, but more often it is tawdry and indulges in the most egregious bad taste. Mr. Hargrove's use of profanity is completely gratuitous, like a small boy swearing before his parents to see how they will react...
...Wallach, as Vacarro--explore the comic sides of their characters. His direction is brilliant and the three performers, who give unanimously superb performances, prove once and for all that Kazan's rather nervous brand of naturalistic acting is quite suitable for comedy. The director's interpretation unquestionably improves the script, even though it makes something new out of Williams' tawdry story...