Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...usual pattern of filmed shows to try a live hour-long Spectacular, Springtime, U.S.A. It is a Broadway truism that Helen Hayes is so gifted that she could even make the reading of the Manhattan phone book an exciting experience. ABC confounded Broadway and Helen by handing her a script as heavy as the phone book and twice as dull...
...flag-waving salute to America past and present. Springtime was also bedeviled by flubs, as when the actor playing George Washington proudly announced the surrender of "Cromwell'' at Yorktown. For music lovers willing to ignore the script, there was some reward in the singing of Patrice Munsel and Rise Stevens and in Paul Whiteman's conducting of Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue...
Bennie had almost finished typing the script. "As soon as you're finished, dear, we're going...
Silverstein mentioned the script. "Has anyone talked to you about a subject yet?" Beer answered, yes, he had talked to Finley, who was going to give the cue to him. Silverstein looked at his script. "I see there's a line written in for you--it's the first time I've seen...
...Weld, Silverstein showed Lewis the way he planned to do the tutorial scene. Lewis said he liked it. A few minutes later, just after 5 p.m., one girl said, "No more problems. We're shut for the night." Naturally, she was joking. Numerous script revisions still had to be made, and then the corrected versions had to be mimeographed. Also, the directors and producers still had to watch the Pudding show rehearsal at 5:30 and the Glee Club at 6:50. But both of these were relatively relaxing for all concerned. Their only purpose was to give the Omnibus...