Word: scripting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...staff, but it's too late to change now." Once a month he goes on a statewide radio-TV hookup to report on the $100 million-a-year public business that he runs. Handsome and easy-mannered, with . a personality made for TV, he refuses to use a script. He chats about a variety of governmental subjects, reads and answers some of his mail over the air and, to the amazement of the station crew, manages to wind up each impromptu broadcast on the second...
Whenever I throw a line out of the script, it pops right back in again the next week...
...President's temporary office in the Gettysburg post office. It was the first time the President and his staff officer in charge of politics had conferred since Sept. 10, two weeks before the heart attack. After 45 minutes, a smiling Leonard Hall emerged, and happily threw away the script he had so carefully prepared...
...Producer-Director John Huston announced plans to film Jean Anouilh's The Lark, using a new English translation of the original script rather than the adaptation by Christopher Fry which played in England or Lillian Hellman's adaptation now playing on Broadway. Huston picked French Star Suzanne Flon (Moulin Rouge) for the Joan of Arc role, now played on Broadway by Julie Harris...
...never said that he wanted the nomination. But he knew he could not be a reluctant draftee a second time. Even though Stevenson was miles ahead of any other Democratic candidate, the script for 1956 called for an early start toward formal campaigning -most of which could be directed against the Republicans rather than against his hopeful Democratic rivals...