Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from the Bowery tattoo parlor which offers "personalized monograms" to the swank Sutton Place apartment building which prohibits "beggars, baby carriages, bicycles or foreign cars in the lobby." The freshness of Sylvester's approach stems from innate curiosity, a versatile talent (he has written six novels, one movie script, is collaborating on a musical), and a sharp ear for the irreverent crack and the offbeat anecdote: Some Sylvesterisms : ¶ On progressive schools: "Johnny, stop playing with Joseph...
...bosom begins to heave during his sermons, and Humphrey himself gets unseasonably hot under the ecclesiastical collar. However, by the time the audience has experienced the illicit delights of what amounts to a free trial package of sacrilege, the script "does a gopher," as Hollywood writers say. It runs for cash cover...
Travelogues are, as a rule, pretty dreary stuff, with an off-screen commentator reading a script copied out of the World Almanac. Only seldom does a travel short even try to show the "natives" as people rather than as models for picturesque costumes. But Songs of the Auvergne, made by Miles Morgan '50, not only tries but succeeds impressively...
Crippled and sweating, the Red Socks returned to their dressing room. Astonished, they saw on the door in white chalk: "Gormee is with you in spirit." As they entered the room, staring at them from the walls and floor, the white script said "Gormee sees your game!" "Think Upon Gormee!" Noisily, the players collapsed on the benches thinking that these signs were just like Tom Graham, the business manager...
...good script, moreover, has had good direction, and the credit goes to Actor Lancaster. In his first attempt to run a whole show, he demonstrates a refreshing preference for natural setting-many a western looks as if it was shot on the back lot of a drive-in barbecue-and a remarkably pretty wit. Furthermore, Lancaster directs himself with more sense for his own limits than most other directors have shown, and he gets an appealing, unaffected performance out of the boy who plays his son. But the best actor in the film, and no shame to his colleagues...