Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...group may decide to do a satire on the machine age (aired last week) or the fourth estate (the concept this week). The writers are then led back to their cages. Later, the various elements-a silly dance, a special skit, cameo spots-are entered into the growing script. By this time, those elements are so confusing that Head Writer Keyes keeps track of them on 3-by-4-ft. cards, divided into several columns. As the writing team assigned to the specific show begins to deliver its drafts, the bits and pieces are switched around on the chart until...
Apparently, yes. As the script takes shape, Wiles and Schlatter begin to toss out soft comedy lines and beef up others. Soon the final draft-having grown to 235 pages, or about three times as large as the customary script for a one-hour comedy show-is ready. The cast gathers around a table in the studio for a read-through. After two days of casual rehearsal, they head for the stage for two twelve-hour days of taping. The only audience present consists of staffers, office boys, secretaries, members of families. The laughter on the show is canned...
...party atmosphere that pervades the set, new ideas are constantly added as the show moves from printed script to video tape. Jokes and ideas for skits are solicited from the nonwriting staff and anyone else who happens by. The twelve-year-old daughter of a production consultant, for example, specializes in graffiti (her latest contribution: LASSIE KILLS CHICKENS). On taping days, the writers are everywhere, feeding lines on the set, in the halls, dressing rooms, offices and wardrobe department. Periodically, the cast members try out impromptu bits on one another, often walk before the camera and say the first thing...
...more than three centuries, one man had despotic power to decide what plays would or would not appear on the public stage in Britain. As the royal censor, the Lord Chamberlain could summarily order an offending word, line or scene stricken from a script, or he could ban a play altogether by refusing to license it for performance. Although blue-penciling has eased in recent years, English playwrights have persistently demanded total dramatic freedom, and last July Parliament abolished the Chamberlain's licensing authority. Two weeks ago, the U.S. folk-rock musical Hair became the first play publicly staged...
...they the only cinematic debris. For no good reason, The Charge of the Light Brigade includes a disconnected, listless affair between an officer (David Hemmings) and his best friend's wife (Vanessa Redgrave). Scenarist Charles Wood (How I Won the War) overloads the script with totally unsubtle pacifist propaganda. "It will be a sad day," intones Lord Raglan, Britain's supreme commander in Crimea, "when England has officers who know what they're doing . . . it smacks of murder...