Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prayer wheel," says the piece, "the moviemaker imagines the medium an ideal outlet for free-floating artiness or supererogatory libidinousness. There was in fact at least one instance in which a director became so enamored of his leading lady that he wrote a nude love scene into the script and then played the male lead himself: ars gratia concupiscentis...
Died. George Middleton, 87, playwright and one of the craft's shrewder business guardians; of pneumonia; in Washington, D.C. Although several of his 29 works (Polly with a Past, Adam and Eva) became Broadway successes between 1902 and 1938, Middleton's most enduring script-written while he was Dramatists' Guild president from 1927 to 1929-is entitled the Minimum Basic Agreement, which still governs the theater's royalty system...
...fans of the Road cycle know, gags took precedence over plot, locale and plausibility. Lamour would pop up in snowy Alaska during the Klondike gold rush wearing a sarong. The main goal of Hope and Crosby seemed to be to step on each other's lines, and the script was a dead letter. Once, when the writer happened onto the set, Hope called: "If you hear any of your own dialogue, yell bingo." A typical exchange, from Road to Utopia -Lamour: "You're facetious." Hope: "Keep politics out of this." Yet by 1962, when the great chase...
...devoted so much of his life to drinking up his talent, Dylan Thomas had a remarkably methodical approach to that talent when he was putting it to work. In his tight, clear script he filled notebook after notebook with the history of his poems-when the idea was first set down, how long he sat on it, how he cleaned up the various versions, what he chose to publish and what he left out. Such matters may seem too arcane for all except literary note-pickers, but for those who remember Thomas as a presence and his Collected Poems...
Actor-Writers Cook and Moore, who once were half of the wily foursome in Beyond the Fringe, have failed to grasp the basic difference between a four-minute skit and a 107-minute movie. What is worse, their script is padded with imbecile yock lines ("I love Lucifer," or in a conversation about God "But he is English isn't he?"). As a result, the film plays Faust and loose with a grand old theme...