Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Winging & Plinking. That led to Any Wednesday, which had a tryout so calamitous that before the play opened it went through one leading man (Michael Rennie), five directors and 13 endings-the 13th on opening night. The script was so unpromising that it took five coproducers to cajole in the $100,000 nut. As it turned out, Any Wednesday came in on rubber heels-a Broadway term describing a sleeper smash that confounds the handicappers...
...breaking up with her lover of six years, Actor Gerald O'Loughlin, and falling in love with a prominent (and married) star. Second, she "was sick of Any Wednesday before it even opened." One of the stunts she had learned from Robards was to jigger with a script during a run. In Any Wednesday, she improvised to an indulgent and irresponsible extreme...
...past three weeks, she has toiled for as long as 16 hours a day, seven days a week, on Daphne in Cottage D, a Broadway script by a never-produced playwright, Stephen Levi, 26, and she has been waiting for two years to do it. To bring it in, Sandy's own business manager has had to raise half the backing, most of it her money. The director, stage manager and co-star are all colleagues from former productions, and Sandy is more in charge (though less egocentric) than in any production since her third-grade Cinderella...
...next act will come when time runs out on the current contracts next week. Following the script, Reuther will go before TV cameras to announce his "target company"-the one he will personally meet at the bargaining table to pound out a pattern for the rest of the industry. The probable choice is G.M., which has not had the dubious distinction since 1945. As for the distance G.M. might have to go, the U.A.W.'s brimful $67 million strike fund can last for nine weeks...
...wheels a shiny red convertible around like a hell driver. His partner, mooning around Sue Lyon's earthy smile, is a love-struck leftover from turn-of-the-century melodrama, yet speaks the language of the contemporary soldier. Like the cars its heroes steal and riotously wreck, the script starts strong but plots its own collision course, and eventually piles up in a harmless heap of miscellaneous parts that no longer mesh. The viewer, who begins by sympathizing with the Flim Flam Man, ends film-flammed as another one of his victims...