Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...film offers an astonishingly thorough and accurate introduction to Joyce, for those who have been too busy or too intimidated to discover him. Everything you hear is Joyce's own language, and Joyce at his best, since the script writers have selected wisely from the book's 800 pages for their two hours of film time. No doubt many viewers will run to the book after witnessing this proof of Joyce's wise hilarity...
Members of some 125 antiwar groups -from the moderate Women Strike for Peace to the "New Left" Students for a Democratic Society and the "Maoist" Progressive Labor Party-distributed literature and sold buttons. "Draft beer, not boys," exclaimed one button in wavy script; "Peace with Beatlespower is Funlove for life," proclaimed a poster that owed more to Lennon than Lenin...
...writers' conference, for example, Cohn once bawled out his staff for creating an anachronism in an Arabian Nights fantasy. "It's all through this script, goddammit!" he complained. "You've got 'em all saying 'Yes, siree.' " The producer read the offending page on Cohn's desk. "But, Harry," he explained, "that's 'Yes, sire...
Thoroughly Modern Millie must be seen . . . to be believed. Its script is low camp; its direction, by George Hill, lacks not only credibility but competence; its editing is both ill timed and ill-executed (employing grisly cutting devices like zig-zags and eyeopeners); its acting, with a few not terribly noteworthy exceptions, reeks...
...legend, even for people who never read it, when its U.S. publication was sanctioned in 1933 by Judge John M. Woolsey's celebrated decision: "Whilst in many places the effect is emetic, nowhere does it tend to be an aphrodisiac." The judgment has become the consensus. Though the script omits none of the common obscenities and few of the scabrous episodes that made the book notorious, it had no trouble getting through customs and ran into very little civic opposition. Only 65 theater owners agreed to exhibit it, however, and as a precaution against censorship the initial...