Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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American diplomats in Paris seldom expect to see anything good about the U.S. in Viet Nam on French TV screens these days; often it is not so much the script as it is the commentator's sarcastic tone of voice that plants the barb. In any case, the TV fare does not help the U.S. image in France-or anywhere else for that matter...
...Antony and Cleopatra ("Miss Cornell is a tall woman and likes to have tall actors around"). From there, it was roles in TV and a lead in his first film, Dark City. Today, Heston commands $500,000 a picture, plus 10% of the gross, gets control over cast and script. Says he, ruefully and rightfully: "I suppose I'm still not selective enough...
That, at least, was the Administration's script. Conveniently omitted was the fact that it was the President him self who had been largely responsible for paralyzing the negotiations for most of that time. And, as it turned out, the union's notoriously fractious membership flatly rejected the terms of the agreement so effusively hailed by Lyndon Johnson...
Robert Ardrey's script much too neatly points up the similarity between fanatic Mahdi and fanatic general, and invents two dramatic confrontations between them that never occurred. But such blatant departures from history are rare. Vividly directed by Basil Dearden, Khartoum evokes the spirit and likeness of a brave, baffling soldier...
Although many neurologists had thought that color perception and singing ability were exclusive functions of the dominant hemisphere, Coe has scored 24 out of 25 in a color test, and can sing familiar anthems, hymns and Home on the Range. While he cannot write script, he prints left-handedly. He can pick out the right answers to simple arithmetical problems. In one-handed manual tasks, Coe is more adept than most men. Long bed confinement delayed his relearning to use his right arm, but he is now improving in this...