Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...action took place in the placid reaches of Washington state's Puget Sound country, but the passion-to-poison script read more like one of Georges Simenon's Parisian chillers...
Carter DeHaven, the film's producer, said yesterday that script changes caused the reduction of the Harvard sequence one quarter of the film to two minutes, which were shot last week. In the minute spot, James Coburn and Camilla Sparv, stars of the film, are shown walking down the steps of Widener. No Harvard or Radcliffe students were photographed...
...kidnaping. And when a French magistrate finally played a tape recording reputed to carry the incriminating testimony of Paris Gangster Georges Figon (a participant in the plot who "committed suicide" just before French cops burst through his doorway), all that was heard was a trite cops-and-robbers script for a movie that Figon was working...
Charity throws the stalest book in the house at the house, the story of a doxy with a heart of gold, a taxi dancer who always falls for men who are either too sly or too shy to do her any good. In his weakest script to date, Neil Simon (Barefoot in the Park, The Odd Couple) seems to have heard rather than written the gags, and the dialogue is stippled with vulgarities, presumably aimed at the expense account trade...
...Colorado, things didn't go by the script. For one thing, the anonymous writer had made an incredible number of errors. Professor Howard Higman, he wrote, was now carrying on the teach-ins. But, replied Professor Higman, he had been asked to speak at both teach-ins and had refused; in fact, he favored Johnson's Vietnam policy. One of the four professors charged with "friendship" with the two ex-Communists had never met them; another was acquainted with them professionally. Only one considered himself a "close friend" of the two men, both respected, tenured faculty members. Professor Richard Wilson...