Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unnamed mortal disease that she has. She behaves pretty much like a willful child playing hooky from the sanatorium. As her erotic partner, Marcello Mastroianni displays all the zest of a man summoned up for tax evasion. He appears to be lipreading his English, although the script seems to find the language just about as alien as Mastroianni does. The five scriptwriters who supposedly worked on the film must have spent enough time at the water-cooler to flood a camel. The only smidgin of plot is that Dunaway makes a late abortive attempt at suicide, something the film successfully...
Speer decided on the book when he was captured by the Allies. In Spandau, he wrote secretly in tight script on pieces of cardboard, tobacco paper, and even toilet tissue. A friendly jailer smuggled 1,400 pages of remembrances out for him. "I had all day to think in the garden," he recalls. "Then I could write every night until my hand just hurt too much." At Castle Wolfsbrunnenweg today, 36 filing cabinets hold paper scraps, letters, old files and 125 architect's sketches made by Hitler for the grand plan of Berlin...
...badinage of the seduction scenes and the script as a whole will sound uncommonly witty, tart and adult to American audiences, particularly now that the networks are under attack for "excessive permissiveness" from John Pastore, chairman of the Senate Communications Subcommittee. No canned laughter is added to the sound track. There is one deferential addition for the American viewers, though: a brief epilogue and tidy ending, showing the Caine and Calder-Marshall courtship heading for consummation, probably in wedlock. Another hopeful outcome is that Play wright Owen is now drafting a sequel: Female of the Species, starring Elizabeth Taylor...
...could Helen Hayes say no? So she will be back on Broadway Oct. 18, playing the "small but juicy" part of Mrs. Grant in the revival of the 1928 comedy The Front Page. Miss Hayes said that her husband, Charles MacArthur (who collaborated with Ben Hecht on the script), created Mrs. Grant as an uncomplimentary portrait of her mother during their courtship in 1928. "There's a line in the play 'I have three tickets to New York for me, my girl and her goddam ma,' " she recalled. "That was my Charley speaking from his heart...
...Illustrated Man tells of a gentler encounter, when two Episcopal missionaries on Mars discover spheres of blue fire that are intelligent beings-free spirits, as it turns out, long liberated from the pains, and the sins, of the body. And in a recent, surprisingly touching Star Trek TV script, the crew of the spaceship Enterprise stumble upon the Greek God Apollo on a distant planet, only to tell him that they can no longer worship him, as they did when he and his race of supermen lived on earth...