Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cliffies) write offers to come over and read aloud to us your illegible remarks--we can (officially) read anything, and we may be married. Write on both sides of the page--single-blue-book finals look like less work to grade, and win points. This chic, shaded calligraphic script so many are affecting lately is handsome, and is probably worth a good five extra points if you can hack...
...Lucy character began as a saxophonist who bleated, a chanteuse who croaked, a hoofer who fell down. Even in the final season, when the Lucy character met her look-alike, the actress Lucille Ball, the script concluded that the "real" Lucy was the star-struck onlooker, not the star. Yet, after Ball divorced Arnaz in 1960, the Lucy character also evolved into a capable single mother, then an independent and modestly successful career woman. Off- camera, Ball was happily remarried in 1961 to a courtly, protective ex- comic, Gary Morton, and took a keen maternal interest in the acting careers...
...Universal's Florida movieland is just a script. Disney's is a tangible fantasy -- real tinsel draped artfully over Hollywood's phony tinsel, an art industry glammed up as an elegant Deco dream. There is a sanitizing genius to the Disney parks, with their canny nostalgia for an America that may have existed only in the lace-valentine heart of a young Walt Disney. And the tactic works best when applying a cartoonist's paintbrush to a world that is fiction, on- and offscreen. Disney-MGM Studios marries movies to theme parks with the astuteness of Hollywood's hottest studio...
...Maybe I should worry about this, but I don't understand women's motivations, which means that I don't know how to address the script, the castings, etc. Women's reactions are extremely arbitrary...
HEATHERS. There's a disturbing mortality rate among Westerburg High's snooty elite. A rash of suicides? Or is someone killing the prom queens of Ohio? Daniel Waters' witty script touches two stark teen issues: the need to be accepted and the urge...