Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...days the rumors flew between the U.S. and Panama: a major shake-up was expected momentarily in the troubled Latin country. At 5:30 p.m. last Thursday, President Eric Arturo Delvalle, 51, appeared on nationwide television ahead of the evening news. Reading from a script, Delvalle told stunned viewers that he had asked for the resignation of General Manuel Antonio Noriega, 50, the military strongman who has run Panama for the past five years. Delvalle said he had requested Noriega to "voluntarily step aside" while the U.S. investigated drug-trafficking charges that federal grand juries in Miami and Tampa...
Somebody lost the script. By the middle of last week it seemed that chambermaids were fighting duels and delivery boys declaiming soliloquies. Not quite; the supporting actors who won were authentic first-seed skiers, delivering the message that there was too much talent for one or two superstars to dominate. Still, the surprise was genuine as West German Marina Kiehl won the downhill and a pair of strong Austrians, Anita Wachter and Sigrid Wolf, took the combined (a parlay of downhill and slalom) and the / super-G (a compressed, curvier downhill). Walliser managed a bronze in the combined and Figini...
...offer each other. The Actress (Jacqueline Sloan) tries to take advantage of a quiet moment alone with the Professor (Shawn Hainsworth). She desperately tries to seduce him. But onto the scene arrives the Actress's husband, the Ballplayer (Chris Cabot) to prevent the affair from ever happening. The script gives the illusion of suspense but never resolves the dissonance it creates. More questions seem to be asked than answered in this fragmented plot...
Much of the credit, according to Josephson goes to Sven Nykvist, a cinematographer whom the actor credits with having a living relationship with the camera. And, says Josephson, when Bergman realized what had happened, the director grew inspired, tailoring his script to bring out the best in Josephson...
...said his goals included changes in the plot and soundtrack. For example, he said the script had suffered from the authors' preoccupation with technical aspects of the production. "We lost sight of what the basis of the show was," Weiner said, adding that he and Hanning hoped to put more emphasis on the relationship between the lead characters, Jon and Jane...