Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...effect, it was also Communist Party Leader Mikhail Gorbachev's June 23 letter outlining Soviet arms proposals vs. President Reagan's July 25 counteroffer. With those documents as their bibles, the two teams sparred across a green felt table for two days as each exhaustively ran down its prepared script. Only in the last hours did the discussions get intense, as each side sought to pin down more precisely what the other side's complex and often ambiguous proposals meant. Explained a senior U.S. official: "We talked a lot about broad concepts of offense and defense, what is related...
Patrick Massengill, a Pentagon cartographer, kept things in order with twelve pages of script and 34 maps that boiled a long day's fighting down to 2 1/2 hours. Troop movements were as accurate as history and conjecture could make them, but deaths, desertions and the like were left to the inspiration of the combatants. Said Massengill: "There is a lot of ham in these people...
...script called for Anderson, Farmer and the other colonials to lose, and they did (at Greenfield Village, the Americans win on Sundays). But casualties were unusually light. Did an afternoon downpour have anything to do with this? Yes, admitted an insider. Authenticity is fine, but getting your uniform clean again is pure hell after you have expired for your country on muddy ground...
...titled Unknown Chaplin. Film Historians Kevin Brownlow and David Gill (who produced the program in 1983 for Britain's Thames TV) scoured the great comedian's archives and other sources for outtakes, home movies and other never before seen footage. In most of his productions, Chaplin worked without a script -- improvising, experimenting and refining on film until he was satisfied, throwing out whole sequences or starting over when he wasn't. There are tantalizing scenes of the director at work (Chaplin getting exasperated with a bit player who has trouble shuffling cards) and some admirable detective work (a dangerous-looking...
...play Ripley like Henry V and like the women warriors of classic Chinese literature." Aliens was no take-the-money-and-run proposition (though she was paid $1 million, about 30 times her salary for the 1979 original). As Cameron remarks, "She's intensely prepared. Her copy of the script was marked with 17 different colors of ink. The margin notes were incredible: she got the dramatic significance of almost every line of dialogue and how each one might tie in with a later scene...