Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...When Father Was Away on Business! As it happens, there is every reason to catch this endearing memory movie, which won the Palme d'Or at the 1985 Cannes International Film Festival. The memory is that of the Bosnian poet Abdulah Sidran, who fashioned his script from events affecting a Muslim community in Sarajevo from 1949 to 1952. The vision belongs to Director Emir Kusturica, 31; at his touch a story of regional peculiarities takes on the patina of Chagallian surrealism...
...Tommy Wilhelm, played by Robin Williams. The Nobel laureate has no ambitions about an Emmy. "I don't expect to add anything unless something of my absurdity comes through," says Bellow the actor. Bellow the writer was not tempted by the medium either. "I was approached to write the script," he says, "but it's not my trade. I'd have to learn how to do it." Besides, he thinks the scriptwriters have captured his original humorous intent. "There's a lot of funny stuff," agrees Williams. "But it's painful funny...
Yale's Band follows a practice of "selfcensorship," according to announcer Charles L. Rosenblum." But at a recent Yale-Army football game, the Yale band was prohibited from taking the field when Army's Athletic Director disapproved of the script, which made references to communism...
After reviewing Yale's script, Army's athletic director Carl Ullrich "gave us a lot of verbal abuse," said Rosenblum. "He forbid us to go on the field in any way shape or form. We thought everything we planned to do was fine." Rosenblum, who termed such censorship "preposterous," said he has found that schools outside the Ivy League are not always as receptive to Ivy League humor as those within...
Some Yalies would prefer not being in the spotlight, though. "I'm disgusted with them," said Adam S. Chodorow, a member of the band's script writing committee. "We get banned at Army because were lewd and obscene. We say we're tasteful and don't deserve the rap. Then, the next day, seven people drop their pants...