Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...excellent actress in films such as The big chill and The World According to Garp, and she does her best here, but it just isn't enough to salvage Maxie. Indeed, it's remarkable she doesn't fail completely in light of the lines Maxie is given. The script, which manages to cram at least five 20's cliches into every sentence, must have been hard for Close to read without either laughing or bursting into tears...
According to Rosen, Harvard's previous halftime promos had been 30-second pieces featuring someone standing on the Widener library steps reading from a script about Harvard's need-blind admissions policy...
...make the sophisticated new Harvard video, the News Office wrote a script and enlisted the aid of Howard Nielson, former WNEV-TV reporter and currently a CNN producer...
...background sound, Nielson read the script and Rosen chose some stock tracks of flourishing trumpets...
...PAPER, in some frenzied script development office, Creator could have been a good film--at least a bearable one. The idea of an eccentric scientist trying to clone his long dead wife bounces like a solid premise for a light comedy. Similarly, the tension in the film between God as reasonable and Reason as god might have been engaging, like the crunch of cold modern science and warm timelessly-fashioned love. And the acting of Peter O'Toole, who worked similar magic in The Stunt Man, should have been able to sustain the tension between the comic and philosophical elements...