Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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President Dole defended her actions in Quincy by repeating (word for word) what she had said during the campaign: the press is, in essence, blaming her for "being organized, disciplined and thinking carefully before I speak." There is indeed no hard evidence that Cabinet meetings are scripted, although the Secretary of Labor only added fuel to the widespread media speculation by saying, "One person's script is another person's extremely detailed agenda." Mrs. Dole's chastising of the Queen of Belgium for ad-libbing in the Oval Office has probably been overplayed...
...anybody around here get anything right!" It now seems clear, though, that the President was not shouting at Heather May--and definitely did not shake her, as some early reports had it. The President's remonstrance was directed at an aide only recently promoted from senior step counter to script manager...
Ross says she was just looking for a quality script. In fact, after agreeing to co-star with Brandy in Double Platinum--she liked the younger woman's spirit--she nearly pulled out after giving her character's dialogue a once-over. Says Ross: "So I asked the director [Robert Allan Ackerman], 'Will you allow me to improvise?' And he was very open to that." (Ross and Brandy both say they ad-libbed much of their dialogue.) Ross also made one more request: she wanted the script's setting moved from Los Angeles to New York City so she could...
...just double platinum, it's quadruple platinum. She has worked with Whitney Houston (on Cinderella). Now she's working with Ross. Even Brandy's dad, Willie Ray Norwood Sr., is impressed by this latest pairing. "I've loved Diana Ross my whole life," he says. Platinum's script sometimes called for Brandy's character to treat Ross with contempt. "I apologized to her after every scene," says Brandy, echoing her father's awe. "I was like, 'Ms. Ross, I'm just doing...
...Dependency on the originals extends far beyond decorative quoting: it informs the structure of Lucas' script so that Episode I gets lost in a world of juicy but ultimately soulless revelation. Every five minutes a new character makes its incredibly propitious entrance into the Star Wars saga--R2-D2 is the droid that saves the queen's ship from destruction and C-3PO was Darth Vader's boyhood engineering hobby--Tatooine just happens to be the most convenient planet for a pit stop...