Word: scripting
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...offers to come over and read aloud to us your illegible remarks—we can (officially) read anything, and we may be married. Write on both sides of the page—single bluebook finals look like less work to grade, and win points. This chic, shaded calligraphic script so many are affecting lately is handsome, and is probably worth a good extra five points if you can hack it.But above all, keep us entertained. Keep us awake. Be bold, be personal, be witty, be chock full of facts. I’m sure...
...Alexander uses guided imagery to help clients get back in touch with their creativity and reduce performance anxiety. "I help them visualize a comfortable, safe place," he says, "and we explore a forest, a meadow, a desert or the wide-open sky?symbols of the white page of a script or an empty screen. What locks people up is the feeling that they have to create something, which comes from the narcissistic need to be affirmed...
...informed me this wasn't a meeting. All sitcom writing, it turns out, is done by committee. One of the writers eventually says something that makes everybody laugh. Then Marco approves it, and a writers' assistant, who sits at a nearby desk and never talks, types it into the script, which appears on huge TVs on either side of our table. This, I was surprised to learn, is exactly how Shakespeare wrote...
...picture," says the cynical scenarist played by William Holden in Billy Wilder's 1950 Sunset Blvd. "They think the actors make it up as they go along." O.K., most actors don't write their own dialogue. But they are more than handsome lugs and ladies. They are the script's words made flesh, the director's dreams embodied. And for us people out there in the dark, actors are our best, our baddest, our deepest and most glamorous selves...
...things still on their wish list, such as an inflation provision in the minimum-wage hike, the right to buy cheaper prescription drugs from abroad and higher spending on education and health care for the poor. "We should be on the offensive and not reacting to Arnold's new script, which is designed to save his own job," says Phil Angelides, the state treasurer and another gubernatorial candidate...