Word: scripting
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...giant molecule's double spiral structure. Wilkins shared the Nobel Prize for Medicine with Watson and Crick in 1962. DIED. YANG HUANYI, late 90s, believed to be the last writer and speaker of a rare language used exclusively by women; in Jiangyong, China. Nushu, Mandarin for "women's script," was used to share emotions, particularly laments in marriage. In 2002, TIME counted Nushu among the 50% of the world's 6,000 languages facing extinction. DIED. RODNEY DANGERFIELD, 82, stand-up comic whose old-fashioned style of one-liners thrived in an era of hip young satirists; in Los Angeles...
Though he stubbornly resisted their suggestions, Donahue says his high school directors all told him he had the makings of a good director. The way he analyzed the script, deconstructed the scenes—all of it suggested the young actor was meant for something more...
...child behind the man--that's a theme in Bad Education, in which the main character is a homosexual plotting revenge for his childhood abuse by a priest. The actor playing that character must juggle many identities, and Almodvar saw that ability in Garca Bernal: "The script demanded someone who would be absolutely desirable both as a woman and as a man, who would be spontaneously virile and not be grotesque when the role was that of a transvestite. From the first tests, Gael was the one who was physically successful in both roles...
...Captain is every bit as much an animated film as Shark Tale. Kerry Conran's script has a plot lifted and sifted from lots of '30s films--The Wizard of Oz, Lost Horizon and a dozen sassy newspaper comedies. But the technique is the star here: Conran's devising of a Deco-meets-delirium universe that he projected onto a blue screen, in front of which the game, clueless stars--Jude Law as the intrepid flyboy, Gwyneth Paltrow as a plucky news gal--recited their lines...
...absolutely real,” director Jay Russell comments, who originally turned down the script because he was hesitant to assume responsibility for an accurate portrayal of firefighting under the shadow of 9/11. But heartened by the memories of a father and best friend who had served on the force, he resolved to approach the script with a focus on realism, a process that began with careful casting...