Word: scripting
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...happened-as Hollywood would have seen fit to script it-the only people aside from Reagan who really believed in Star Wars were the military leadership of the Soviet Union. The Zap! Pow! Bam! comic-book defense strategy reinforced Moscow's growing despair about the future and hastened the end of the cold war. And that, finally, is what has proved most galling to the Gipper's ideological opponents: his glossy Hollywood optimism proved more supple than the professional pessimism of the intellectual left. Ultimately, Reagan's sloppy and often insensitive domestic governance will have little impact on his place...
...When Jun decided she was ready to return to comedy, so was Kwak. He'd written the script for Windstruck, a tale of a romance between a goofy high-school teacher and a sassy female police officer, with Jun in mind. The script?and Jun's likely involvement?caught the attention of Kong, who was looking for a way into South Korea's ballooning film industry, which now captures more than 50% of the country's box office. Kong thought that a broad South Korean comedy like Windstruck, with an international star like Jun, had a chance...
...rescue, vanquish the enemy, get hailed as liberators, set everything right and then come home having left a place better than we found it. The facts are never that clean, but the expectation has its own power, and every President who sent soldiers abroad has followed a similar script. Ronald Reagan invoked the lessons of World War II as the reason for sending peacekeepers to Lebanon, Clinton did so in defending U.S. involvement in Kosovo, and another President named Bush likened a tyrant with a mustache and a taste for torture to the original in making his case for going...
...chemistry" between TONY RANDALL and me on The Odd Couple. But the chemistry really came out of the work. By the time the show began in 1970, we had 65 years of experience on the stage between us. We knew what we were doing. We'd start with a script every Monday, and maybe out of 40 pages only six would remain by week's end. We'd improvise, and the writers would rewrite, and the next day we'd go with what they had written. At the end of every season, we'd hear we were canceled...
...laying out a nice script, a nice James Cameron script, with a great, great ending in the end." ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER, California Governor, announcing his controversial deal with local governments to cut $1.3 billion from the state budget...