Word: scripting
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...story, from John Bingham's novel Five Roundabouts to Heaven, was first dramatized in 1962 for an Alfred Hitchcock Hour called "The Tender Poisoner," with Dan Dailey as the husband, Jan Sterling as the wife and Howard Duff as the friend. Here, in the script that director Ira Sachs has written with Oren Moverman, the tale in set in the late '40s - prime time for film noir, whose shadowy contours and sleek period architecture the Sachs movie mimes. Of late, noir has often been pretzeled into post-modernism: by Joel and Ethan Coen in The Man Who Wasn't There...
...Blades of Glory.” In “Semi-Pro,” he plays sports commentator Lou Redwood. During the interview, Ferrell and Arnett bantered back and forth about Ferrell’s tendency to deviate from the movie’s script. “We tried to hedge our bets by shooting as many options, by improvising a lot, so that when you’re in the editing room, you aren’t nailed down to the actual script,” Ferrell said. This sort of comedic creativity gives the film...
...fittingly sharp tongue.Reiss revealed how difficult it can be for aspiring writers to break into the television industry. Between college and “The Simpsons,” he wrote extensively for “bad sitcoms with no legacy,” he said. The script that got him his big break was an episode of “The Golden Girls,” which, though never produced, impressed enough to land him a job with “The Simpsons.”Much of Reiss’ speech was devoted to some of the more...
...plot and characters’ lives. “The Hard Core” goes even further in viewer participation than television reality shows like “The Real World.” Stories shared on the website about sexual intimacy at Harvard may be incorporated into the script and may even serve as the main basis for new episodes.“The show is a pioneer in that we’re exploring the space outside of the dramatic episode,” Berman says. The creators hope that the new series will become part of Harvard...
...film, which flounders helplessly from the start. Ferrell is a natural comedian who’s at his best in films like “Wedding Crashers” and last year’s “Anchorman.” But even he could not turn a script that was disastrously half-baked (to put it lightly) into something halfway decent. For a comedy, “Semi-Pro” provoked remarkably few laughs. For a comedy featuring Will Ferrell, it provoked shockingly few. Moon (Ferrell) cracks awful joke after awful joke to the point of awkwardness...