Word: scripting
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...bosses stuck to their script. The economy is bad. We can't afford to keep you. So we're not. Hand in your badges on the way out. There were no individual explanations for why these workers--out of a work force of 40,000--had been picked. The members of the firing squad never even introduced themselves. It was over in eight minutes...
...divorced parent of a 12-year-old, I have fumbled for answers to my daughter's tentative queries about romance. "It's like being an actor in the best movie you've ever seen, but you never get to see the script, and no one will tell you how the movie ends," I told her. This didn't have quite the elucidating effect I was looking for. She looked as if she wanted to call her agent immediately...
...diary form, established by Helen Fielding in an Independent column and then two blithe best sellers, is smartly adapted in the script by Fielding, Andrew Davies (BBC's Pride and Prejudice) and Richard Curtis (Blackadder, Notting Hill) --a virtual conglomerate of middle-class Brit humor. It gives good lines and cunning motives to the stars, especially the newly gaunt Grant, who's irresistible as a randy cad. And, except for a catastrophic third act that comprises about 14 endings, two transatlantic flights and a long, clumsy fight scene, director Sharon Maguire nicely juggles the slapstick and heartbreak...
Uttering niceties after meeting with foreign dignitaries is a routine part of being President, but some stick to the routine more than others. While his predecessor was prone to off-the-cuff remarks during the White House photo op, W. rarely deviates from the script. The names may change (last week Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak), but the song remains the same...
It’s a good thing that this premise turns out to be secondary to the actual substance of the play, although the script apparently began as “a short story, a writer’s attempt to come to terms with the somewhat old notion that there is nothing new under the sun,” says Ragozzino in the program. Stephen, Scott’s Son is another collaboration between Ragozzino and director Andrew Boch ’02, who staged Ragozzino’s In Between O’Clock last spring. What saves...