Word: scripting
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...Clooney: Steven called me up and said you should do this script. I read it, and I thought yes, it's a really good script but I was in the middle of doing Good Night and Good Luck so I wasn't anxious to jump and do anything else. I'm very careful to work with first time directors. I had worries. I thought this is a really tricky piece of material, really well written, but there's a lot of traps. It could end up being jokey, which it can't be, if you're not incredibly adept...
...support the writers. But late night and politics are symbiotic, needing and feeding off each other. And in a way, the talk shows, which returned just in time for primary season, found themselves asking much the same thing as the political world: What happens when you throw out the script...
...ratings fell off after his return night.) But in both arenas, we saw that reliability and competence aren't everything. The strike, let us hope, will not last all election season. But TV's talkers--among others--learned that it's not always terrible to rip up the script...
...recent weeks, David Welch, the Pastor Council's director, has been traveling through Iowa to educate religious leaders about their legal rights to motivate evangelicals to attend the caucuses. He has provided churches with phone scripts and a automated phone calling service so pastors can encourage their members to turn out Thursday night. "God's word directs us in Exodus 18:21 to choose for rulers 'just men who will rule in the fear of God,'" reads one sample script. "We do that here by attending our precinct caucuses and bringing our faith and values with...
Through the laborious arranging of plot furniture in Justin Zackham's script - Edward has publicly proclaimed that every sick room in his hospitals must be filled with two patients - these disparate souls end up side by side, each one informed he has only a few months to live. It's as if Edward and Carter had been wheeled in to a UCLA screenwriting class. Here, students, is the movie ploy called "meeting cute" in its purest, weirdest form. What if George Bailey and Mr. Potter from It's a Wonderful Life were forced to endure each other's company...