Word: sherwoods
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Born. To Horace Dodge Jr., 53, motor millionaire, and his fifth wife, Gregg Sherwood (real name: Dora Mae Fjelstad), 30, blonde ex-showgirl: their first child (his fifth), a son; in West Palm Beach, Fla. Name: John Francis. Weight...
...develop good writers, this author was given an NBC contract for more than $100,000 to write plays, the first of which was The Backbone of America: 1. Robert Sherwood...
...American literature--the sense of nature and of revelation of Emerson and Thoreau, the sharp and pessimistic but compassionate wit of Twain, Lardner, and Marquis, the enthusiasm of Whitman, the highly developed awareness of fantasy and symbolism of Melville, James, and Faulkner, the sense of social forces of Dreiser, Sherwood Anderson, and Steinbeck, and the linguistic facility of Thurber and Perelman. Add to this the satiric ability of George Orwell...
Before he became a TV writer, Sherwood had watched nothing but fights and ball games on his own set. With the TV contract in his pocket, he devoted a month to a careful study of TV drama, concluded that 1) TV is more like the theater than the movies; 2) live TV has more reality and immediacy than filmed TV; 3) kid parts should be kept to a minimum; and 4) he would never have an animal on his show...
After two weeks of rehearsal and constant rewriting of his script, Sherwood conceded that "TV is far and away the most difficult medium to write for, because of the terrific precision of the timing." Sherwood's second play, scheduled for February, is still untitled but "is full of slapstick and pratfalls." The third, to appear at Easter, will be a serious drama with a Biblical theme, called The Trial of Pontius Pilate. Says Sherwood: "I thought the first ones should be comedies. I wanted to sort of ease into television...