Word: teleplay
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...American TV executives are at the same threshold. With help from Saunders and AbFab script editor Ruby Wax, Roseanne has reworked the teleplay for her pilot episode three times in an effort to appease ABC bosses. "The first script I turned in was almost exactly what they would have done at the BBC," she says. But the network executives balked at the drug and alcohol references. Edina and Patsy, who may be played in the American version by Carrie Fisher and Barbara Carrera, "won't be swilling Bollinger and vodka," says Roseanne, "but we will imply...
Terrence McNally, the playwright of this austerely sentimental journey, is a longtime toiler in the vineyards of the theater who increasingly finds himself the height of hot. His libretto for the Broadway musical Kiss of the Spider Woman won a shower of awards including a Tony; his AIDS teleplay, Andre's Mother, won an Emmy; his domestic tragicomedy, Lips Together, Teeth Apart, has been a hit on both coasts, and Frankie and Johnny became a movie with Al Pacino and Michelle Pfeiffer. In his early hits Next and The Ritz, McNally revealed his fevered comic sense, satiric wit, robust skepticism...
Some ABC executives may regret that they are telling this one. In selling ABC the rights to his 1,042-page tome, author Wouk (who also co-wrote the teleplay) demanded stringent restrictions on advertising. No commercials for personal-care products such as laxatives and foot powder. No commercial breaks longer than two minutes. Perhaps most galling to the network, no promotional spots for other ABC shows except at the beginning and end of each episode...
...series of the season thus far, starts out with a reasonable plan: to pluck four individuals from the huddled masses who came to these shores and tell their stories. Unfortunately, the seven-hour drama (based on a novel by Fred Mustard Stewart, who also had a hand in the teleplay) seems less interested in chronicling the immigrant experience than in salvaging the wretched refuse of scores of bad Hollywood movies...
...felt no foreboding at all. This TV movie wonders just what he was capable of feeling. Hauer is a Dutch actor (Soldier of Orange, Nighthawks) with a sharp-featured face that emotion seems never to have touched. Thus he makes a perfect Speer, whom E. Jack Neuman's teleplay depicts as a young man not so much on the make as on the irresistible rise. He is a camera that, too late, became a witness...