None of this is in the playwright’s script; Courtney is writing a backstory based on what she imagines and what she knows of real life. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Over her shoulder, I see Cal sitting on a platform, writing something in the margin of his script. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

“He got took away,” Abby says, covering her script with one hand. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Her dress was a full wide-skirted black alpaca, and at her throat she wore a pin which spelled “Mother” in golden script. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I was wearing a newly altered, totally revamped military-style jacket with epaulets and brass buttons, and I’d embroidered the back, by hand; it read, in a loose script, people are strange. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Mami stood there watching, as I picked up the pencil, carefully tore a sheet from my notebook, and, in labored script, wrote, “Dear Tata, I hope when you receive this letter...” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Rows and rows of numbers, over and over again, in neat columns, in her small, tight script. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

I don’t read it, but I can recognize the script. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Besides, I saw that idea in a book,” Emily continued with their script. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Kneeling on the floor, she began to write in the same curly script that Mo had used for his message. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

It would be the writer’s third script for The Mercury Theatre on the Air, and it would alter his life. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

I went inside to study the script in the den. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

The day after I won an important regional tournament, the window encased a fresh sheet cake with whipped- cream frosting and red script saying, “Congratulations, Waverly Jong, Chinatown Chess Champion.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although it will be a low-budget number, the script itself is chock-full of disturbing truths and has the most fascinating tonalities and ironies. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, Jennifer closed her script and got herself into some kind of yoga position. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Toby could barely hear what Luke was saying when Ms. Hildebran came to the door, but he knew the script well enough. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I took it and flipped through the pages, pondering the alien script. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I know, sir, that next to scripts that are Tender and Poignant, you love scripts that have Courage and Integrity. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

For years, they had both been fascinated by the Mayan glyphs, the script of the ancient Maya of Mesoamerica. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The silver band on her finger is engraved with what Marco had thought was an intricate filigree, but is the same phrase in a looping script. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

And I say, I say—” She paused and ran her finger under a line in the script. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

The audience guffawed at this spontaneous addition to the script. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

The domed ceiling of the enormous hall was covered with delicate hand paintings and Latin phrases written in decorative script. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He sounded like he was reciting the words from a script. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I finally put down the script when it came time to announce every country that was represented in the room. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Below this Crusade for Moorish Digniti/ was written in an intricate blue script. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The uses of these telegraphic, clumsy, ambiguous early scripts were as restricted as the number of their users. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

We pass by thousands of plaques, each emblazoned with ornate script. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

They wrote a script, made scenery, brought in props, and even held the camera. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

It is slightly tarnished and engraved with something that the boy thinks might be words in Latin, but the script is looping and flourished and he cannot make them out. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Working all night, he, Koch, and Froelick tackled the story, and together they made progress on the script. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

There’s a giant painting in Arabic script across from the doorway. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

On January 4, 1993, this writer received an unusual letter, penned in a shaky, anachronistic script that suggested an elderly author. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet the threat of it hung over my head, along with the more dire threat of Falconer out there, waiting for me to deliver the script. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

The script is punctuated with excruciatingly long pauses. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the rest of the night, Houseman and Stewart labored over the script, adding details, sprucing up dialogue, and building suspense. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

He used to write her letters every day, when he still had the strength, long letters in an old- fashioned script with flourishes and curlicues. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Part of my job involved poring over scripts for our clients’ TV and radio ads, making sure they didn't violate Federal Communications Commission standards. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

For birthdays his mother orders a cake on which his name is piped across the white frosted surface in a bright blue sugary script. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

An e-mail correspondent has memorized the script of every Simpsons episode. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I'm working hard in my acting classes, and I also spend a lot of time reading scripts and monologues alone in my apartment. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Amelia Johnson, four weeks old” had been written in careful script on the back. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The script was balanced on my knees, but I didn't feel like doing anything with it. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

It took me forever to decode Van Houten’s sloped, scratchy script. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

“For those of us who are already off book, should we still carry our scripts to take notes?” asks Taylor. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Dreamers runs in loopy script across the top. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

While reading their lines, they had to be careful not to rustle the script’s pages. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

But did he actually think that was going to help, when he sounded so much like he was reading from a script? The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Throwing his arms around, he made changes to the previously rehearsed script, delivered his own lines as Professor Richard Pierson, and impatiently screamed instructions at everyone else. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

If she could have just one back, it would be the kelly-green V-neck with Lonely Hearts Club written across it in curly script, after an old Beatles song. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I didn't come with any script today, either. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

On the back, in graffiti-style script, Folk had written: The Universal Don. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The columns on the tablet are made up of cuneiform script detailing various instruments, including the kinnor, the hand-held harp-like instrument that is alternatively known as a lyre. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Tonight he would script his own end with a performance that equaled his triumph at Ford’s. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even his conversation was, as it were, a spoken part It would end according to the script. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Right away, the script had to reveal where the story was happening and who the characters were, providing enough details for the listener to form a mental picture. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

It was in script, so it was really hard to read. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Below that, on her wrist, she had two sets of initials written in black script inside an anatomical heart. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

These days I script whole fights, in my head, and the reconciliations afterwards too. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would have written it while he looked, but his clear, elegant script intimidated me. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

I laid one hand on my wallet, to reassure myself that the hard-won script was still safely tucked within. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

It gives you a script to follow when you have absolutely no idea what to say. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Since, however, he could neither read nor write English, he acquired no details or even principles from the existing scripts around him. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I carried the picnic basket into the kitchen with no help, resting my script and notepad on top. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

The Polynesians living on Easter Island, in the Pacific Ocean, had a unique script of which the earliest preserved examples date back only to about A.D. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I just stared down at my script and pretended to read. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

It was a script for a biohazard operation. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thy showed me the script, and it is so progressive. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

When I’m a famous pianist, I’ll make sure the name written in fancy script on the program says my full name—Isabella Badia Thornton. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

“It is not in the script!” he cried. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

I felt that he had missed a line in his script. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Slowly, using her best script, she copied her notes from the past two decades of insect study. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She always told this story the same way, and it was such a favorite that if she departed in any way from the usual script, we’d tell it for her. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I grabbed my script from my nightstand. cast a guilty look at the binder on the shelf, and climbed onto my bed to sit cross-legged. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Ellis looks at Mom as if she’s reading from the wrong script. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

The entertainment Tagoe delivered with his B-movie scripts, like Canary Clown and the Carnival of Doom and Snake Taxi—though Substitute Doctor was just so bad, even for a bad movie. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

In addition, the forms of Mesoamerican writing signs were entirely different from those of any Old World script. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

In honor of his script, the community made Koch the Grand Marshall of the Martian Parade, the highlight of the War of the Worlds anniversary celebration. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Thus, it remains unknown whether it represents an indigenous Cretan script or a foreign import to Crete. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I'm sure my family in Iran wondered why I followed the same predictable script for every conversation. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

I'd put the script aside and was sitting at my desk painting the kitchen scene from Anne of Green Gables in my diorama. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

I kept praying that Hess wouldn’t tell me the plot of his new script. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

If I groped about in the dark long enough, I might manage eventually to break into the book keeper's trunk and liberate the script. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Our wagon was painted a bright red, with the Company’s name in demon script painted in large, bold gold letters on its sides. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The weathered yellow parchment unfurled, covered with faded Latin script and elaborate hand-drawn pictures. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I placed the script on my lap and opened it. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

I turn and look to the door, deciding to make the Ripley-Grier hallway the “out back” of Elliott’s house in the script. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Janice brandished her silver cap gun at us tired and scared runaway slaves more than Sister Pat’s script had called for. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Below each gay scrap of color was a scientific name in my grandfather’s careful copperplate script. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

A related limitation is that few people ever learned to write these early scripts. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Let’s see if there are scripts. Come on.” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

I went over the script in my head once more. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The letter, written in a pleasingly legible script, was dated April 28, 1958, at which time the recipient had been imprisoned for approximately two years: Dearest Bro. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Abby said as she flipped through the script in the passenger seat. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“I am sorry. We won’t ever do this again,” Lily said in a flat-sounding voice, as if she was just saying words from a script. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Two words were written in his elegant script. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Every part of the concert was carefully planned and scripted, but Kaira had never said that before. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

I pulled out the script from under the bed and placed it on my lap. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

The incident came off as smoothly as one might expect of a tested and well-rehearsed script. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

But as more of them ignite, it becomes clear that they are aligned in scripted letters. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“No excuses this time!!” she scrawls in her sharply slanted script. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

But eventually I was going to have to translate the play into ordinary script, and then the gaps would be as ostentatious as the slashes in the clothing of those young dandies I'd seen. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

I know her name ’cause it’s written in big script on the whiteboard. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

For a week, while I’m pasturing the animals after school, I write the story out in script form in my notebook. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The young woman who helped Koch with The War of the Worlds and other Mercury Theatre on the Air scripts also saw her life transformed by the broadcast. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

They all had their scripts in their hands. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

He had said I must have the script for him that very night, or—well, he had not made it clear what the alternative was, but I knew it would not be pleasant. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

I scribbled down a script to fight off my nerves. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

“Aunt Jenny wants you to help pick your new costar. The next script has a puppy in it!” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

So I had no further chance to carry off the script. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

To stay under the sixty-minute mark, he cut lines from the script’s ending. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

When Welles heard about this, he declared his ownership of the script. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Of those advances—in paper, movable type, metallurgy, presses, inks, and scripts—paper and the idea of movable type reached Europe from China. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

One thing I was sure of—he was still in London somewhere and still determined to have the script. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

While Mrs. Grossinger tried to breathe life back into Maxine’s body, while the sun set melodramatically over a death that wasn’t in the script, I felt a wave of pure happiness surge through my body. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I dropped my gaze to the script, as though it might provide my next line, but it was of no help. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Some will even write the lyrics in the script of the original language. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

They talk about their parts, sometimes even ad-libbing lines that are not in the script. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

As Frodo did so, he now saw fine lines, finer than the finest pen-strokes, running along the ring, outside and inside: lines of fire that seemed to form the letters of a flowing script. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“My dad is a script adviser,” Bridget said quietly. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

We slapped palms and left the library thumbing through our scripts. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

According to the standard ways by which we measure persuasiveness — by the logic and appropriateness of the persuader’s arguments — that should make the people using the script book every bit as persuasive as Tom Gau. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Closed Due to Inclement Weather it says, in a fancy script surrounded by playfully painted grey clouds. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

At the studio, Woolf was given the same script. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I placed the script on the patio table, but something told me not to sit down. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Then, down in the corner, in black, a name in delicate script: Carlos. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Across the top of the page, she wrote, Dear Erastis, in crumbling script. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Printed in giant script at the top was WINES, ALES, SPIRITS. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Every time I call her, I’m given the same scripted responses. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Kelly pulled a copy of the script page out of her pocket. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

I’m cruising through it, adding my “yup’s” through mouthfuls of cereal, when she changes up the script. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

In the script, the dialogue is written with some exclamation points, but Bobby has stopped playing it with bombast. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

The assignment was to embroider “Welcome to Our Home” in flowery script. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“Mr. Morrison, if we’re writing our own scripts, shouldn’t I have some say about the character I develop?” Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

I drank cups of coffee and listened to Mozart quintets and read the portions of the script he had cut out. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You can’t write a script in your mind and then force yourself to follow it. You have to let yourself be, Richard,” she said quietly. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

And, yes, there was a big bag with the beautiful word Cheese-o-mania written in golden script on the front of it. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

In gold script her name curled across the left lens. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

In a half dozen others were papers, some written on, others sealed, some with line after line of careful script crossed out with thick colored lines. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

It would go on the air in five days, and they had to have a script ready for Thursday morning’s rehearsal. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

For the last few years, I'd been employed as a creative executive at ABC Daytime, and I'd gotten adept at finding windows of opportunity to catch up on scripts. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Someone had written beside him Dr. Jonathan Wick in elegant, old-fashioned script. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Yet, if it came down to it, I might be better off with them than facing Falconer without the script in my hands. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

In the script, the spa was the front for a sinister criminal mastermind who was spying on very important people by planting listening devices on their pets. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“You have no idea how difficult it is to find actors for as many parts as we need played for this script,” said Mr. Gregory. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

She baked a Barbie cake with a skirt of pink and blue icing and wrote Happy Birthday Ashley in loopy script. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

He was so busy that he often read his scripted lines for the first time the moment he stepped in front of the microphone for the broadcast. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

“Oh my God. This is what you do when I’m not home. You watch scripted TV.” Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

He met Gene Johnson at the loading dock, where they went over Gene’s script. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can imagine someone buying this script book and memorizing each of these potential responses. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Look, this one is crumbling," he said, frowning over the faded script. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Ms. Albright is sitting next to Taylor on one of the platforms, pointing at something in Taylor’s script. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

More purely pictorial than Zapotec or Maya script, the texts were arranged almost randomly on the page; red lines directed the reader s eye from image to image. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

After the War of the Worlds broadcast, many people and organizations wanted to publish the script. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

The gold chain is that twisty type of chain they sell at mall kiosks, and the charm says Dolly in a bubbly cursive script. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The disk’s script was a syllabary with more signs, of more complex form, than the Roman alphabet used by Gutenberg. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

There is a sick, reactionary villain in the script, an Irish landlord who refuses to rent to the couple, who by this time have been married in this subdued Ethical Culture ceremony. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It sounded like she was reading from a prefabricated script. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Macy and the two other students onstage held scripts, and Macy spoke in a voice I would never have recognized, sure and strong. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

I took my script back to the bedroom and started studying it. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Peeta does his part of the scripted reply and then I find my lips moving to conclude it. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

It had been Cyrillic, the script that Russian and Ukrainian were written in. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Call it a miracle, an accident, or a case of two powerful personalities willing themselves to expire on schedule and according to script. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

By Saturday morning, the new script had been mimeographed and distributed to the cast and technical staff. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Early scripts were incomplete, ambiguous, or complex, or all three. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I gave the polite one-word answers that would have been written down in a script about some other kid. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Blood leeched through the silk handkerchief Frankie had wrapped my hand in, blotting out the monogram embroidered in Gothic script. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“I need every minute of my free time to work on my script. So I can’t help you talk to Elena or Oliver about the Hideout message stuff. Sorry.” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

But consensual sex is something that the authors of most novels and scripts about prison can’t seem to acknowledge. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I filled it with your favorite things: Cuddly the koala and your old, ripped script from My Fair Lady. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

That was fairly interesting, but then I noticed his back, which was almost entirely covered by a long poem in Spanish, tattooed in a flowing script. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She smiles at me as she picks up a copy of the script, but it doesn't reach her eyes. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I wish I had left the script in the car. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

But his handwriting, an ornate script he learned in another century, revealed his decay. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kelly dropped to her hands and knees, laying her script on the carpet in front of her. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Just as I reached for the script on my nightstand, I heard my mother out in the hall going on and on about her datebook. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

And if I took the script, I would indeed have betrayed my fellows. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

His wife in the TV parlour paused long enough from reading her script to glance up. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the morning that I joined them they were testing a proposed script at a preschool in Greenwich Village. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I whirled about, expecting to see Falconer at my elbow, demanding the completed script. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

My script flew from my grasp and hit him. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Then, by hand, I copy a script for each student. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Their name was written on every suitcase in script, and the F and the Y had very long tails. I like long tails.” Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

I was given no script, no talking points, no advice. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Beneath the picture, calligraphy script announces my full name—CAMELLIA BEAUREGARD—and my best arcana: AURA. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Jefferson was perfectly capable of remaining on script and in role as philosopher-king to the end. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The CBS censors expected to see the script by Friday afternoon. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

We sat cross-legged on the floor and squinted at our scripts as we angled them toward the light under the curtain. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Hanging on the wall is a huge blue banner with the crossed swords, gold lettering, and the script Non Nobis Solum. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Her worst mistake is decorating a christening cake in bold red script with the words “In sympathy.” Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

In both places the public death was accompanied by the reading of ritual scripts. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

But even with my skill at lying I would have a hard time explaining broken locks and a missing script. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

But Houseman’s talent helped him find work writing theatre scripts and directing plays. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

My secret journal was an old hardback copy of The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky, in which I spent hours writing in a tiny script between the tightly printed lines. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Before I approach the Records and Registration desk, I practice my script in my head. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I wanted her to hear me say my parts without my even glancing at the script. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

“Take a look at script pages one to three, and we’ll bring you back in about ten minutes.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

I spread out my towel near the swings and settled down with my script. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

I know, Mate and I drew up the list ourselves in the pretty script we’d been taught by the nuns for writing out Bible passages. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Blue’s Clues tester played the part of Steve, and walked the kids through the script, making a careful note of all the questions they answered correctly and those that seemed to baffle them. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cavalier d’Épées it reads in fancy script at the bottom of the card. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The letters were coming out strange and blockish, neither English cursive nor the German-style Kurrent script I had been taught years ago by my tutor. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

By then, many newspapers had published the program’s script, which CBS released to the press. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

The men soon discovered how difficult it was to condense a novel into sixty pages, the average script length for a one-hour program. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

“The script gives you some idea, but you have to figure out the rest of it yourself. Then everything you do onstage, the way you say your lines, how you move, is based on that.” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

I was advised that the name Rocinante painted on the side of my truck in sixteenth-century Spanish script would cause curiosity and inquiry in some places. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just then, Pollard’s script spilled to the floor. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had just one script and I’d never manage improvisation now. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

When it was his turn, Don dutifully rose to the challenge by successfully mouthing the scripted words, “This is Don Billings-ley. Headline news next. . .” Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She didn't look up from her script again. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

In front of him were his microphone and a music stand holding the script marked with cues and timings from the previous rehearsal. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Sen came to them in tidy ballpoint script, posted on an index card outside the supermarket: ‘‘Professor’s wife, responsible and kind, I will care for your child in my home.” Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

At last, Orson Welles cues the next line in the script. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

On July 6, nearly finishing her research, she made a handwritten note in a hybrid of script and cursive, letters smaller and neater and more right-leaning than in her diary. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

He could see signs in familiar Persian script on many of the storefronts. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

The script was changed to the American word sewers. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

In Room 205, the morning journal assignment was written in neat script on the board. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

With his arm fully extended and his palm up, as if the script were on a serving tray. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Each picture was signed with a childlike script. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Koch had to adjust to writing radio scripts, just as Houseman had. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Welles saw no need to make such a change in the script. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

The CBS legal department wanted twenty-eight changes to Koch’s revised script. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

The script being tested was about animal behavior. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They sent staff members into Studio One to confiscate all scripts of the radio play. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Right before her was a piece of notebook paper, half filled with her square, laborious script. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

Even his own vice president, John Adams, conceded that Washington seemed dazed and wholly scripted at certain public ceremonies, like an actor reading his lines or an aging athlete going through the motions. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Get this. They gave me the question. Told me to memorize it before the show. Hardly live if it’s scripted.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

With those stamps, their owner could make copies much more quickly and neatly than if he or she had written out each of the script’s complicated signs at each appearance. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The gently looping script was pale gray on the creamy paper, too faded to make out in the dim room. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Now I put the script aside, pulled on yesterday's pedal pushers, and slipped yesterday's T-shirt over my head. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Ivy saw their mailbox, The Aberdeens written in curvy script, dented and on its side near the big oak tree. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

"Trouble? You haven't begun to learn what trouble is! Where is the script?" The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

The clue order they had — the clue order that seemed the best back when they were writing the script — gave the answer away far too soon. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It involves people making very sophisticated decisions on the spur of the moment, without the benefit of any kind of script or plot. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

The journey to Cathair would take a little over a week, and every mile of it was carefully scripted. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Every summer, she selects a rising senior to be in charge of the summer show—to pick the script, cast the players, and direct the whole thing. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Goebbels himself—a failed novelist and playwright earlier in life—had taken to reviewing the scripts of nearly all films personally, using a green pencil to strike out or rewrite offending lines or scenes. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Let's go home and read our scripts tonight—to get an overview—and read them together tomorrow.” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Even in rare moments when the drama lagged, she stated, “I believe this was a script issue—not an actor issue.” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Lurz asked, running his finger down a list of names written in careful script next to page numbers. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

He walked over, read the last page, nodded, folded the script, and handed it back to her. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would hope that at a school like Amsterdam Heights, these roles would be studied and exposed, that we'd create scripts that dismantle these caricatures. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

The two women walk the room and hand out hot-pink folders with the Eighty-First Annual Clover City Miss Teen Blue Bonnet logo printed across the front in gold script. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

They passed out flyers, pamphlets—A Message from City Councilman John Kwang—buttons, ballpoint pens, keychains, lapel pins, every last piece of it stamped with his perfectly angled script, simply signed, John. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

And we go through the exact same script every time. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Several other prominent American revolutionaries also talked as if they were actors in a historical drama whose script had already been written by the gods. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

I called her tonight, hoping to smooth things over, but her mother answered the phone and gave some scripted response. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Cherokee writing remains one of the best-attested examples of a script that arose through idea diffusion. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Using thick “presentation books” that scripted each word, teachers at the school signaled commands by snapping their fingers, clapping, or pounding on a book or desk, so the lessons were fast-paced and rhythmic. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

We’re familiar with the script: “Please and thank you,” Rebecca says, her voice barely audible. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

I'm following a script sent by NASA, which was set up to make things as easy as possible. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside there were tapestries on the walls, a suit of armor with French script over the visor, and, in black leotards, Clementine’s slender mother. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“In the future, Tater,” suggested Nala, “let’s try to stick to the script. Improvising can be dangerous.” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Wilder and Gilman had presented the clues in the order that the script had stipulated: ice, waddle, then black and white. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A palace, drawn in blue ink, with flowing script like the script on an Italian menu. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He had less than a week to write an hour-long script! Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Censorship, which at first covered only the mass media, was soon extended to textbooks, song lyrics, movie scripts, and even private conversation. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

And on the backboard of a basketball hoop at the West Side court, I suggested he write it in gang script. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

In the room that Patti calls my bedroom, there's a calendar and a picture of something written in a long, beautiful script. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

In the middle of the blades, a round brass boss proclaimed in curly script, Chicago’s Finest Wind Machine. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

I’ve encountered a geek with newly minted coins from around the world and one who’s written an elaborate digital music script for all of Beethoven’s works. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another technique was to write in tiny, coded script on toilet paper. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And when I did, when I had stolen the script from under their very noses, then I would be the one to laugh. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I still want to save up for my camera. Oh! Speaking of, I finished my script and sent it to Ms. Francis. She’s going to email me her comments sometime this summer.” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

It says Happy Anniversary in flowery script on the outside. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

That very night, as if he were playing a scripted role, Kevin called me and said, “So, who are you taking to the Ocotillo Ball?” Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

The three of us sit around a small table and discuss possible projects while Mrs. Johnson flips through a pile of scripts on her desk. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Always around bedtime, always midway through some increasingly familiar script. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Tubular neon in cursive script decorates the restored brick facades, and there’s a lot of brass trim, a lot of real estate, a lot of money. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I take a deep breath in the hall, and then, glancing down again at the sides, blurry on account of my rapid-fire hand shuddering, make out the older brother’s last line of the script page. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

The black Japanese script cut into the white face of the obelisk read simply, “A Memorial to the Dead.” Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s the first day without scripts, and we jump right into running some of the big group scenes. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Despite Houseman’s skill in writing short stories and theatre scripts, he had no experience with radio. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Olanna laughed and then felt as if she were following a script, as if Odenigbo’s excitement would abide nothing but more excitement. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Hear ye, hear ye,” the others shouted, reading from the scripts Mary Anne had prepared. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Using the road map and novel to guide him, Koch tried to write the script Welles expected. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

People seem to be actors and the lines seem to be scripted and you just stand there with your mouth hanging open, wondering if you look as stupid as you feel? From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“The part of a sink that the water goes down is called a drain,” the teacher said, reading from her script. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

I picked up my script and settled on my bed. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

For the early shows, they hammered out the scripts together. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

I knew, from the tight and slanted script on the back, who it was. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Is this the new script Mr. LeSage sent over?” she asked. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

It was written in neat script and was dated November 27, 1931. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I got dressed quickly, then dashed outside with my script just in time to see Jennifer leaving for dance class with her grandmother. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

He has a long monologue to speak—twenty lines of type in the script, delivered as he walks the stage and leads a tour of first-year students. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

The second round was all scripted, and if they didn’t get what they liked, they would just run it again.” Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

The draft of the script was passed out to the Mercury actors chosen by Stewart, Welles, and Houseman. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

He sketched the letters of the name in large floral script, as if seeking to dispatch the cumbersome duty of addressing the card as quickly as possible, before advancing to the message itself. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Froelick tried acting and modeling without success before Houseman hired her to type scripts. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

We shared a long, steady look that told me Fang and I were reading from the same tragic script. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“Besides, I saw that idea in a book,” Emily continued with their script. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Everyone agrees, and for the next hour we talk and debate the wording of the script. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

She turns the script upside down, using her leg to hold her place. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Then he signed his name in a fine steel-engraving script and blotted it carefully. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, when he voiced one of the scripts for a pilot recording, he didn’t like the sound of his own voice, and he wouldn’t approve a professional announcer as a substitute. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I held a page of the records close to my face to make out the small script, then began reading out loud, “ ‘This twenty-eight-year-old’... something ... The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Turns out she took a couple of screenwriting classes in college, so she knows a little about it. She offered to read my script for me when I’m done!” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

“I’m a utility program,” the Librarian continues, speaking over me as if he has a script he must complete first. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Janice brandished her silver cap gun at us tired and scared runaway slaves more than Sister Pat’s script had called for. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Bobby looks at the script, he notes a scene in which the stage direction says, Justin is electric in this scene. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

"Break the lock! I want that script, and I am accustomed to getting what I want. Have it for me tonight. I'll be waiting. Understood?" The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

"The script is so good, Kareena," I tell her, with another quick look at my watch. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Even his script is neat: up and down perfectly, with really small round loopy letters. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

At the Alcazar he inserted into scripts the names of popular products, bars, and restaurants, including the Cliff House, and for this received another stream of income. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I was sure I would be the only one who would not have to read lines from the script—the only one who could actually act them out from memory. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

“It’s definitely more complicated, given the cultural scripts we’ve all grown up with,” said Woolner, who has a master’s degree in counseling and radiates a thoughtful sincerity. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

He presented Pollard with a complete script for the interview, leaving nothing to the jockey’s rich imagination or questionable vocabulary. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the beginning there were many leaves covered with Bilbo’s thin wandering hand; but most of it was written in Frodo’s firm flowing script. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

The mention of Mr. Shakespeare brought to mind something that the day's constant activity had pushed aside—the lost script. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

I'm no actress, but I can tell Kareena's script is amazing. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Most of it looked to be journal entries, all scrawled out in elegant script. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

The bookshelves, window sills, radiators, and all other flat surfaces are piled high with anthologies of plays, copies of scripts, and videotapes and sound tracks of Broadway productions. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

It was a place the script called Shinbone Alley, in a shabby section of the city. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

After dates with eight different “candidates,” each of whom adhered to the same sexless script, he abandoned Church relationships as the avenue to an amorous life. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Eurasia and Mesoamerica developed indigenous writing, which failed to emerge in Polynesia, except perhaps on Easter Island, whose mysterious script may however have postdated the islanders’ contact with Europeans. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“We have to write the script, invite people to be on the video, interview and film them, edit the videos, and prepare for the school event. Hmmm, how about the beginning of November?” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

His scripts—for that is what they were—were meticulously detailed, and came complete with stage directions. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

He’s a junior like me, and he carries a double-spaced copy of the script clipped into a giant blue binder, exploding with pencil notes. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

The letter was handwritten on fine, unlined paper in looping script so ornate it was almost calligraphy, the black ink varying in tone like that of an old fountain pen. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I reached for the script and flipped to the first page of dialogue. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

In her decisive script, she wrote on them “important” and “save.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

It had writing of some kind, though it seems not to have been used much; in any case the script has not been deciphered. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Howard Koch continued writing scripts for The Campbell Playhouse into the spring of 1939. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

The script was like nothing he’d seen before, and yet it was strangely familiar. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

And then there was Ari’s Cakes, with its pretty, pale-blue awning and a wooden sign above it with the store’s name written in white script. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Sides are, according to Libby, selections given to actors at an audition so they don’t have to read the whole script. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think we should use scripts,” the Obscure Object now declared. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Cracking a laptop firewall is ridiculously easy, pure script kiddie stuff. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Not another scrap of the strange script has turned up in the 89 years since its discovery. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He pored over her flowery script as she recounted the happenings of her life. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

“I decided to try writing a movie script.” King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

Inside, in elaborate script: An honest mess is more beautiful than a perfect picture. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“No, Duke. This leap wasn’t in the script. Fred just jumped on a train for no reason. ‘The real Duke would never do anything that dangerous,’ the director said.” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“All right, guys. Hop to it. Pencils out. I want you writing this stuff down in your scripts.” Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Johnson holds up a fist without looking up from her script. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Her script is open on her lap, and she’s got one hand covering some of the lines. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

But tonight some of us are going off script. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

One study suggests that the standard crime news “script” is so prevalent and so thoroughly racialized that viewers imagine a black perpetrator even when none exists. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

This VPN allows us to share the feed from the microphone, images from the session, the real-time script, and all the animation designs amongst all the locations with a simple log-in. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

The throng of reporters, mostly Japanese, wanted a neatly scripted version of the calamity, replete with villains and heroes. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

He lost his lawsuit against Koch when Houseman and Anne Froelick testified that Welles’s role in writing the original script had been minimal. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Aaron Sorkin’s very, very, very wordy screenplay for Steve Jobs was also overlooked, as was Quentin Tarantino’s even wordier script for The Hateful Eight. Oscar nominations 2016 - live coverage 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z

Dinklage likes being surprised when the scripts come in; when I asked if he really didn’t know all the crazy things that will happen to Tyrion in coming seasons, he shrugged. Peter Dinklage Was Smart to Say No 2012-03-31T23:17:15Z

I tried to write the script in '88, after I finished studying cinema in university. Israel's "Lebanon generation" -- in the movies 2010-08-07T01:01:00Z

People read these kinds of stories for the same reason they go to the movies — because they’re curious about how a person shows up in a performance or a script or a shot. Bradley Cooper Is Not Really Into This Profile 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z

Singing also helped Mckenna with the math in the movie script. How actress Mckenna Grace, 10, nailed her movie role as a math whiz 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z

Jones always writes his scripts to music - often just one or two songs blaring from his stereo on constant repeat. Rolin Jones writes a 'big 'ol dumb comedy' 2013-01-23T14:09:10Z

Shooting took place in the UK, US, Mexico, Canada and Germany, without any script, crew or schedule, according to a press release. PJ Harvey contributes two new songs to Mark Cousins documentary 2012-05-17T10:37:33Z

Critics said it lacked the "va-voom" of The Spice Girls and labored under an "insultingly banal" script, poor performances and a gloomy set. Viva was not forever for Spice Girls as London musical closes 2013-05-02T10:22:00Z

Instead of being faithful to the script, she waited to hear Mr. Scorsese’s reaction. The Carpetbagger: Acting Tips from Mrs. Wolf of Wall Street (Hint: Get a Flask) 2013-12-31T16:30:27Z

A dancer starts to address us in English, while her verbatim script is projected on a wall; soon she switches to Japanese, so that most of us are grateful for the English translation. Review: ‘Spectator’ at the Japan Society 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z

Mr. Martin, who also wrote the script, delivers a winning combination of winsomeness and rue, helped considerably by his own drawings, which frequently fill the screen and take on animated life. The Tribeca Film Festival at 15: A Packed Lineup 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z

After my “script” was complete, I talked my high school friends into being in the show and assigned their roles. ‘Grease’ in a Nairobi High School: Saheem Ali on His First Time Directing 2017-02-15T05:00:00Z

Ms. Winer’s entertaining script for the show was filled with personal detail that humanized an imperious figure nicknamed the Dean. Music Review: ‘Jerome Kern: The Song Is You’ at the 92nd Street Y 2013-05-05T21:56:21Z

Four stories from that book were used to make the original movie script. Review: ‘A Christmas Story Live!’ Wasn’t Lively Enough 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z

The cable network is dropping most of its unscripted programs to re-shift its focus to maintaining its power in the scripted arena. AMC backs away from unscripted programming, re-shifts focus to scripted 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z

His one noticeable zinger, “You guys are ducking more questions than Congress,” sounded scripted. With Schwarzenegger as Host, ‘Celebrity Apprentice’ Lacks Old Bite 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z

The more scripts we had the more we figured out who these characters were. Aaron Paul: ‘It’s impossible not to throw our own emotions into the mix’ 2016-04-10T04:00:00Z

Every rose has its thorns for the cast and crew of a “Bachelor”-like dating show in the new scripted drama “UnREAL.” TV This Week, May 31-June 6: 'Pretty Little Liars' and more 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z

After directing so many films featuring teens and young people, Weitz was deluged by young adult books and scripts for possible projects. Chris Weitz talks about his YA novel, 'The Young World' 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z

I wish I needed to provide a spoiler alert, but I don’t think I do: Sarah won’t get the credit she deserves for punching up a script written by a male colleague. She Stayed Silent When a Producer Turned Sexual Predator Went After a Friend 2022-08-14T04:00:00Z

But then he read the script for The Believer and convinced the film's director, Henry Bean, to let him audition. "I didn't set out to be 'the indie guy'" 2011-01-09T00:16:00Z

He also helped modernize the art form by using scripts written in colloquial instead of classical Chinese. World's oldest opera singer dies at age 98 2010-07-17T09:31:00Z

On Tuesday, WGN America officially announced that it would not renew “Underground” for a third season, definitively turning the lights out in the cable channel’s high-end scripted originals department. WGN America cancels “Underground” 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z

The ministry and police said a second raid also conducted Thursday led to the arrest of another six Greeks and stolen antiquities: three prehistoric bronze items, a metal seal and a manuscript with Arabic script. Greek police recover stolen Rubens painting 2011-09-01T16:11:09Z

Kodar was his companion in his later years, and shares script credit on this film. Review: ‘The Other Side of the Wind’ Is Orson Welles’s Haunted Hall of Mirrors 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z

But in giving a cast special license to vary the formula of its script, “Habit” makes us newly aware of this fact of theatrical life. Theater Review: ‘Habit’ at the Essex Street Market, Building B 2012-09-23T21:21:05Z

Their dialogue is too cleanly scripted and their personalities are too rigidly constructed to provide the movie with the loose, insightful credibility it seems to want. | 'Douchebag': Two Brothers on the Road, and One?s Bad Company 2010-09-30T23:04:00Z

He didn’t think it would take much to turn it into a libretto: The script is plain-spoken, concise and naturally musical. A Young Composer Takes On Opera’s Oldest Myth 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z

Bravo, the fishbowl where real housewives, top chefs, and leather-colored real estate agents swim freely, will officially enter the scripted series waters on Dec. 2 when its dramedy "Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce" premieres. 'Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce' boss talks bringing scripted to Bravo's reality circus 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z

Our knowledge of Babylonian comes from written sources, usually clay tablets in cuneiform script. "Eternals" – Marvel consulted me to help superheroes chit chat in Babylonian 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z

To get the script made, “I had to wow people,” he said. The Carpetbagger: Adapting Big Questions for the Screen 2013-12-18T22:44:56Z

Even so, from time to time the staging gets a bit heavy-handed: The production might serve the script better by underplaying some of its fervor. The absurdity of war, center stage, in 'Seven Spots on the Sun' 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z

The screenwriters Matthew Michael Carnahan and Matthew Sand based the script for this film on an article in The New York Times that investigated the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill and industrial disaster. What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘Deepwater Horizon’ and ‘Europa Report’ 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z

When you were writing the script, what audience were you thinking would see this film? Avoiding Sectarian Violence to Tell a Story That Refused to Go Away 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z

The script ropes one of them in to kill Caviezel at the last minute. 2002: When the Rock Went Hollywood and Movie Stars Still Ruled 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z

In February a group of historians organized by a liberal filmmaker, Robert Greenwald, issued a condemnation based on early drafts of scripts obtained by Mr. Greenwald. Dramatizing Camelot 2011-01-17T22:32:30Z

The Mael brothers, who wrote the script as well as the songs, are in the recording studio. ‘Annette’ Review: Love Hurts 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z

Tropper, on the other hand, worked closely with director Shawn Levy at refining the script, even though it took five years of development and nearly 40 drafts. This is the screenwriting secret to adapting "The Fault in Our Stars" 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z

“My Beautiful Laundrette,” a South London love story for which he wrote the script, had been such a success on British television that it was released in cinemas. Philip Roth Versus the Movies 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z

This iteration of the script is said to focus of Adam’s character questioning her happily-ever-after life and accidentally triggering events that upend everyone’s lives. Amy Adams to return for Enchanted sequel 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z

In the midst of writing a script about a woman in search of the meaning of life, she realized she needed a distraction to motivate her. Up Close: Angela Ismailos Recounts the Story of Her Film of 10 Directors 2010-06-30T17:50:00Z

For more fleeting uses of news networks in scripted series, creating a network avoids the need to recruit actual news personalities and to get permissions, while still presenting the veneer of realism. Sorkin?s Newsroom Plans Premiere, Adds to Vast History of Fake TV Networks 2012-02-08T17:27:12Z

The display of heat is all the more remarkable because the script sheds little light on Hays’s inner self. “True Detective,” Reviewed: Clever Chronology Tries to Conceal an Unclever Cop Show 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z

How does he react to things that are not necessarily in that script? "LOTR" stars reunite for "Moriarty," in which Sherlock Holmes' nemesis is "justified in everything" 2022-07-17T04:00:00Z

When I read this script, I thought, “Wow, this dies on whether you believe that they love each other or not. This is key.” Ruth Negga Thinks Lady Macbeth Is Misunderstood 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z

His script features a hint of tension and some dry humor. Review: Juggling ‘Stray Bullets’ and Homework 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z

A mix of reality programming, "Dateline NBC" and at least two hours of scripted shows will be added to fill in the five hours taken up by Leno's prime-time show each week. 2010-01-10T22:29:00Z

In the script, the villain throws some papers up under the rotor blades of a helicopter, and we were told we would have to rewrite that, for safety reasons. ‘The Blacklist’ Draws Up a Novel End to Its Season 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z

Christopher Oscar Peña’s script is sprawling and disjointed, and he clearly plays favorites among his many characters. Theater Review: Cultural Conundrums in ‘a cautionary tail’ at Flea Theater 2013-06-26T17:47:56Z

Her first overly caricaturish moments make plain that the script, the direction and the performers are not on the same page here. Life After Beth first look review – fun zombie premise is dead on arrival 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z

Rising Canadian R&B star the Weeknd goes further than most, however, to tear up this classic script and set light to it, probably with some very high-quality hydroponic rolled up inside. The Weeknd – review 2013-03-31T00:07:00Z

I made notes about my daydreams and include them in my script. "Leonor Will Never Die" filmmaker on how she created her dreamy "action star grandma" 2022-11-26T05:00:00Z

“You weren’t given lines, or a script at Anna Scher. You had to make it up. It was improvisation and it let out a lot of steam.” Daniel Kaluuya: ‘I'm not a spokesman. No one’s expected to speak for all white people’ 2018-02-10T05:00:00Z

When he was given the script, he told director David Lynch: "You have to let me play Frank because I am Frank." Dennis Hopper's Lost Album: life both sides of the lens 2014-06-14T04:00:00Z

The mercurial comedy of Wilder’s flamboyantly aphoristic script shows them to be more or less clueless—except for one thing. The Goofball Criminals of Paul Schrader’s “Dog Eat Dog” 2016-11-12T05:00:00Z

She had to be coaxed into even reading the script. Lorraine Bracco on Goodfellas, therapy, and almost turning down The Sopranos 2017-02-20T05:00:00Z

A recurring refrain among Mr. Malick’s collaborators was the degree to which the script is a mere starting point, extensively revised, even discarded, once shooting begins. Without Ever Showing Up, Malick Is Talk of Cannes 2011-05-16T20:16:10Z

In the script, first one and then the other pulls ahead — on the racetrack, with wealthy sponsors, in the bedroom — until finally they compete for the viewer’s affection. Making a Pit Stop in Formula One With ‘Rush’ 2013-08-28T12:16:47Z

She hates rehearsal periods when actors and directors break down the script and motivation. Olivia Colman: Uneasy Lies the Head That Wears the Crowns 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z

Apparently, Smith was included in the original script as part of a central father-son storyline. Here's Why Will Smith Isn't in the New 'Independence Day' 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z

The directors and actors get the scripts the next morning, rehearse all day and present the plays exactly 24 hours after the process began. Six playwrights, two dozen actors and one day (and night) to make theater: It's 'The 24 Hour Plays' 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z

What was that like for you when you read the script? "Daniel LaRusso felt like someone I knew": Ralph Macchio on the eternal appeal of "The Karate Kid" 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z

Ms. Thompson was until recently an adjunct faculty member at the Tisch School and, according to the Internet Movie Data Base site, has written or co-written 11 scripts. ArtsBeat: At N.Y.U. Film Department, a Faculty Dispute Over a 30-Year-Old Show 2012-08-31T20:57:50Z

Mr. Ferver’s script toys with the Henry James themes of the story line: innocent America corrupted by Europe. Review: An Innocent Abroad (Beware the Boss’s Bite) 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z

He said he despaired of the modern commissioning process where office-bound execs insist on meddling with scripts when they should be putting their faith in talent. TV commissioning is just a bad joke 2013-06-30T17:30:01Z

In its pre-Hays Code sexual daring and droll repartee, It Happened One Night set a rarely reached gold standard for romantic comedy – with a great script by Robert Riskin. Greatest Oscar winners ever: who is the best director of all time? 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z

But the script suggests that in the end they will be O.K. Theater Review: Prepare to Kiss, a Bar Mitzvah Is Coming 2011-08-11T02:30:50Z

You read a million scripts and you are always like the doting girlfriend or the shrewish wife, but always defined by the man. Jennifer Westfeldt: Not just Don Draper's other half… 2012-06-02T23:05:57Z

That way, we can talk about this extraordinary period of scripted dramas and comedies without starting one last argument about where they rank. Perspective | The best TV of the decade? It’s a lot to sort out. 2019-12-28T05:00:00Z

While three of the top four shows this week were scripted, reality TV remains dominant. Skins, The Apprentice, Luther: how Twitter watched TV this week 2013-07-08T13:38:31Z

Not an organic being with a melodic soul, but a flat recording; not an individual capable of lyricism but a mechanism spewing a script. "Succession": The Roy family wails through a loveless karaoke night 2023-04-03T04:00:00Z

The play nearly capsized when some actors in the L.A. production quit after disagreements with the writer over a script that they said was overly sympathetic to Wilson. 'Ferguson' writer wants to take play to Ferguson, Mo., and beyond 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z

There was a project about rickshaw pullers in China, as well as a script he wrote with Babb about San Francisco’s Chinatown, but both ideas were ultimately dropped for lack of financing. James Wong Howe: A Gutsy Cinematographer Finally Gets His Due 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z

A look at the script suggests that this version of “Animal Empire” is one draft of a more ambitious work in progress. When Theatermakers Long for the Stage, Playfully 2021-01-25T05:00:00Z

By the end of the term, my hard drive was littered with raw text files, Python scripts, and data visualizations. Hacking the Humanities 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z

You can see why Sorkin’s script chose to keep Hoffman around even when she wasn’t supposed to be there. Michael Fassbender on playing Steve Jobs: 'Was he flawed? Yeah! We all are' 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z

I just was lucky to have an amazing script, and an amazing character written. “White Lotus” star bids Aloha to a shocking finale: “Privileged, rich people get away with stuff” 2021-08-16T04:00:00Z

GREEN: The scene in which she appears was a comedic scene in the script and we just felt like taking more of a sincere direction with it, just because it felt right. | David Gordon Green, Paul Rudd and Emile Hirsch on Making “Prince Avalanche” 2013-08-07T19:09:21Z

It's literally about nine words in the script. Lee Hall and Opera North: how the story went viral 2011-07-05T12:37:37Z

Godard has a special way of working: There was no script and there were very few people, sometimes just images or music. Isabelle Huppert Doesn’t Watch Her Past Films, but She Will Discuss Them 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z

Studios scoured movie scripts for subversive leftwing messages, and in any other version of 1947 Meg would have been heavily scrutinised. Sex, lies and celluloid: how realistic is Netflix's drama Hollywood? 2020-05-21T04:00:00Z

Though Mr. Scorsese’s recent films — like “Hugo” and “The Aviator” — were faithful to their scripts, it’s not the first time he’s experimented with spur-of-the-moment dialogue. The Carpetbagger: Scenes Not Safe for Work, Even for the Film Editor 2013-12-09T17:42:29Z

The only other truly cutting moment came in an introduction he gave for Hollywood Foreign Press Association president Philip Berg that got funnier the farther he drifted from the script. 2010-01-18T05:46:00Z

Limoncelli's script by necessity shears away some incidents in the novel, such as Vane's ruse of doing academic research as a pretense for her Oxford sojourn. Taproot's 'Gaudy Night' an open-and-shut case of fun for mystery fans 2012-10-02T19:53:04Z

As a paragon of action in a situation where action has little or no meaning, he's the best element in a script that occasionally feels slapdash. 'Keyhole': a mad Maddin adventure 2012-06-14T20:44:05Z

The locale fittingly echoes the script’s central image: a courageous woman musing in a field outside her home. Review | The park setting of ‘In the Middle of the Fields’ is compelling but can’t make up for the sliver of a plot 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z

In its first two hours there are some good things, not least the script, and Waltz is thoroughly engaging as the film's wittiest and most humane character. All that bloody mayhem and we're still supposed to take Django Unchained seriously? 2013-01-25T17:00:01Z

The Farrellys say that the script sat on their shelf for years, when they would occasionally bring it out and read it to friends. The 50 funniest films… chosen by comedians 2016-12-18T05:00:00Z

But again, rather than, you know, just write a new story, producers re-examined their pile of previously unwanted scripts and paraded them in front of Bruce Willis for his approval. The sequel paradox: when studios rewrite movies to fit into a franchise 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z

But overall, performances and thank you speeches stuck to a script focused on music. Latin Grammy organizers asked press not to broach political topics at awards ceremony 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z

Sarah Cubbage’s wonderful costumes — breeches and pompadours mixed with stone-washed tights and sneakers — foreshadowed the gleeful anachronisms and salty modern-day vernacular in Mr. Buggeln’s script. | 'Hater': An Updated ?Misanthrope? at the Ohio Theater 2010-07-22T22:11:00Z

Similarly, while this series sounds like a cooking show, there’s no food; she instead offers a feast of bite-size sketches, dipping into animation, music videos, scripted shorts and mockumentaries. What’s on TV Friday: ‘Dateline’ With Andrea Constand and ‘800 Words’ 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z

They said, “Well, we love Woody, but we have to see the script.” In ‘Blue Jasmine,’ Suzy Benzinger Turns Clothes Into Characters 2013-08-21T20:25:28Z

Peggy, dressed like the Scooby-Doo gang rolled into one, surprises everyone by pulling a classic Don Draper and veering off script. Mad Men Recap: Season 7, Episode 6: "Waterloo" 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z

The playwright is also a nerdy man-boy, and we NMB's all tend to be aware of each other, so he sent me the script because that was the type he was looking for. Ben Feldman on his new play, nerdy man-boys and, yes, the 'Mad Men' nipple thing 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z

Drawing on the script Dickens originally adapted for this purpose, ISC co-founder David Melville re-creates one of those performances, wittily engaging the audience as Dickens even as he conjures up the beloved story. The 99-Seat Beat: A twist on Dickens, a 'Latina Christmas Special' and more 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z

One of the lines Brecht contributed to the script — “Since the people are displeased by the government, the people must be replaced” — was so tart and telling that the film’s financiers cut it. Norman Lloyd: Hitchcock's Saboteur Is a World-Class Raconteur 2012-05-26T23:41:42Z

"The script was intelligent and funny," Stewart said. Patrick Stewart's new roles more down to Earth than sci-fi work 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z

She will direct from a script by Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber, who also adapted Green's "Fault" and upcoming "Paper Towns." Rebecca Thomas to direct adaptation of John Green's 'Looking for Alaska' 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z

In many ways, this is a standard script for the political human zoo that has been the 2016 Republican presidential primary campaign. Fine, just call him the N-word: All the Republicans want to do is say it. Would be more honest if they did 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z

Mr. Sachs described the set as a creative crucible in which he endured a great deal of physical pain from scripts that had him suffering Basil’s wrath. Andrew Sachs, who played hapless waiter Manuel on ‘Fawlty Towers,’ dies at 86 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z

I say I’m an accountant — so they don’t hand me a script. He Gave David Lynch His Start. Now, at 82, He’s a New Director. 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z

Everyone's got the message: it's her script – and don't you forget it. The Secret Actor on writer-performers 2013-06-03T07:59:01Z

He hones his writing skills by reworking classic Disney scripts. ‘Life, Animated,’ by Ron Suskind 2014-05-21T04:00:00Z

His actors are sure of their skills, no matter how indecisive his script. Review: ‘An Ordinary Man’ Stars Ben Kingsley as a War Criminal 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z

I was reading different scripts, trying to find what I really wanted to do. T Magazine: Changing of the Avant-Garde 2011-02-25T20:22:41Z

Better yet, the account claims that the remake is nearly funded – last night it apparently crossed the $150m mark in pledges – which means a script should be imminent. The Last Jedi: what would the $200m fan-funded remake look like? 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z

Oscar-winning writer Christopher Hampton penned the script, which is based on his own play "The Talking Cure." Knightley stars in film on birth of psychoanalysis 2011-09-02T14:29:06Z

Hunnam, best known for the biker TV show "Sons of Anarchy," said he signed on for "Pacific Rim" without even seeing a script. Del Toro offers 'Pacific Rim' glimpse at Comic-Con 2012-07-14T22:26:07Z

And although Riskin did not script the two Capra movies that arguably have held up best — “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” and “It’s a Wonderful Life” — they are heavily indebted to his style and philosophy. Review | Fay Wray and Robert Riskin’s daughter revisits a Hollywood love story 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z

How involved was she at all with oversight with the script? 'Big Eyes' and the Pact Between Writers and Painter 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z

The results are usually effervescent and entertaining, despite the script’s faithfulness to Junie’s odd locution. Review: Junie B. Jones, the Raging Bull of First Grade 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z

The production is somewhat unevenly paced, given a script so keen on rhythms and repetitions. | 'The Dumb Waiter' : ?The Dumb Waiter? at the Duo Theater - Review 2011-10-30T22:54:13Z

One of the things that the script did that I thought was so fascinating was it broadened the possibilities of human experience that were contained in the box. Resurrecting "Hellraiser" Cenobites as part of "an interrogation of how we negotiate our desires" 2022-10-08T04:00:00Z

Did those aspects of the script give you any pause? Danielle Macdonald’s Star Turn in ‘Patti Cake$’ Is the Buzz of Sundance 2017-01-22T05:00:00Z

“I was offered every mob script everywhere in the world, and that was a little frustrating,” she says. Pandemic TV hero Lorraine Bracco on why ‘The Sopranos’ was a quarantine hit and that house in Sicily she bought for a buck 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z

To learn the huge amount of dialogue she spouts on "The Closer," she engages a dramaturge, who also helps her break down scripts. Kyra Sedgwick's Emmys snub is a crime 2010-06-14T03:01:00Z

The novel moves with momentum, told in short chapter bursts, newspaper reports and even scripted dialogue. Judy Blume’s ‘In the Unlikely Event’ 2015-05-25T04:00:00Z

On the catalogue card for Phillips’s first recording session, the box marked “Accomp.”—or accompaniment—contains only the word “Novelty,” written in a steady, loping script. Some of Us Are Haunted by Washington Phillips 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z

On Thursday, Mr. Drew was still performing with script in hand. New York Musical Theater Festival Report: 'Searching for Romeo' 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z

And, he added, film scripts often dealt with themes he couldn’t find in theater texts: “Visconti’s ‘Rocco and his Brothers,’ which I did a few years ago, is a fabulous script about immigration and integration. Coming Soon to a Stage Near You: Yesteryear’s Movies 2018-02-14T05:00:00Z

The process can result in a whole character sent packing, an intermission axed or pages of script inserted, only to be chucked out days later. How Much Does a Play Change During Previews? Just Ask ‘The Perplexed’ 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z

The Globes write the script that the Academy then follows. Why the Golden Globes are still the ones to watch 2012-12-13T15:27:14Z

Weaving some of the Bard's text into the script, Carey lets virtually all of the characters do some California dreaming, envisioning how they would rebuild their now drastically reduced state to their own liking. Cornerstone Theater Company gives local flavors to Shakespeare 2014-09-27T04:00:00Z

The majority wrote to script, casting the man in Miraflores as tinpot dictator or socialist saviour. Hugo Chávez: the best books on the late Venezuelan leader 2013-03-07T15:25:53Z

That’s not in the script, and I thought that was incredibly important, to show that physically in some way. My mentally ill sister 2012-06-02T00:00:00Z

These days, I alternate between writing scripts and writing about the theater. Your First Theater Crush 2013-08-21T16:24:20Z

With Petranilla, I just really used the script and the book, which was so large and meaty. Cynthia Nixon turns villain in Follett's "World Without End" 2012-10-16T18:22:57Z

Directed by May Adrales, “Letters of Suresh” is, as the title suggests, an epistolary play, with a script composed entirely of letters. ‘Letters of Suresh’ Review: Returning to the Fold 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z

She said she pleaded with the show’s producers to change that part of the script. ‘Three Pines,’ Based on Louise Penny Books, Tackles Indigenous Suffering 2023-01-03T05:00:00Z

A superior performer would certainly have been under-stretched by the vacuous script and the long sections where nothing happens of any consequence. I've never seen … Top Gun 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z

Jones' script calls for two-dimensional cardboard cutouts serving as characters, everyone pantomime skating on a track, and plenty of sex jokes. Rolin Jones writes a 'big 'ol dumb comedy' 2013-01-23T14:09:10Z

The actors fit plausibly, if flashily, within the limits of the script, they lend the mechanisms of the story life, but what they don’t do is exist. Jodie Foster's Boring and Exciting “Money Monster” 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z

If the increasingly power-addicted Cromwell feels more sinned against than sinning here, with a script that spells out his psychological motivation, Mr. Miles still conveys the essential intent watchfulness. Theater Review: Royal Shakespeare Company Adapts 2 Hilary Mantel Novels 2014-01-22T22:33:43Z

“I know there are people who are disappointed that we didn’t use a South African actress,” Karen Jeynes, who wrote the script, said during a recent conversation at a seafront coffee spot here. ‘Recipes for Love and Murder’ That Are to Die For 2022-09-05T04:00:00Z

Sure, the dialogue shares a similar rat-a-tat rhythm to the arch, stylised scripts of New Girl and, like Girls, there are plenty of awkward scenes to cringe at. Mindy Kaling: 'My biggest challenge is being frequently underestimated' 2013-03-22T14:00:00Z

If I don't have a script I adore, I do the one I like. Sidney Lumet dies aged 86 2011-04-09T15:44:58Z

To appeal to Dickey, he sent her the script and a long letter about his admiration for her work. Dale Dickey takes center stage at Sundance in ‘A Love Song’ 2022-01-22T05:00:00Z

Might I, too, refuse lucrative romantic lead roles till better scripts come along? Review | Matthew McConaughey is ‘alright, alright, alright’ — and thinks you will be too 2020-10-18T04:00:00Z

According to multiple "All Rise" writers, some preliminary versions of the script, which sources say Spottiswood worked on with Nelson, mentioned a crime committed with a machete by members of a Latinx gang. "He made their lives miserable": How the showrunner of a popular courtroom drama finally got fired 2021-05-12T04:00:00Z

"When the 500-page script arrived I remember I got this call from Steven, and he's like, 'What are we going to do?'" The Carpetbagger: From a Chance Meeting, 'Lincoln' Emerges 2013-01-29T22:35:33Z

And that’s when it hit me, if I could rewrite this script, I could use this clever device to actually make a movie that wasn’t straight horror. The Script Secrets of Gillian Flynn, John Krasinski, Barry Jenkins and Christopher McQuarrie 2019-01-01T05:00:00Z

Moss had already read the first three Top of the Lake scripts and fallen in love with the project, but feared her chances of landing the role were slim. Elisabeth Moss: 'How I found my inner tough guy' 2013-07-02T17:12:01Z

In the script it was written in as "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow." Behind the scenes of "Fire Island," from filming sexy rain encounters to endearing dance-offs 2022-06-12T04:00:00Z

There is much reading aloud in his script, and much rehashing of old memories, many of which Ann claims not to recall. Review: ‘If Only’ Links Lincoln to an Unlikely Match 2017-08-27T04:00:00Z

They say they submitted their screenplay to the William Morris Agency, which discussed Tarantino as a possible collaborator, and that the overlap of ideas and characters from their script goes beyond coincidence. Quentin Tarantino faces $100m copyright claim over Django Unchained 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z

The script, which Parker re-wrote with the original writer, Christopher Gore, doesn’t shy away from showing the seedier side for those hoping to break into showbiz. An oral history of Fame: 'We were dancing on cars in the epicentre of porn and filth!' 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z

It was different from something I played before, and I thought the script had some humor in it. A Word With: James Gandolfini: Once Tough Guy, Now Nurturer 2010-10-26T21:33:00Z

“We read her script, we were part of developing that script, we thought it was great,” Bono said of the version that critics ripped to shreds in February. Superstars Never Guessed the Size of ?Spider-Man? Challenges 2011-06-13T22:15:25Z

At the same time, Cobb’s earnest, reasoned script slashes so precisely that you may not see Shakespeare — and a lot of roles played by black performers — quite the same way for a while. Review | After ‘American Moor,’ you may not see Shakespeare — and a lot of roles played by black actors — quite the same way 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z

With only the framework of a script, she was extra dependent on her actors to deliver. The Carpetbagger: Lynn Shelton Offers a Thank-You to Sundance 2012-01-21T19:00:02Z

He usually wrote scripts in hotels there and I went with him. Sofia Coppola: 'Is this psychoanalysis?' 2010-12-01T21:30:00Z

He needs work, but the only project on offer is a terrible script about the time in 1922 when Mansfield and Rainer Maria Rilke were in the same Swedish town. In ‘Spring,’ Ali Smith’s Series Takes Its Most Political Turn 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z

She recalled that her agent initially sent her scripts for the first three episodes to gauge her interest. ‘Hijack,’ With Idris Elba, Is a Throwback Thriller 2023-06-27T04:00:00Z

I made a commitment to myself that I would never do a job without reading the script first. Mark Ruffalo on Spotlight: ‘The whole of Boston was complicit. Everybody looked the other way’ 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z

It has a soothing script: unity, reconciliation and — as anchors must have intoned a billion times — “the peaceful transition of power.” Mr. Reality TV Goes to Washington 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z

Byrne's video installations are neither theatre nor documentary, although he uses actors and takes his scripts from events that actually happened. Video artist Gerard Byrne: the great pretender 2013-01-17T06:30:01Z

A script from each country was chosen, and Spacey starred in and helped produce the three films, including South African Alan Shelley's "A Spirit of a Denture," which was given a red-carpet premiere in Johannesburg. Kevin Spacey debuts South African short film 2012-05-13T11:46:08Z

The resulting scripts were made available for anyone in the world to download and present for free for one week, and about 75 groups took part in that inaugural effort. ArtsBeat: Short Plays From Edinburgh Fringe to Run Off Broadway 2012-11-29T19:37:21Z

While the script yanks our emotions, crucial legal decisions are sidelined or relegated to a vague coda when audiences are likely to be shuffling to the exits. Review: Fighting to Save Her ‘Little Pink House’ 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z

Gunn was behind the first two Guardians of the Galaxy Marvel movie hits and had been working on the script for the third. Dave Bautista defends fired Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn 2018-07-21T04:00:00Z

Mr. Graham assembled that testimony into the London version of the script, which also included satirical versions of themselves, a slightly paranoid playwright and a somewhat pushy director. Is Nothing Secret? Daniel Radcliffe and the Art of ‘Privacy’ 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z

In October it announced it was largely scrapping the effort to re-shift its focus on scripted originals. Bravo and E! networks take the plunge into scripted TV programming 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z

In late 2019, “The Hang” had turned into an ensemble piece, and he sent a preliminary script to Ray, who had arranged the songs in “A 24-Decade History.” Taylor Mac’s ‘Fever Dream’: Exploring the Philosophy of the Hang 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z

Director Timothy Douglas sustains a righteous, inquisitive tone that brings out the best in Ham’s script. Review | ‘Nina Simone’ raises a fist at Arena Stage 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z

The New Jersey film and television commission said reality shows must obtain child labor permits, as do scripted shows. Reality TV kids perform without a safety net 2010-06-28T03:57:00Z

James McBride and I co-wrote the script, and this is the story I wanted to tell about this neighborhood—Red Hook. Watch: Spike Lee Talks Red Hook Summer and the 4 Million Stories He Has Left To Tell 2012-08-10T12:00:22Z

A record 455 original scripted series aired last year, and by the time 2017 comes to a close that tally is expected to top 500. It’s the Golden Age of TV. And Writers Are Paying the Toll. 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z

Preparing to direct, Mr. Schamus reverse engineered the script: For every scene, he and his production team pulled similar scenes from other movies, studying the camera movements, the coverage and the blocking. James Schamus, a Hollywood Honcho, Takes on Directing 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z

The script had no shortage of similar real-world examples to draw from when it was written. Fox’s ‘Accused’ Is a Law Show, Not in the Usual Order 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z

The series' trademark charm returns here, exuded by the script, voice acting and visuals, making this a wonderfully accessible and engaging game that requires no dexterity whatsoever. This week's new games 2010-10-22T23:07:00Z

“Every single one of the people I interviewed,” Dawkins said, “has the script, and has had drafts of it since late summer.” ‘Spamtown, USA’ Looks at a Bitter Strike Through Children’s Eyes 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z

“That scene wasn’t in the original script. The truth is, it was Marlon who came up with the idea,” Ms. Schneider said. Revisted ‘Last Tango in Paris’ Rape Scene Causes Internet Outcry 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z

Apparently, Ford said the script to the sequel is the “best thing he’s ever read.” Harrison Ford Will Once Again Be Rick Deckard 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z

It makes for difficult viewing, but Myers’s intelligent script is attuned to the difficulties of re-establishing trust and love within these precarious relationships. Offbeat Streaming: ‘Knock Knock,’ ‘John Lewis’ and ‘Sleight’ 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z

He was the first writer to outline the three-act script paradigm followed by many TV and film writers today. Renowned Screenwriter Syd Field Dies 2013-11-18T16:52:40Z

In an era where most wrestling fans over the age of 12 understand that the winners are predetermined and the story lines scripted, modern wrestlers must consistently invent new ways to capture the audience’s attention. ‘Heels’ Is a Family Drama, With Body Slams 2021-08-13T04:00:00Z

The actors loved the integration of music into the script and the filming. For Edgar Wright, ‘Last Night in Soho’ is a dark valentine 2021-09-04T04:00:00Z

Premium cable has long reigned as the main stage for most scripted drama poker tournaments, purely as a matter of show. How "The Boys" measures up with regard to TV's full frontal assault 2022-06-12T04:00:00Z

His single-page script is concise, and it asks customers to be open-minded. Tom Sietsema reviews Parts & Labor in Baltimore

TIME: You decided to pursue the role of the villain Lucille instead of the heroine Edith when you were first presented with the script. Jessica Chastain on How Crimson Peak Will Change the Way We View Women in Movies 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z

Tarantino said he “really, really likes” the idea and will work on punching up the script himself after he’s done promoting “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.” Quentin Tarantino rips Simon Pegg for acting like he knows R-rated "Star Trek" details 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z

You may or may not be surprised to learn that there are websites that discuss Allen's choice of Windsor in the kind of detail that's as intense as his scripts. Windsor is just Woody Allen's type 2011-04-05T19:00:00Z

Everyone is a character in everyone else's script in this intricately plotted novel, however minor the role. Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter – review 2013-06-01T14:45:02Z

“The refined beauties of ambiguity,” Bernstein wrote in a graceful pencil script on the title page of Mahler’s Symphony No. 9. Mahler Said What to Whom? 2011-02-03T22:00:06Z

And Furnace Reading Series, the Mahogany Project, Live Girls! and Macha Monkey focus on new works by women, and New City is a veteran introducer of scripts by Ki Gottberg and others. Move over, coffee: It's playwrights' day in the sun in Seattle 2012-09-05T22:38:04Z

A lot of Zoom calls like this, whether it's interviews, talking about scripts, different things, a lot of things to be excited about. "I'd play the s**t out of George Washington": Jimmy O. Yang talks representation & his Amazon debut 2020-05-08T04:00:00Z

It's certainly not to be found in Elliot's rote script in which every character has been etched in highlighter, leaving it to the actors to do all the detailing. Queen Latifah drops ball in "Just Wright" 2010-05-10T04:16:00Z

“Procession” follows the men as they help one another brainstorm and shoot five scripted scenes based on their experiences. ‘Procession’ Review: Art as Exorcism 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z

The character is far more developed in Lee’s script, and the character’s body is as central to the action in Lee’s film as in Gunn’s. Spike Lee’s Vampiric Remake 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z

“The Loudest Voice” is one of many rage-fueled works enveloping us today; that it is scripted doesn’t matter. Fox News mastermind Roger Ailes, sleazy and malevolent, still haunts us in "The Loudest Voice" 2019-06-30T04:00:00Z

The script was in English, and so were the rehearsals. Starring Nebbishes and Noodges, Yiddish Cinema Makes a Comeback 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z

Without spoiling Gene’s backstory, what was your reaction to reading the script and finding out how he got to be the way he is? Christopher Meloni: Playing Gene in the "Wet Hot" Prequel 'Was Like Going Home' 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z

The bleak, rigorous cynicism of the script is matched perfectly by Mr. Edgerton’s ruthless cinematic discipline. | 'The Square': Sin and Comeuppance in Film Noir From Down Under 2010-04-09T01:45:00Z

The “Blight” script, from Pinky Swear Productions, gets space to breathe at the Anacostia Playhouse, and at times Bavoso’s script smartly hits the mark of how personal our politics have become. Review | A new play and a vintage satire reflect factional frenzy 2018-10-28T04:00:00Z

The script also had to capture the particular absurdity of the luxury fashion world and Balenciaga’s stature in that world — something that can’t be absorbed on Wikipedia. Homer Simpson Was Made for Fashion 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z

She seems to have inherited the artistic bent; in her spare time, she writes scripts for some quite funny, X-rated “Seinfeld” episodes. ‘Among the Ten Thousand Things’: A family torn apart by infidelity 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z

DASLs collaborate with American Sign Language interpreters who specialize in theater, translating the script into ASL and establishing how to perform the signing — while staying true to the spirit of a show. How These Sign Language Experts Are Bringing More Diversity to Theater 2023-01-07T05:00:00Z

Daryl and Zoe are talented actors and filmmakers with a fine script, but they are starting off with a disadvantage because they are not recognizable.” Film: Tiny-Budget Adventures of ?Breaking Upwards? 2010-03-26T20:40:00Z

A couple months later he called me with the “Maria/Stuart” script, and a year after that I became a company member. Actors Emily Townley and Dawn Ursula talk about ‘The Totalitarians’ and D.C. theater life

Baffled by the ropey script and chintzy production, audiences stayed away to the tune of $14m – less than a quarter of Superman III’s gross. Can Wonder Woman save Hollywood from its problem with female superheroes? 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z

Even if it's a fully scripted show, improv got me the job. Andrea Savage on "I'm Sorry" season 2: "Your whole life turns to s**t when your kid learns to read" 2019-01-13T05:00:00Z

Earlier this year, Lord & Taylor attempted a similar kind of rebrand through getting rid of its famous handwritten script logo. Lord & Taylor Returns to New York — Sort of! 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z

In a subsequent script, titled “The Other Side of the Wind,” the bullfighter becomes a young actor, whom the director, Jake Hannaford, has discovered, tormented, and driven away. How Orson Welles’s “The Other Side of the Wind” Was Rescued from Oblivion 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z

Holland said he still needs to read the Astaire script, which just came in a week ago. Tom Holland’s next dance: Playing Fred Astaire 2021-12-05T05:00:00Z

Without her script, the former vice presidential candidate and bestselling author got ... poetic. With no teleprompter, Sarah Palin gets poetic 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z

“You cast, write the script, set design, find the right actors, people you care about, have them say the right things, find locations, the right stove for the kitchen,” he said. James Stevenson, Ex-New Yorker Illustrator, Dies at 87 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z

The Disney version doesn't have a script yet, although that could change quickly if the studio seals a deal with "Bourne Ultimatum" scribe Scott Z. Burns. Two "20,000 Leagues" films in the works 2010-05-17T06:51:00Z

“It was just panic to get a script made,” he said. Arts & Leisure: Building Suspense With Ti West and ?The Innkeepers? 2012-01-20T16:14:33Z

Like the war veteran and Zin-mi’s robotically upbeat teacher and everyone else we encounter, they are performers, dutifully following a script. Meet North Korea’s perfect family: Totalitarianism, Trump and the politics of non-thought 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z

That tendency is what Buckley explains when she describes attending script analysis class “religiously” with acting guru Stella Adler in the 1970s. Betty Buckley steps into ‘Hello, Dolly!’ to ‘make America happy again’ 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z

“Our Town” I prefer reading plays to books or scripts. Zoey Deutch Enjoys ‘The Joy of Cooking’ and the Occasional Tracksuit 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z

Falk didn’t explain, and it wasn’t in the script, but by the end of the shoot, the underwear turned out to be a clever clue. Walter Grauman, prolific television director, dies at 93 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z

Driven to create a script with minimal cinematic elements, Mensch began developing a story around Snowden and his solitary life. 'Nightingale' tested David Oyelowo's commitment as an actor 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z

It follows the episode from the Tuesday morning pitch meeting in the office of creator Lorne Michaels, through the table read when players recite their scripts and dress rehearsal, and finally to the live show. James Franco's 'SNL' doc plays at Tribeca Fest 2010-05-03T01:30:00Z

Born in the Parisian suburbs, Sciamma wrote the script for her first film, Water Lilies, while she was still at school. Céline Sciamma: 'In France, they don’t find the film hot. They think it lacks flesh, it’s not erotic' 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z

The script is also said to include an explanation for the height at which Cowell wears his trousers. Spoof X Factor musical has a title: I Can't Sing! 2013-05-23T10:47:46Z

We had his script with his name on it. A Minute With: Johnny Depp and his "Rum Diary" 2011-10-26T09:13:19Z

Even its star, Ethan Hawke — speaking to us as himself in two brief scenes that bookend the movie — admits that, initially, he didn’t understand Ferrara’s script. ‘Zeros and Ones’ Review: Plague and Paranoia 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z

His banter is stilted, the scripts are eye–rollingly leaden, his photography is terrible and it's not funny, but there's something homely and vaguely comforting about it nonetheless. TV highlights 04/03/2013 2013-03-04T07:00:00Z

Instead, she began working in film development, reading scripts for the British Film Institute and Film 4. Simon Pegg: ‘I find it very hard to write for women’ 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z

He then posted pages of a script that used the Deadpool character — who is known for speaking to readers or moviegoers directly — to think through the cancellation. Donald Glover Publishes Spoof ‘Deadpool’ Script After Exiting Series 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z

Disney’s only major restriction on applicants, in the words of a spokeswoman: “Please, please don’t send us scripts.” Disney Plans to Encourage Digital Start-Ups 2014-02-12T20:36:58Z

Was the toothpick in the script, or was that something that you brought to it? Actor David Thewlis on the ‘Fargo’ Season Finale, V.M. Varga and Greed 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z

It was during the Christmas holiday of 2021, when Russell had volunteered to cook dinner for the children’s three sets of grandparents, that she received the scripts for “The Diplomat.” In ‘The Diplomat,’ Keri Russell Shows Her Good Side 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z

I hope you will like it in its present costume as you did when it was still in script. Treasures: Author's note trumps all else 2010-12-07T17:06:00Z

“I was so angry … you can’t force someone to do something that isn’t in the script, but at the time, I didn’t know that,” she said. Bertolucci’s justification for the Last Tango rape scene is bogus. It’s called ‘acting’ for a reason | Jessica Tovey 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z

Last, the Daily Beast obtained a version of the script and wrote that it “pushes conspiracy theories and lies,” which the producers deny. The ‘Roe v. Wade’ movie has an all-star conservative cast and a bone to pick with the media 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z

It was one of the strangest scripts I’d ever seen, because it was like a really long comic book. ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’: The Oral History of a Modern Action Classic 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z

It wasn’t a sex scene in the script. Robert Pattinson and Director David Cronenberg on Cars, Cosmopolis and Fans Who Care 2012-08-14T20:48:47Z

Playwright and television writer Rolin Jones of Woodland Hills wrote the script for the show. Billie Joe Armstrong musical coming to Geffen Playhouse in September 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z

“We came back in with a much improved script,” Mr. Burns said. Amy Stechler, Documentarian Who Helped Define a Style, Dies at 67 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z

We only considered doing the script because the script was as funny, if not funnier, than the first one. Inbetweeners end their journey Down Under 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z

With such a flimsy story and no attempt at psychological realism, the script cries out for more jokes. Cannibal Women of Mars – review 2013-07-11T17:57:00Z

Free of a script, he said, the actors can engage in creative banter while the cameras keep rolling. ?Like Crazy? Was Filmed Without a Script 2011-10-23T01:03:02Z

In the early 2000s, it tended to be tightly scripted and performed behind a strictly observed fourth wall. From sketches to standup: the great escape 2011-08-08T20:30:02Z

“I saw him more vulnerable than the script suggested ... so he would have some dimension and some humanity.” Plummer brings on the charm in reshot 'All the Money in the World' 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z

The script’s clichés are nearly as confining to the performers as South African jails were to the Mandelas; but Hudson, slimmed down and in close-cropped hair, finds an urgent sisterhood with Winnie. Mandela in the Movies: 10 Films About Apartheid 2013-12-06T21:21:59Z

Parts of his psyche inevitably seep into his scripts, and that includes “Penny Dreadful.” John Logan Comes to TV With Showtime’s ‘Penny Dreadful’ 2014-05-09T21:52:11Z

Honestly, I would love to collaborate with her on everything if possible and that's why we wrote this script together so we have another chance. Dave Franco shares your Airbnb anxieties in new horror flick "The Rental," starring wife Alison Brie 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z

Sometimes characters in the script were not as cool as I wanted them to be. Legendary Creature Creator Rick Baker Talks Aliens and Men in Black 3 2012-05-24T10:45:45Z

From the tone of the script I read at the audition, I didn’t know this was a horror movie. How we made A Nightmare on Elm Street 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z

Hollywood also seems to have rubbed off on producers' efforts to keep forthcoming plot details secret, with cast members revealing scripts have to be "shredded and burned" once memorised in true blockbuster style. The Downton Abbey 'phenomenon' 2012-09-09T23:16:39Z

The following day will see a reading of Hall's script for a film version of George Orwell's book Down And Out In Paris And London. Elliot and Monty writers team up 2013-12-11T18:55:24Z

Price said had only two weeks to create the production of four evening and one matinee performances from scratch, when he would usually expect four weeks and to start with a finished script. Gruff Rhys album in 'secret' launch 2013-05-02T07:04:03Z

Then I read the script and thought, ah, not that kind of vicar's wife. Olivia Colman in Rev 2010-06-19T23:05:00Z

This film also completely rewrites the traditional script about U.S. military support in Afghanistan. Matthew Heineman’s documentary "Retrograde": A chilling, intimate view of the Afghanistan War's end 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z

Here’s the commercial script posted by The Detroit Free Press: I am always happy to see the nation pausing to remember the struggle that cities like Detroit are going through, but It’s halftime. Clint Eastwood and Chrysler: The Politics of a Car Commercial 2012-02-06T18:02:14Z

He remembered that his other grandfather read a newspaper written in Aljamiado, which used Arabic script to transcribe Spanish. My House in Cairo 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z

Taking bold creative liberties with a script is rarely a productive impulse, especially for a company with no track record. For a new Hollywood theater company, the Holocaust drama 'Bent' proves overly ambitious 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z

The script contains just enough “Wag the Dog” absurdism to keep things in perspective. Review: ‘Who’s Your Baghdaddy?,’ on the Difference Between Credible and Reliable Intelligence 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z

In the long run, the potential to expose producers, financiers and agents to a script is "enormous," Coles said, noting the wonders it could do for regional theater groups. Global artist group LoNyLA hones work via webcasts 2011-06-28T18:41:33Z

De Palma has also written the scripts for many of his films, but Keesey could have done a better job of helping us keep track of who did what. ‘Brian De Palma’s Split-Screen’ review: A long-awaited reassessment 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z

I'm not blaming anyone, but the script wasn't even done when we started that movie, and it was all over the place. 2009-12-31T19:51:00Z

A prolific science-fiction author, Brackett kept writing scripts — notably Hawks’s “Rio Bravo” — and turned in the first draft of “The Empire Strikes Back” just before she died at age 62 in 1978. You Know These 20 Movies. Now Meet the Women Behind Them 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z

His Burning Secret screenplay bears the stamp of the script department of MGM. Lost Stanley Kubrick screenplay, Burning Secret, is found 60 years on 2018-07-15T04:00:00Z

She knew the basics of the script, having been part of a reading of the musical in 2016 during its development, and immediately got to work by memorizing her lines even before her contract began. That New ‘Mean Girls’ Teacher Has Homework to Do 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z

He said recently “a white guy sent me a script that was all Asian characters, and I was like, oh, it must be in vogue!” A Vision of Asian-American Cinema That Questions the Very Premise 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z

Stevens, who includes a section of the script in his book, is right to say that the duo are not yet keen for The Day Off to be made. Revealed: Tony Hancock screenplay that the troubled star turned down 2011-08-27T22:38:26Z

The script was nearly 30 years in the making for Carter, a longtime producer of the HBO talk show “Real Time With Bill Maher.” Jefferson, Dickens and Tolstoy walk into a church basement . . . 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z

His prodigious output also includes film scripts, plays and features for The New Yorker, where he’s a longtime writer. In ‘God Save Texas,’ Lawrence Wright Ranges Far and Wide 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z

As I rewrote, I noticed the script was starting to evolve. 'Peep Show with female losers? Bring it on!' – Sam Bain on why comedy needs diversity 2019-05-25T04:00:00Z

“I wish I had the script so I could recall why the heck we ever let that one in,” he wrote in his memoir. William G. Clotworthy, ‘Saturday Night Live’ Censor, Dies at 95 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z

Mr. Allen spent his Saturday afternoons reading from scripts that described the messy entanglements of opera. Peter Allen, a Voice on the Radio for the Met Opera, Dies at 96 2016-10-09T04:00:00Z

Stuffed full of topical comedy, the show's writers actually left gaps in the script, which would be filled at the last minute to cover the week's news. Six to watch: workplace comedies 2011-08-04T14:08:03Z

Many critics say that this ending upholds the value of human life, but that's not quite what the script says, is it? The harmful messaging of "It's a Wonderful Life" 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z

It was a disaster – I think I've destroyed all copies of the script. Howard Brenton, playwright – portrait of the artist 2013-07-02T18:00:00Z

Schechter received the master's approval for this project after he wrote the entire script on spec, so it's no surprise that "Life of Crime" has the authentic Leonard snap, crackle and pop. 'Life of Crime' is true to mayhem and humor of Elmore Leonard 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z

So many scripts I would read – and I still find this to be the case – whenever there was a teenager, it just does not sound remotely like a teenager. Molly Ringwald Recalls John Hughes 2010-09-17T15:46:00Z

The first time one of the shows veered off that script, it notably did so with two White, blond women. Perspective | The 20 defining moments of 20 years of ‘The Bachelor’ 2022-03-14T04:00:00Z

What were your thoughts when you read the script for the very first time? “She has her own strength that was so empowering”: Priya Kansara talks "Polite Society" sisterhood 2023-04-29T04:00:00Z

The same cannot be said about the script in this adult "Home Alone," complete with some fairly grisly booby traps. A ranking of bad Santas, from naughty to vice 2022-12-13T05:00:00Z

The quintet of writers who receive script credit include guys who had worked on Star Trek, The Proposal, Lost, Alias and the and Mission: Impossible series. Cowboys & Aliens: Two Great Genres, One Mediocre Movie 2011-07-28T22:05:00Z

But phenomenal as all these programmes undoubtedly are, I feel the need to remind the more rabid fans of edgy American TV shows that the Brits have been making equally superbly scripted TV for decades. The debate: Can British TV produce drama as good as Mad Men? 2010-07-24T23:06:00Z

Having such close ties to the scripts heads off performance-rights issues, but it’s also in keeping with the idea of Canadian pride, which will be on flagrant display during the Soulpepper run. Here’s One Canadian Theater Company That Isn’t Afraid to Show Off 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z

I return home to New York intermittently, to switch gowns and change scripts. A ‘Girl Singer’ and Her Extra Hair Hit the Road 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z

My manager called and said: “Wait until you read this script. I’ve never seen anything like this.” How the First ‘Bad Santa’ Boozed Down the Chimney 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z

"Another of the actors was always wisecracking and telling jokes, just like the character in the script." Street casting: the next big thing 2011-02-10T22:15:01Z

“And then at the end of the episode, there was a break and I was like, ‘Why don’t you send me the next script? Here's How Emilia Clarke Reacted When She Saw Danaerys Would Meet Tyrion 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z

Which brings us to September 2005, when he began shooting “Margaret” in New York City from a script that ran to roughly three hours of screen time. Kenneth Lonergan’s Thwarted Masterpiece 2012-06-19T19:43:37Z

“The Bible” will not be a documentary representation; it will be a scripted, acted drama. Next for ?Survivor? Producer: Bible-Based Scripted Drama 2011-05-24T04:11:21Z

Birbiglia reread George Orwell’s “Animal Farm” while researching the script and wrote a phrase on his wall for inspiration: “Art is socialism but life is capitalism.” When ‘Saturday Night Live’ takes your comedy partner, how do you feel? 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z

But they illustrate how Amazon is refining its approach to original scripted content, which is increasingly important to attracting new members to its Prime membership program. Amazon's path to TV success takes cues from old school Hollywood 2015-01-10T05:00:00Z

Working from a script by Michael Werwie, Garbus keeps the focus on Mari even as her search continues and other characters crowd the scene, often in tears. ‘Lost Girls’ Review: Honoring the Gone Girls, With Sorrow and Rage 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z

Prupas argued that History Channel backed away from "The Kennedys" long after executives at the U.S. channel read and approved scripts, and screened the final cuts on all episodes. Shaw Media stands by decision to air "Kennedys" 2011-01-11T20:45:31Z

But scripts about cheating and its consequences continued to flourish, in hues frivolous, somber and — modern morality being muddy — somewhere in between. London Stages, Full of Cheating Hearts 2013-07-18T12:00:01Z

Billed as a “dance/drama/video/interactive technology work,” it features direction, choreography, script and video by Lesser. 54 Dance Programs, Festivals and More Coming This Fall 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z

We’ve got the right theater for it, the right team, the right cast, hopefully the right marketing plan, and a beautiful script. ?Next Fall? Tries to Do Broadway on a Budget 2010-03-21T21:41:00Z

Under some seats are copies of a script, each with a different role highlighted in yellow. ‘We Are Still Watching,’ by Ivana Müller, Compels Participation 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z

The show's creator, Chuck Lorre, left the script for the pilot episode on Faris' doorstep with no note attached. Anna Faris talks about the joys of being 'Mom' [video] 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z

Ad-libbing his way through the script, fine-tuning the funniness, he feeds off the energy of the crowd at the Nederlander Theater. Review: Billy Crystal Carries the Tune in ‘Mr. Saturday Night’ 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z

There are also more established artists playing Block Party, for whom the script is pretty much written. Capitol Hill Block Party 2012: break outs and sure things 2012-07-19T14:01:12Z

This script has all the depth of a manhole cover. 'Immortals': powerful Greek gods in weak tale 2011-11-09T23:42:03Z

The sleepy script badly needs more visual wit. | 'The Little Prince': ?The Little Prince? at New Victory Theater - Review 2011-10-07T00:15:32Z

Directors, actors, script editors and security guards all queuing up for their lunch. Abi Morgan on a golden TV year 2012-05-19T23:04:24Z

About the waves, Mr. Finnegan tells us, “I realized I was seeing long German words in Gothic script, Arbeiterpartei and Oberkommando and Weltanschauung and Götterdämmerung, marching incongruously across the warm gray walls.” Review: ‘Barbarian Days,’ by William Finnegan, Details a Surfer’s Pilgrimage 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z

The second, “An Encounter,” seated two strangers across a table, separated by glass and following a script. At Under the Radar, Stories Unfold via Sexts, Tweets and Puppeteers 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z

So she put those stories into a script, which she finished in 2008 but put aside after taking a job warming up audiences at a daytime talk show. Talking with Dena Blizzard: How She Became ‘One Funny Mother’ 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z

She described how he would cough as a signal to keep them on script, backing up his denials, she said. Witness: R. Kelly controlled girlfriends during CBS segment 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z

“I said to them, give me three months to write this script, and then, if it doesn’t work out, if I can’t sell it, I’ll get a proper job.” Simon Pegg: ‘I find it very hard to write for women’ 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z

And another of his rom-com scripts was recently made into the film “Stepping into Love.” His movie scripts were rejected for 40 years. His Christmas film just aired on Lifetime. 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z

A blurry figure walks in the distance, eventually covered by pages and pages of scrolling script, as we listen to the evocative Ahom language of India. Dying Languages Cry Out in ‘Last Whispers’ 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z

The script is conversant in the online language of whatever we’ve chosen to call the generation succeeding the millennials, and it recognizes Instagram as their combination podium, proscenium and proving ground. Double screening: how Hollywood embraced Instagram 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z

But this was scripted, and in typical Death Cab for Cutie fashion everything was mild, earnest and professional. Death Cab for Cutie's experimental "You Are a Tourist" video: what is it? 2011-04-06T17:00:09Z

When it came to the script, he wrestled with the idea of altering history. 'Frank' Riffs on the Pop Curiosity Frank Sidebottom 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z

Charlottesville, he says, was “unfortunately, like a confirmation” of what their script was already warning of. ‘We’re still fighting that same fight’: how Spike Lee got his groove back with BlacKkKlansman 2018-08-18T04:00:00Z

Alexandra Petri of the Washington Post even wrote a hilarious fake movie script that incorporates all the tropes of movies about geniuses. Blame Male Geniuses for Hollywood's Diversity Problem 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z

He was in the slant of his spidery script. Surreal Encounters in Ralph Ellison’s ‘Invisible Man’ 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z

Is it that hard to find good comedy scripts? Jason Bateman: ‘My dirty secret? Playing the straight man. Because he gets to be in every scene’ 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z

Never giving up the career, Anand released his latest film, "Chargesheet," just a few months ago and was reportedly working on another script when he died. Indian film star Dev Anand dies in London at 88 2011-12-04T11:16:04Z

The greater challenge, perhaps, is finding theatrical ways to incorporate the novel’s philosophical themes without making the script didactic. Hopelessly romantic: ‘Frankenstein’ at Book-It 2014-02-07T21:39:52Z

He uses sunken treasures to finance a film starring his four favorite enemies, who sign on despite having no script because of financial troubles. The Sub-Mariner Turns 80. He’s Still Super. 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z

“James really knew what he wanted to make and from the pitch to the script to the pre-production, it never deviated,” said producer Charles Roven. Director James Gunn assembles his perfect ‘Suicide Squad’ 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z

Bosch does an impressive job of pulling together the stories she and her assistants found while researching the script. 'The Round Up': The Nazi threat in Paris, through the eyes of 3 children 2011-03-24T22:23:13Z

Would you have thought twice if it’d been a different sort of script — one that depicted the actual crimes rather than the investigation? From Baltimore Cop to English Serial Killer 2011-12-06T17:00:15Z

The NFTs to go on sale next month include scanned digital copies of handwritten script pages for uncut versions of scenes from the film, with audio commentary and other elements. Miramax sues Tarantino over planned ‘Pulp Fiction’ NFTs 2021-11-16T05:00:00Z

I’m always trying to service the script, and however people want to take it, I have no control over that. She’s Oscar-Nominated, but Hong Chau Hopes to Stay an Underdog 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z

Krieger continued to modify her script drafts in response to internal feedback. How They Staged a Little Girl’s Inner Universe 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z

Moving National Geographic into scripted content, such as adaptations of nonfiction books, is a big departure for the company’s mission. National Geographic goes Hollywood! (In its own sort of way.) 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z

“When we were working on ‘Conan,’ Oliver gave me a script of ‘Platoon,’ a first draft that read like Dante’s ‘Inferno.’ Hollywood Stalwarts Return to the War Zone That Is Wall Street 2010-05-13T11:30:00Z

She noticed that the crew member wasn’t responding to the apology as scripted. How an Apology Creates a Turning Point in ‘Women Talking’ 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z

Steve Zahn and Melissa Leo, David Simon and his assistant, the owner of the house and his pregnant fiancee, the first assistant director and the script supervisor, two stand-ins, a grip. Katrina and all that jazz 2010-05-01T23:07:00Z

So I did, and sold a lot of scripts like "Car Wash," which they wouldn't let me direct. A new "Trespass" in Joel Schumacher's film career 2011-10-11T17:03:08Z

That month Edwards attended a table read of a script written by Greg Nelson, a white writer on staff and a friend of Spottiswood's. "He made their lives miserable": How the showrunner of a popular courtroom drama finally got fired 2021-05-12T04:00:00Z

“It was almost like working within a received form, like a sonnet or a villanelle, to write into the context of the script,” he said. Hollywood Has Long Turned to Novelists for Help. But Poets? 2018-11-23T05:00:00Z

So it’s telling — almost a signal of surrender — that “Cinema Verite,” an HBO movie about the making of that legendary documentary, falls back on the scripted contrivances of premium cable. | 'Cinema Verite': The First Airing of Dirty Laundry 2011-04-21T22:02:46Z

Their success has emboldened the rental and streaming-video service—which, thanks to binge-watching, has been partially credited with the dramatic ratings increase has enjoyed this season—to pursue more scripted series. What If Better Call Saul Had Ended Up at Netflix? 2013-09-20T21:22:49Z

Vardimon's own emotionally driven, physically punishing choreography is combined in this latest work with a specially commissioned script from Soho Theatre director and writer Pamela Carter. This week's new dance 2010-09-17T23:06:00Z

This script adds the Netflix-friendly spin of having the two would-be turtle doves clash on the topic of favorite holiday movies. "Love Hard," a holiday catfish story masquerading as a romance, is a swipe right and a miss 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z

“In the original script, I looked at him with great disdain and, wrapped in my strong ideals, walked out,” he wrote. Sidney Poitier: A trailblazing life in his own words 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z

“But since this book was published using that script, it was adopted and became known as Rashi script.” In Brooklyn, a Trove of Hebrew Books From Centuries Past 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z

For a Hollywood executive, the Deepwater disaster couldn’t have been scripted any better. Risky Business: Hollywood Bets Big on ‘Deepwater Horizon’ 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z

“I remember my dad working with me on breaking down my script and writing out a back story for my character and all that stuff,” Mr. Bateman recalled. Arts & Leisure: The Team Player Who Blends Into the Comedy 2011-06-30T15:23:03Z

I think in the original script we wrote the character at 10. Oscar Surprise: Why a 5-Year-Old Actress Might Just Win Over the Academy 2012-12-20T10:45:26Z

Expect a script for the next Hannibal Lecter reboot in the morning, Maks. Dancing with the Stars Watch: Two's Company 2012-10-02T12:00:08Z

Here, then, is our fantasy script of what really went down in the White House on Tuesday. Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer beat Donald Trump at his own game — reality TV 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z

We then went to Stephen and he read the script. Hawking in Hollywood: How "The Theory of Everything" Got Made 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z

Mr. Hutchinson said that although there are differences in various versions of the script, the essential material was consistent. Arthur Miller’s Screenplay ‘The Hook’ Finds a Home Onstage in England 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z

He won an Emmy for scripting the Halloween Tree for television. Ray Bradbury, writer who captivated a generation of sci-fi fans, dies at 91 2012-06-06T15:28:00Z

McQueen was at the height of his considerable stardom in 1970 when he tried to make a scripted movie centered on the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the sports car race in France. Review: ‘Steve McQueen: The Man & Le Mans,’ a Documentary 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z

Boal spoke with TIME's Radhika Jones in Los Angeles about the genesis of his script, the meaning of the phrase "the hurt locker" and why it's good to kill off famous people in your movie. Oscar Week: Hurt Locker Writer Mark Boal 2010-03-04T06:25:00Z

“When I wake up in the morning I’ll take it and move, but my boys came over and, you know, we started partying a little bit and then the script just, it just stayed there.” 'Rise of Skywalker' actor John Boyega: 'I left the script under my bed' 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z

“So I’ve written a script, I decided what these things mean.” At 52, Mabou Mines Is Still Testing Boundaries 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z

The exhibition also includes one of De Niro’s annotated “Taxi Driver” scripts, opened to a page where Bickle stares into the mirror. Robert De Niro’s Career in Five Artifacts 2022-10-15T04:00:00Z

Director Ben Wheatley is too talented to be directing this script. ‘Sightseers’: Script takes too many wrong turns 2013-06-13T21:15:59Z

These writers don't just hand in scripts and walk away. ITV looks to a dramatic future 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z

Sinclair attracted unwelcome attention early last year when an eerie compilation video of its many news anchors from across the country reading the same promotional script went viral. Sinclair yanked a pandemic conspiracy theory program. But it has stayed in line with Trump on coronavirus. 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z

"Today's players are so clearly pampered prima donnas that I think the script has been rendered even more scathing by what happened at the World Cup." Harold Brighouse's The Game: Pampered stars, bankrupt clubs ? a tale of football in the 1920s 2010-08-21T23:06:00Z

Things went silent until the end of the decade when a new script by the writer-producers of The Office got Sony thinking about reviving the franchise once again. Can 'Ghostbusters' Use The Marvel Franchising Model? 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z

“If you wrote a script for this, they would send it back for rewrites because it’s just so improbable and dramatic, funny and tragic, sad and happy,” Brian says. An ‘I do’ do-over for Claudia Uceda and Brian Mooar 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z

What did you think when you read that script? "Mad Men's" Meredith on Why She's Don's Best Secretary Ever 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z

Details are sketchy, but Tom Stoppard is scripting. The most exciting family films of 2017 2016-12-26T05:00:00Z

But that doesn’t mean everyone follows that script. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Being there for an ailing girlfriend vs. being there for yourself 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z

"I must tell you when we were writing the script, we didn't see the film as a heavy film," said Granit. Israeli filmmakers use light touch on heavy topic in 'Farewell Party' 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z

“I remember printing out the ‘Pulp Fiction’ script when I was 12 and reading it to my mom as she drove me to class,” he said, laughing. Who Is Austin Butler and What Does He Want? 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z

Changing Willy from white to Black completely causes a shift in perspective and the way the audience absorbs the story, even if not a word of the script changes. Wendell Pierce on bringing a Black Willy Loman to life, making "Death of a Salesman" relevant today 2022-12-10T05:00:00Z

If the movies have taught us anything, it’s that trying to script the nostalgia of the future is a losing battle. Sorry, But the Original Ghostbusters Isn't Even That Good 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z

Sadly, however, Harryhausen's wonderful worlds of fantasy were rarely equalled by strong scripts or actors. Ray Harryhausen dies aged 92: master of stop-motion animation 2013-05-07T19:06:34Z

When I finish the script I want the script to be so good that I’m tempted to stop, I’m tempted not to make the movie, because if I just stop right now, I’m the winner. The Visionaries: How Quentin Tarantino Concocted a Genre of His Own 2012-12-19T13:00:00Z

That fact is said to be fueling the demands, though Summit won't lock the script for the final movies until it's a 100% done deal that there will be two. "Twilight" co-stars begin tough contract talks 2010-05-14T05:44:00Z

It was a story out of a horror movie or a “Law & Order” script. The Lesson Here Is Listen to the Victim 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z

Mr. Lott’s script is sensitive, mostly avoiding clichés as it traces stages of decline and the familial trauma that goes with them. Review: ‘Blossom,’ a Puppet’s Tale of Alzheimer’s 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z

The scripts are very modern, very fresh and very funny. Parker back for new Thunderbirds 2013-09-30T10:39:46Z

I do hope that somewhere, someone has a brilliant film script that will once again allow the world so see a brilliant artist at work. Glenda Jackson on Quitting Parliament, Playing Lear and Returning to Broadway 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z

Mr. Albert recommended the script to his producing partner, Mr. Ramis, and they tried to persuade Mr. Murray to take the lead role. Going Back to ‘Groundhog Day.’ Again. 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z

Thomason had heard from friends about some people’s plans to protest the show, even before they knew a lick of its plot or a line of the script. Onstage, ‘Designing Women’ Sheds the Shoulder Pads, Not Its Politics 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z

When I wrote for David Chase, I kept saying, “I’m going to write a script he can’t rewrite.” ArtsBeat: The 'Mad Men' Season That Almost Wasn't: An Interview With Matthew Weiner, Part 1 2012-03-07T13:00:32Z

In the introduction to his “Collected Screenplays, Volume 2,” Pinter wrote that he worked on the script with the director Richard Lester. Film Scripts by Harold Pinter to Become Radio Plays 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z

Based on a script written by Joel and Ethan Coen in the 1980s, the film opens with a cheery prologue promoting the charms of Suburbicon, which include a church and a mall. George Clooney tackles 'original sin' of slavery and racism in dark comedy 2017-09-02T04:00:00Z

I remember – though only dimly, so forgive me for any error – hearing someone describe a script meeting for an episode of The Simpsons. The Human Centipede is cosmic slapstick 2010-08-29T21:30:00Z

I'm not even sure it quite survives a calamitous opening half in which the script toils to prop up Charlie's increasingly ornate flights of fancy. Film review: I Know You Know 2010-04-08T22:00:00Z

When scripting his own films he tries to compose them like a musical score, labouring for them to work "vertically as well as horizontally". Peter Greenaway: 'I plan to kill myself when I'm 80' 2012-11-15T20:00:08Z

“Mean Girls” does have a stronger spine than a sentimental piece such as “School of Rock”: the soul of Fey’s script is closer to bruised than bubbly. Review | ‘Mean Girls’ fans: Tina Fey’s musical is a singing, dancing revenge party, and it’s funny 2017-11-19T05:00:00Z

He didn’t necessarily write the script with Mr. Cruise in mind, he added, but once Mr. Cruise decided to play Reacher, the project suddenly became “something they didn’t have a reason to say no to.” Tom Cruise as Lee Child’s Fictional Hero in ‘Jack Reacher’ 2012-12-07T13:00:00Z

“When I read the script I cried, and I’m not really a big crier,” admitted Boyega. The New 'Star Wars' Script Made Star John Boyega Cry 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z

During previews, Nelson tweaks the script each day, to keep up with the news. Catching Up with Richard Nelson, Real-Time Election Playwright 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z

He knew “Training Day” was a great script and would be big — it was; and, of course, there was his hero, Mr. Washington. Ethan Hawke Is Still Taking Ethan Hawke Extremely Seriously 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z

He went onto discuss the importance of the screenplay and how dangerous it can be when the script doesn’t live up to the challenge. Scott Cooper: people don't go to the movies for facts 2015-09-07T04:00:00Z

If the Disney scripts stretched the truth about Crockett, the final episode remained faithful to at least one historical fact. Fess Parker, Who as Davy Crockett Set Off Coonskin Cap Craze, Dies at 85 2010-03-19T04:38:00Z

At one of Ms. Roberts’s many auditions for the musical, she was asked to read from Mr. Riggs’s script. Joan Roberts, Heroine of Original ‘Oklahoma!,’ Dies at 95 2012-08-16T03:15:26Z

To prepare for their short, intense shoot, an assistant compiled binders filled with scripts and schedules. The Easy Banter and the Vicious Retorts of ‘Married’ 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z

Yet here you become enticed by the technological wizardry, skillful actors, and a snappy and witty script. Review: ‘Doctor Strange’ and His Most Excellent Adventure 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z

It is not surprising to learn that a script was tossed and the performers developed their own lines. ‘2/Duo’ Review: Relationship Rituals 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z

Alongside two more novels, he followed this up with scripts to the space drama "Sunshine" and adaptations of the novel "Never Let Me Go" and comic "Dredd." Sci-fi 'Ex Machina' feels modern, futuristic and classical at once 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z

“I’m almost positive that it was written into the script that he did that, but those sound effects aren’t fake.” ‘Kids,’ Then and Now 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z

Rodriguez only needs the script to take us from one gimmick to the next, and his lack of attention to it shows. 'Spy Kids: All the Time in the World' smells a little like desperation 2011-08-19T20:51:05Z

Is it more of a challenge to be scripted? Larry David on Broadway Theater, ‘Seinfeld’ and Death Etiquette 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z

Now in the scripts, as a stage direction, instead of saying, “The Doctor looks peeved” or “The Doctor looks annoyed,” they just write, “Eyebrows.” 'Doctor Who' and the Eyebrows of Peter Capaldi 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z

This is part of the lore around that script, a relished detail in the story of its discovery: The title page was missing. ‘Chekhov’s First Play’ Review: A Play-by-Play of the Play Within the Play 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z

It’s a great question – and it’s one I’ll shortly have the answer to, because there is a script in development for a US Peep Show with two female leads. 'Peep Show with female losers? Bring it on!' – Sam Bain on why comedy needs diversity 2019-05-25T04:00:00Z

He had a pre-prepared script that had been rehearsed in advance. Ageing bulls: have Robert De Niro’s roles inspired Donald Trump? 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z

Rubba, formerly with Hazel, says he wants to make “vegetables the star” of his script and do everything he can to support sustainability in his kitchen. Review | Four ways to bring self-care to your holiday dining 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z

Charles, who wears his old TV role like shield, is similarly inclined to scripting his way around emotionally difficult corners. "Only Murders in the Building" bridges Boomer and Millennial sensibilities for a comedy that slays 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z

As recently as the mid-2000s, the way to audition for television was to submit scripts written on spec. A scholar gives theater directors their due when it comes to Shakespeare 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z

At first, the actress was not interested in reading the movie's script "because I thought, 'Oh, this just sounds like "Benjamin Button" with a chick.'" Blake Lively balances baby, Preserve lifestyle site and 'Age of Adaline' 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z

Hodge and Boyle’s script – which is different in all respects – was thought to have been a work-in-progress until recently, and it is understood its themes were more topical than is traditional for a Bond film. Danny Boyle's exit from James Bond throws franchise into chaos 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z

When the cameras turn off, the drama turns up as Ana battles pesky network execs, drunken script writers, narcissistic co-stars, and an unfortunately familiar new onscreen love interest. Watch Trailers for NBC's New Fall Dramas and Comedies 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z

Seven American film studios turned down the script before Vaughn released it through his own production company. Kick-Ass Jane 2010-03-21T00:05:00Z

Much of the novel emphasizes how the actors’ problems make their way into the scripts, especially after the first blush of inspiration has dimmed. Nick Hornby’s ‘Funny Girl,’ About a 1960s BBC Sitcom Star 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z

No one person deserves all the credit or blame for an industrial product like “Tomb Raider”; one place to start griping, though, is with those who signed off on its script. Review: ‘Tomb Raider’ and the Perils of Blockbustering 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z

“He often writes food into the script, and it’s always accurate,” she said. On ‘Downton Abbey,’ Beware the Fish Mousse 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

He orders clients to post another video, follow this script, get this verification badge. Jawline: behind the social media documentary about short-lived fame 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z

The board, which has to check scripts before filming begins, imposed the ban, saying on Twitter: “Anyone found in its possession will be in breach of law.” Lesbian love movie director sues Kenya to lift ban on film 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z

The script then splits open into a fantastical, cosmic game show, in which nobody is a winner. 12 Streamable Plays That Depict Black Lives Pierced by Racism 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z

Starz ordered 20 episodes — two seasons' worth — of "Blunt Talk" right away, before all the scripts were written or any film had been shot. Patrick Stewart enters 'a new world' of comedy with 'Blunt Talk' on Starz 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z

Jebreal rewrote the script herself, and she was on set with Schnabel throughout the shoot, in Ramallah and Jerusalem, advising on what looked authentic. Director Julian Schnabel on taking the flak for his new film 2010-10-24T20:45:00Z

As if that bit of sexual legerdemain was not enough, she surrounded the image with Arabic script, which carries associations with the Quran. Art in Review: Arahmaiani: ‘Fertility of the Mind’ 2014-01-30T21:42:44Z

Because it would be hard to film Combs and Stiller without their knowing participation, it has fed suspicions that at least some of the film was scripted. Venice shows Affleck's film on Joaquin Phoenix 2010-09-06T19:16:00Z

Some places will ask to approve your "script" before they give you permission to film. Mary Beard: So much for TV dumbing down 2013-07-13T08:01:02Z

There are new works, and then there are scripts so fresh from the playwright’s fingertips that they reach the stage with no time for rehearsal. This Week in Arts: a Menagerie, Fresh-Picked Plays and Cuban Dance 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z

Long fabled as a director, script doctor and dramatist, Ms. May first became famous as a master of improvisational comedy, instantly inventing fully detailed, piquantly neurotic characters who always leaned slightly off-kilter. Review: Elaine May Might Break Your Heart in ‘Waverly Gallery’ 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z

You start with a script and add a lot of improvisation. 'The League' Creators Jeff and Jackie Schaffer on Their Show's Final Season 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z

While serving in the army during World War II, Laurents wrote military training films as well scripts for such radio programs as "Army Service Forces Present" and "Assignment Home." 'Gypsy' playwright Arthur Laurents dies in NYC 2011-05-06T03:47:09Z

He showed her the script one day on set. The explosive film lifting the lid on sex trafficking between India and LA 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z

He kept yelling at people who worked for him, but I never heard that he threw a script at anyone again. Pigs in Hollywood: Moonves is as bad as Weinstein 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z

But does she rip into the script like a stage school kid after a Haribo binge? Revenge: the high-society whodunnit that is frighteningly addictive 2012-05-25T23:02:00Z

Artists will submit five pieces of art, while writers will turn in a 10-page script based on Lee's treatment. Stan Lee reveals details of new comic "Seekers" 2011-07-22T23:00:05Z

Amy Ryan is quickly resonant in a deadpan role, and the script offers a surprisingly unforced amiability, emotional clarity, and deft espionage entanglements. The Good and the Bad in “Central Intelligence” 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z

And finally, “What do you think of scripted?” Rev Run Closes a Door on Reality but Opens Another (With a Laugh Track) 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z

He wrote a script which reminded me of one of my favorite kinds of writing and writers, P.G. Jeff Goldblum on Independence Day Sequel: "It's Brewing" 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z

According to this juxtaposition, it may still be possible to flip the script. Review | In the galleries: Powerful messages that require few words 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z

And I’m reminded of the time my father and I were piteously rained upon at the climax of “Bohemian Rhapsody,” underscoring just how trite that script was. Watch Movies in 4DX and You’ll Get an Education in Filmmaking 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z

The encounters often follow the script: Young Icon makes pilgrimage to Junkie Majesty on High in his Tribeca bunker — or, later, at his home in Lawrence, Kan. Review | How David Bowie, Jimmy Page, Patti Smith and other musicians fell for William S. Burroughs 2019-06-21T04:00:00Z

But ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC are debuting just six scripted series this week; in the same time frame in 2019, the last time there was a fall season, they debuted 13. The Fall TV Season Is Back, Smaller Than Ever 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z

But according an early copy of the script obtained by the L.A. Original “Straight Outta Compton” script included Dr. Dre’s assault of Dee Barnes 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z

The script, released the next day, becomes the best-selling book of the year. Who needs a Nobel Prize? Who is Elena Ferrante? And other literary news in 2016. 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

Anderson sends Sami scripts early on in his projects, and then the animatics — rough animations that convey the long tracking shots the filmmaker likes. Wes Anderson’s Secret Weapon: The Camera Moves of Sanjay Sami 2023-06-21T04:00:00Z

“I did a script comedy workshop in Norway years ago, for instance, and often I was asked after telling a joke, ‘Could you explain why and how that is funny?’ “ A Russian ?Raymond? Proves Hard to Love 2011-04-16T02:33:01Z

Shipka ably handles the responsibility of leading the story, but the director Matt Smukler has a harder time balancing the charming and empathetic ensemble performances with the script’s constantly judgmental tone. ‘Wildflower’ Review: The Parents Are All Right 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z

It and the other game shows mentioned here are debuting in that post-holiday sweet spot when scripted series need a break and our minds are still recovering from the holiday movie hangover. American spirit, as seen on TV via "The Masked Singer" and "The Titan Games" 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z

The script does much better by Chris, though, and “Landscapers” is a showcase for Thewlis, with his angular frame and his distinctive style of commanding awkwardness. Review: ‘Landscapers’ Is Not Your Typical True-Crime Love Story 2021-12-05T05:00:00Z

“Odd Mom Out,” one of the channel’s few forays into scripted television, does our work for us. The fine line between snark and mean: The biting satire of “Odd Mom Out” in danger of dulling 2016-06-19T04:00:00Z

At Tuesday's select committee hearing, the script was more prescribed. Waiting for Murdoch 2011-07-22T18:00:01Z

"We read her script, we were part of developing that script, we thought it was great," Bono said of the version that critics ripped to shreds in February. Bono never guessed size of 'Spider-Man' challenges 2011-06-14T06:55:46Z

Another of his scripts featured the programme's highest body count. Ranald Graham obituary 2010-09-16T18:14:00Z

The camera reveals all the awkwardness in the script that good stage actors might overcome in a theater. Movie Review | 'Just Say Love': Gay Love and Marriage 2010-03-26T01:25:00Z

Mr. Hentemann assembled a staff that includes five Latino writers personally familiar with life in the borderlands, many of whom had never previously written for a scripted show. This Season’s Breakout Star: The Border 2015-12-23T05:00:00Z

It takes a while to find your writer and get that deal done, and they write the script. Ellen Page on 'Freeheld' and Coming Out 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z

How much is scripted on the show and how much is improvised? ArtsBeat: Amy Poehler on the Return (Finally) of 'Parks and Recreation' 2011-01-20T18:55:28Z

I had made up my mind, certainly, about what it was that had happened to his son, but when I saw the script I thought, great, this works just fine. “Better Call Saul’s” Jonathan Banks on playing Mike: “It brings out a lot of my sadness” 2015-04-05T04:00:00Z

She somehow figured the confines of the script, by Gary Lundy, would help. Judy Greer, Hollywood’s Favorite Co-Star, Turns Filmmaker 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z

They are keen to stress their own input in the script, but the process of selecting their targets seems something of a bargaining process. These Very Important People: who do they think they are? 2012-05-22T19:00:00Z

Gordon, impressively, does actually seem to be able to read the Han script, and successfully identifies a restaurant by its sign, but his spoken Taiwanese is less good. TV review: Gordon Ramsay ? Shark Bait; Wild at Heart; Zen 2011-01-17T08:00:02Z

Talking to BBC Trending she says the script for the programme - which was later leaked in full - "only confirmed the blatant stereotyping of Arab culture" in the US media. US TV drama about Saudi Arabia axed 2014-03-24T18:14:04Z

It's a sadly familiar script in pop music, the history of which is checkered with greats and would-be greats snuffed out too early in life. Winehouse among music talents gone too soon 2011-07-24T11:51:14Z

Many of the cast members had a hand in reworking the script to better reflect their lives and daily vernacular. ‘Cadejo Blanco’ Review: Negotiating Guatemalan Street Life 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z

Ms Epstein said parts of the script were changed following the Foundation's advice. EastEnders complaints top 3,400 2011-01-04T15:42:42Z

No matter how hard I tried to push into real human terrain over chat, and sometimes on real-life dates, I always found myself dragged back into a scripted dance of niceties. 'This is small talk purgatory': what Tinder taught me about love 2019-12-07T05:00:00Z

It took her months to finish reading the script, which didn’t hold back when describing Steve’s disturbing fetish. In These Women’s Hands, Dating Is Truly the Stuff of Horror 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z

Maybe the weirdest thing is a computer printout of the script for Richard Linklater’s “Waking Life,” but that printout’s days are numbered; the text is fading away. Emily St. John Mandel Will Read Anything, if She Likes It 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z

“I didn’t even have to read the script,” she added. Martha Plimpton Can’t Say Enough About Pamela Adlon, the Tate Modern and Abortion Rights 2022-08-09T04:00:00Z

Fast forward to the collapse "and suddenly I was rewriting a script and shooting it right in the midst of tens of millions of people going through this." 'Company Men' writer John Wells keeps it in the family 2011-01-19T23:59:00Z

On the video call, Barrett and Doyle brandished a script for their new show, “The Burnt City,” which will open in London in March. ‘Sleep No More’ Awakens After a Long Hibernation 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z

Is that what appealed to you in the script? Anne Hathaway talks of "Love and Other Drugs" 2010-11-19T15:41:00Z

The entire process, said Broadbent, takes about six months — and while he thoroughly enjoys it, he admits that afterward "it's very nice to go to something where there's a script!" 'Another Year,' another improvised Mike Leigh script 2011-01-21T00:28:50Z

It sounds glib but it's true -- if I just keep reading the script, it's a fair indication of something. A Minute With: Paul Giamatti about "Barney's Version" 2011-01-13T17:49:58Z

Taken individually, many of them could be the script for a gag cartoon or a bit in a standup routine, but in aggregate, they build up to a worldview: quirky, jaded, and yet strangely tender. Marry Me by Dan Rhodes – review 2013-02-08T11:00:01Z

Mr. Esmail had never worked in television before “Mr. Robot,” which began as a film script before he decided the complex narrative would work better as a serial. Rami Malek of ‘Mr. Robot’: The Face of Hacktivism 2016-07-06T04:00:00Z

Medafonil doesn’t easily escape this cultural script as a medicine, as a medical product, so it’s ultimately bound to these ideas about health, about expert knowledge and medical authority. A drug can make sleep optional 2013-01-24T22:07:00Z

The scripts were smart, naturalistic, funny and full of surprises, brought to life in thoughtful performances from a cracking cast, with bewitching turns from Montanna Thompson, Sian Breckin and Andrew Scott in non-recurring roles. From The Returned to Broadchurch to Game of Thrones: the best TV of 2013 2013-07-28T18:00:01Z

It was exciting to see a real scripted show for adults with some terrific acting. ‘Feud: Bette and Joan’ Season Finale: Two Seconds 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z

A few scraps of those settings are in the show, as are original scripts and sketches, though they don’t pretend to be anything more than relics, a secondhand experience of art. The Week Ahead: Feb. 19 ? 25 2012-02-17T15:52:59Z

Why spend so many years getting this one script in shape? Robert Duvall/Bill Murray movie 'Get Low' returns to Seattle 2010-08-04T22:03:00Z

Ms. Son, 70, said she agreed to participate after reading — and crying over — the script, sent to her by Mr. Cho. From Cho Junglae, a Film on Japanese Wartime Brothels 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z

Klein says the script covers Cooke's entire life -- 1931 to 1964 -- from childhood through his years as a gospel singer, a pop star, civil rights activist and eventually a label owner and music publisher. Sam Cooke film moving forward, script complete 2011-03-15T02:23:11Z

Without its scripted cues, they have no idea what to say. ‘Uppercase Print’ Review: Between the Lines 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z

Among them was a teenager who offered a quietly devastating critique of the “cliched” scripts full of “running up and down corridors and silly monsters”. The diehards of doom! Why Doctor Who is the show fans love to hate 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z

I loved it the moment I started reading the script. A Minute With: Paul Giamatti about "Barney's Version" 2011-01-13T17:49:58Z

“The script came alive in such a way that it reignited my fire about editing,” Adair said. Richard Linklater and Sandra Adair: Three Decades of Action and Cuts 2022-04-05T04:00:00Z

Two new songs were added; changes were made to dozens of pages of the script and lyrics. Jeanna de Waal Has Already Forgotten About That ‘Diana’ Film 2021-11-16T05:00:00Z

Writers can assemble virtually to create a whole season’s worth of scripts, but the actual sets remain closed. Perspective | Stars are working to stay afloat with Zoom and improvised efforts. But it’ll never match TV’s liveliness. 2020-05-03T04:00:00Z

Mr. Yelchin, 22, and Ms. Jones, 27, made Mr. Doremus’s film without a script, without knowing each other, through improvisation and, ultimately, a process that both declared was “total freedom.” ?Like Crazy? Was Filmed Without a Script 2011-10-23T01:03:02Z

At once faithful and irreverent, it’s an illuminating interpretation that is alert to the script’s inadvertent comedy and delighted to mine it. Review: 1 Actor, in 8 Roles, Wrestles Nuance From Eugene O’Neill’s ‘Strange Interlude’ 2017-10-22T04:00:00Z

A shoddy script and an overwhelming reliance on clichés, however, make this would-be blockbuster feel incredibly cheap. ‘The Lady of Heaven’ Review: A Tale of Two Eras 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z

But when he read the script — cold, he said, with no idea what it was about — he found himself drawn to his character’s steady competence amid chaos. ‘The Martian’ Author Andy Weir Brings His Nerd Thriller Into the Mainstream 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z

Richard: Write a really good script that they are excited to make. "Office Space" 20th anniversary: Read the full Q&A moderated by Richard Linklater 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z

But I read the script and I was very charmed by it. Michael Shannon on His 'Behind-Closed-Doors, Private Version of Elvis' 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z

But I read the script, and I was like, wow, this is a classic story. ‘While You Were Sleeping’ turns 25: An oral history of the Sandra Bullock rom-com favorite 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z

She wrote the script based on her own experiences and those of friends, including some "calamitous" attempts to volunteer her help in New York, not always with the desired results. 2010-02-16T15:37:00Z

His book American Psycho displayed his knack for detailing extreme violence, so scripting a horror film would appear to be the logical next step. Paul Schrader and Bret Easton Ellis to get their teeth into Bait 2011-08-03T12:23:31Z

Finally, stand-up comics Kevin Hart and Bill Burr have a half-hour untitled scripted series that's billed as a modern-day take on "The Odd Couple." Comedy Central plans sex talk show, Jesus cartoon 2010-05-06T05:29:00Z

Gatekeepers in administrative offices would tell Nagle that her scripts were good but that audiences are hungry for contemporary stories, not history. Friends and playwrights tell stories that call for action on stage 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z

“Midtown certainly was not in the script,” said Stephen Godfroy, one of Rough Trade’s owners, in a video interview from his home in Oxford, England, last week. Rough Trade Record Store Has an Unlikely New Home: 30 Rock 2021-05-10T04:00:00Z

It’s one of few full scripts by George Meyer, lead rewrite guy for the show’s classic years and it’s arguably its best: funny, adroit, with a core of surprising seriousness about religion. The Simpsons Thanksgiving marathon: the 25 best episodes to gorge on 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z

Not ready to be set adrift, Crawford finds herself the script for “Baby Jane.” Review: ‘Feud: Bette and Joan,’ a Clash of the Gossip Girls 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z

Danny Boyle, once slated to direct, called the script “so dark it would never get made.” Movie review of Texas Killing Fields 2011-10-17T18:00:00Z

I knew exactly what he meant—what they call the shoe leather in a film script, where it shows somebody walking or just the logistics of how the story works. Dan Clowes’s “Wilson” 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z

The screenwriters’ union agreed to a compromise: it said it would not picket the ceremony as long as the show does not rely on a written script. How America’s Playwrights Saved the Tony Awards 2023-05-23T04:00:00Z

Namely, he felt the script suffered from being a too-literal adaptation of my book. All writers should read Robert McKee 2013-04-10T20:47:00Z

The script is a literal rendering of a series of phone conversations the creators conducted with Kristin Worrall, who plays the flute and other instruments during the first episode and appears occasionally onstage. Theater Review: ‘Life and Times: Episodes 1-4,’ at the Public Theater 2013-01-23T03:00:48Z

I was writing the script all the time and by Christmas we'd caught up. How we made ... Anthony Andrews and Charles Sturridge on Brideshead Revisited 2012-06-18T17:02:43Z

The lines are completely blurred now between television and film” "We were just like, 'this script is amazing', so we took this leap of faith." Orange is the New Black is 'a 13-hour movie' 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z

Many of the subjects, however, were bit actors from the studio reciting scripted comments. ‘Mank’ and Politics: What Really Happened in 1934 California 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z

Mr. Pink, for his part, is pleased that Hollywood, at least occasionally, is still willing to go through the bother of developing an original script, however grueling the process may be. Development Yields ?Knight and Day,? Cruise-Diaz Film 2010-04-14T21:58:00Z

Director Sarah Esdaile, after researching all Williams's variations, has gone back to a 1974 script that combines the best of both the original and the Broadway texts. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof: Tennessee Williams's southern discomfort 2012-09-30T19:00:11Z

Gervais’s dialogue comes across as though he’s scripting arguments for his surrogate to win, like the Aaron Sorkin of being a jerk. Review: Ricky Gervais’s ‘After Life’ Is the Tearjerking of a Clown 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z

January used to be a fallow period for TV, making it fertile ground for scripted burn-offs and all manner of reality shows, once considered to be disposable entertainment. American spirit, as seen on TV via "The Masked Singer" and "The Titan Games" 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z

He said in a 1998 interview that the “Plan 9” script “made no sense” but that he took the job because one of the producers was a friend of his. Gregory Walcott, Actor Known for ‘Plan 9 From Outer Space,’ Dies at 87 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z

It can cost 50-75 percent less to make a reality show than to make a scripted show. "Bridalplasty": The reality TV apocalypse no one watched 2011-02-01T01:05:00Z

The Writers Guild, which unveils its nominations today, nevertheless considers it an original script, and it is indeed semi-autobiographical, as he explains in these excerpts from the conversation: 'Whiplash' and Those Bleeding Hands 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z

But the challenge of the character attracted him, as did the scripts, and he appreciated the involvement of both Jan Broberg and her mother, Mary Ann, who is also a producer. In ‘A Friend of the Family,’ Jake Lacy Breaks Character 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z

The script’s emphasis on Kaczynski’s relentless bachelorhood and his feelings of castration is too neat an explanation. ‘Ted K’ Review: An Eerie Descent 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z

“Noah Oppenheim, who wrote the script, has been saying that it shows our country has been through many difficult times, and we’ve managed to pull through and come out the other end of the tunnel.” Natalie Portman: ‘JFK was a great proponent of civil rights. Trump is taking us backwards’ 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z

MacLachlan memorized his dialogue in advance and was shocked when he arrived on set and Armisen handed him three new script pages. 'Portlandia' gets greenlight for a second spoofy season 2011-02-14T21:55:03Z

Production was put back to allow time for the completion of a new script by Bond veterans Neil Purvis and Robert Wade; this was then overhauled by Bourne Ultimatum writer Scott Z Burns. Phoebe Waller-Bridge: new Bond film must 'treat women properly' – even if he doesn't 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z

"He's merciless in his feedback, but it's very helpful," Turturro says, adding that some of the script's broader moments were stripped out. Turturro lands an unlikely co-star: Woody Allen 2013-09-09T17:59:52Z

So Schumer took another stab at the script, and this time pulled material straight from her own experiences. Amy Schumer still surprised Judd Apatow cast her in her own movie 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z

Was Claire at some point in the scripting supposed to be less crabby, more winning? Cake review – an anti-vanity vehicle for Jennifer Aniston 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z

Gorgeously shot; script fell flat and played up to Twilight audience too much. Open thread: What film has the best ever soundtrack? 2012-06-18T08:51:28Z

It's a very traditional studio sitcom setup, made watchable by its stars and enjoyable by a waspish script. ITV's gay sitcom fails to impress 2013-04-30T10:12:43Z

We thought it was a long shot just to get him, but he was happy to respond to me and Zach and the script. Q&A: Director Todd Phillips Talks About 'Due Date' 2010-11-19T14:15:00Z

Sorkin’s script was performed in its entirety, scathing epithets and all. Perspective | Watching ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ with 18,000 teenagers was one of the most profound theater experiences of my career 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z

They didn’t have much of a script in the beginning so the men wrote their own, Sullivan, who eventually became vice president of the Magic Kingdom, recalled in 2008. No Lion, the Skipper Is the Real King of the Jungle Cruise 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z

Phoebe Waller-Bridge has been hired to do a pass on the new James Bond script, which puts us in an unprecedented position. Guinea pigs and remorse: six things James Bond could learn from Fleabag 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z

The program brought Zimbalist an Emmy nomination in 1959, but after a few seasons he tired of the long hours and what he believed were the bad scripts. Efrem Zimbalist Jr., star of 'The FBI,' dead at 95 2014-05-03T15:39:30Z

The actress acknowledged she was slightly star-struck as she read from a script to present the various checks. Hollywood Foreign Press gives away $1.5 million 2010-07-28T22:58:00Z

A comedy about a lonely man and woman who spend a weekend together, the script hits its mark early and often. | 'Kissing Sid James': ?Kissing Sid James,? at 59E59 - Review 2011-12-20T23:25:12Z

This meant Amiel and Begler had to churn out nine additional scripts in just three months, all without the benefit of a traditional writing staff. 'The Knick' is a new twist on the TV doctor show 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z

The scene with the neighbour's dog and an oblivious grandma is an excruciating comedy classic – but it's not the set-pieces this show relies on, it's the beautifully crafted script. Tonight's TV highlights: The Kindness Of Strangers 2011-03-11T00:05:02Z

I wouldn’t put a beautiful piece of descriptive prose in a film script. Neil Gaiman treasures ‘strange moments of the inexplicable’ 2013-05-30T20:34:05Z

On a crowded stage, with scripts in hand, cast members played out a story set in an English town whose shipbuilding industry was in its last throes. Sting Frees Himself With the Writing of ‘The Last Ship’ 2013-09-12T12:00:01Z

Yeah, absolutely, I couldn't believe it when I read the scripts and I saw that someone else was taking care of Tricki. "All Creatures Great and Small" star on animals, slow-burn romance & what makes a Scottish Christmas 2022-02-21T05:00:00Z

“It has been, first, the most exhausting month of my life and the best month,” said Mr. Thomas, who also finished the film’s script during that 30-day period. Texas Monthly: ‘Veronica Mars’ Will Return, Thanks to Fan Financing 2013-04-27T22:53:52Z

He also made his feature debut, “Dark Star,” with Dan O’Bannon, who would go on to work on the script for “Alien.” A Lord of Fright Reclaims His Dark Domain 2011-06-24T20:53:53Z

Mr. Mayer found a like-minded spirit in Ms. Lerner, whose desire to restore “On a Clear Day” to the musical canon superseded any purist fidelity to the script of her father, who died in 1986. Theater: ?On a Clear Day? Now Centers on the Psychiatrist 2011-11-27T05:27:19Z

Alas, Mr. Ross, the director of the genial entertainments “Pleasantville” and “Seabiscuit,” and whose script credits include “Big,” has a way of smoothing even modestly irregular edges. Movie Review: ?The Hunger Games? Movie Adapts the Suzanne Collins Novel 2012-03-22T12:00:01Z

That script, a series of rhymed couplets barnacled with topical quips, “was so impenetrably difficult,” she said. Uma Thurman, Ready to Be Tested 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z

In the original pilot script, Boyd died right there -- but the producers decided to keep him alive, perhaps because Goggins had acquired a cult following thanks to his scurvy star turn on FX's "The Shield." "Justified": How FX's struggling TV western redeemed itself 2011-02-23T16:13:00Z

What’s more remarkable is how Ali elevates the material without much help from the scripts. Review | Why does HBO still believe in the potential of ‘True Detective’? Search me. 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z

She acts heartbreak that doesn’t appear to be in Mr. Lee’s script, simply by turning for a last look at Mr. Snipes on her way out of an apartment. Who We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Weinstein 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z

You have a script to work with, sure, but they create an atmosphere on set that’s very collaborative. Stephen Graham: ‘The Irishman was my Champions League final’ 2019-12-15T05:00:00Z

As in: "I wanted the script to be more grounded", and "The action has to be grounded and true." Marc Webb: the latest director caught in Spider-Man's web 2012-06-21T20:00:01Z

Video game scripts tend toward the familiar and formulaic, and so does a lot of the dialogue here. Review: In ‘Ludic Proxy,’ a Blur of Actual and Virtual Reality 2015-04-12T04:00:00Z

And a scripted drama series begins on the History channel. What’s on TV Tuesday: ‘Good Trouble’ and ‘Project Blue Book’ 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z

She also helps them draft talking points to stay focused without sounding scripted and stilted. Work Advice: She thinks she knows his problem. Will he listen? 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z

After four of his tracks were featured in “365 Days,” Universal Music Group signed him to a global record deal, and he’s working on a second album while fielding scripts from Hollywood and Europe. How ‘365 Days’ Became One of Netflix’s Worst-Reviewed Big Hits 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z

She wrote the script years ago, much earlier than Donald Trump’s proposed wall between the US and Mexico. The female directors bringing new blood to horror films 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z

O'Donnell was, understandably, unimpressed by the experience, but was able to turn his original script into the first Modesty Blaise novels, published by Souvenir Press in hardback and Pan Books in paperback. Peter O'Donnell obituary 2010-05-05T18:09:00Z

Leadership gets full approval of scripts, ensuring that each film carries the government line. “Wolf Warrior 2,” China’s answer to “Rambo,” is a map of the nation’s future 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z

Throw two-thirds of the novel’s sprawling narrative away, condense, reconfigure: I’d leave the book on the shelf, once I’d read it a couple of times, and construct the script from memory and imagination. How to avoid writing an awful screenplay 2013-04-22T22:05:00Z

I didn't follow fashion, I followed the script. James Bond's closet hits a lot of timeless looks 2012-11-08T21:01:05Z

Knight wrung extraordinary tension and emotion from a bold, singular script that placed one resolute man in one moving vehicle on one critical night. Our Level the Playing Field picks: Awards for those Oscar has overlooked 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z

Although the synagogue was never the site of performances, the group would occasionally use the building to read through scripts in preparation for a production. Group selling Muscatine synagogue built in 1880s 2014-06-22T04:00:00Z

The promo script on the teleprompter wasn’t funny, but every time she tried to read it, she broke down laughing. Kelly Clarkson has defied expectations before. Can she break the daytime talk show curse? 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z

Mr. Caird’s script is efficient and fast paced, though toward the end, when Schumann’s correspondence dries up as his mental afflictions take over, the text necessarily shifts toward narrative, and the musical sections grow longer. Music Review: Sting and Trudy Styler as Robert and Clara Schumann 2010-07-01T18:13:00Z

He remembers that when he read Jennifer Saunders's script for Ab Fab he initially wondered how much she was making up. The secret of Birds of a Feather: why female friendship is the key to sitcom success 2013-06-29T11:35:14Z

It's funnier and more likable than their previous script, Horrible Bosses. The Incredible Burt Wonderstone – review 2013-03-14T22:30:01Z

These big-ticket spectacles hewed to the usual time-tested Hollywood script. ‘Jaws’ Is Still Devouring Us. SOS! 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z

Some reviewers criticized the script as too simple. Lebanese action film takes on Israel-Hezbollah war 2012-06-01T09:31:05Z

Noah, who also wrote the script, doesn’t do much better with Max’s musical life than Beresford does with Mr. Church’s. Why Is Eddie Murphy in Cinematic Exile? 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z

You get rewritten, and it’s embarrassing, but in a comedy room, they put your script up on the screen and 12 people see what you wrote and rewrite it. Matthew Weiner on Life After ‘Mad Men,’ Sexual Harassment and His New Amazon Show 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z

It was beautiful to be given the opportunity to be a vessel for the words that were in that script. In ‘Small Axe,’ Letitia Wright Plays a Real-Life Black Panther 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z

He starts every film with nothing but the script. A Shop Where Movie Cars Are Born, Then Modified 2010-05-15T03:03:00Z

What have many scripted series done when ratings flagged? ‘Labor Games’ Is a Brilliantly Absurd TV Game Show 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z

The script is tweaked for the Hub Theatre’s production in Fairfax, where Tia Shearer winsomely plays Dawkins and asks us to go along with the switch. Review | ‘Happiest Place’ sadly ponders Disneyland 2017-07-10T04:00:00Z

Earlier this year, Twitter user @femscriptintros shared a selection of tweets of the sexist way that women are introduced in scripts. Quentin Tarantino-produced film posts casting call for 'whores' 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z

Julian Fellowes, creator of "Downton Abbey," has scripted a "Titanic" miniseries, airing on ABC next weekend and telling the story of the disaster from the perspective of a number of different characters. The Titanic sinks again, on stage and screen 2012-04-04T23:27:04Z

More efficient than inspired, Soderbergh rarely succeeds on style alone, but when giving a sharp script, like the one for Side Effects, he can make an excellent film. Side Effects: One Pill Makes You Murder 2013-02-08T05:01:30Z

Herter choreographed the moves, wrote the script, shot the video, designed the costumes and had a hand in the music for the piece. Review: A night at Northwest New Works ? playful men with verve, serious women on the verge 2010-06-06T16:59:00Z

When the script calls for a bag of mail to fall from a plane in the sky, there was no need for fancy stagecraft; we just tossed it from a nearby rooftop. Missing Theater Under the Stars (Even the Bugs and the Rain) 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z

Instead, he says, the names on the script were a comfort. Domhnall Gleeson: ‘As far as I can remember Phoebe Waller-Bridge smelt lovely’ 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z

In the original script, however, the girls did get to experience the joys of Sin City. 20 surprising facts about "Bridesmaids" 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z

In the meantime, we asked seven lawyers with relevant expertise to help us untangle the thicket — how much change is permissible, and who gets to decide whether the script crosses that line? We Asked 7 Lawyers to Untangle the Broadway Fight Over ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z

Then Sunrise and I were texting about something else and she asked whatever happened to that movie you're doing this summer that Mark had the script for. Q&A: Julianne Moore of 'The Kids Are All Right' 2010-07-08T09:05:00Z

That is just some of them - and the summary does not do justice to Campbell's darkly comic script. Addicts' hostel inspires debut play 2013-09-19T11:33:10Z

Everyone was given a different thing to work from: the film itself; the legend of James Dean; things from the original script that were never shot. James Franco: why I recreated Psycho 2013-06-09T18:30:02Z

In the script Walter was described as the adopted younger brother of Mr. Segel’s character. Arts & Leisure: New Muppet (and Movie), Leading Franchise Into New Era 2011-11-16T16:00:12Z

“I was working with the script supervisor, which is great because she’s right by the monitor which meant I got to be right by the monitor,” says Rees. Meet the new hotshots of American film-making 2017-10-22T04:00:00Z

I pulled out my laptop and began working on the script that became my TV series “Transparent.” Jill Soloway Tells the Personal Story Behind “Transparent” 2018-10-07T04:00:00Z

And don’t worry about the script, the camera, just enjoy being with your friends, and we’ll capture it.” The friends who foiled a gunman - and are now playing themselves in a Clint Eastwood movie 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z

Weaknesses in a script are naturally more apparent to an audience not about to faint from shock, and this production seems to draw particular attention to the play’s shortcomings. L.A. revival of 'A Taste of Honey,' the 1958 play that dared to make a gay character its moral center 2016-10-09T04:00:00Z

Aukerman says the strange thing is the filming eventually took on tactics that are more common for reality TV shows than for scripted comedies. Bajillion Dollar Properties: the home-buying parody show with grand designs 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z

They were intense books for both of us, so we'd meet in the living room and work on this script to wind down. A life in writing: Vendela Vida 2011-07-08T21:55:12Z

Was it difficult to get Judy’s emotional reactions across with such an economical script and speedy plot? Mia Wasikowska: ‘After a while acting leaves you feeling hollow' 2019-11-16T05:00:00Z

“The Big House” was also nominated for best picture and received Oscars for its use of sound and Ms. Marion’s script. ‘Riot in Cell Block 11’ and ‘The Big House’ on DVD 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z

Not this scripted stuff like, "How you doing today, baby? What did you cook?" Ms. Pat on embracing life's darkness and friend Joe Rogan using the n-word: "We all make mistakes" 2022-03-06T05:00:00Z

I’m going to direct myself onstage and I wrote up the script on my own. The Boss on Broadway: Bruce Springsteen on His ‘First Real Job’ 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z

Plus he's got the benefit here of a lean, propulsive script by playwright Gregory Burke, whose stage production "Black Watch" won 22 prizes worldwide, including Britain's coveted Olivier Award. ''71' delivers 100% tension amid 'the Troubles' in Ireland 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

In 2013, Smith began writing a script for “Clerks III,” which included a character’s nervous breakdown, a theater shooting and the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. The Not-So-Silent Friendship of Jason Mewes and Kevin Smith 2022-09-27T04:00:00Z

That Rowling’s readers might revolt when asked to read a script? In the Latest Turn for Harry Potter and Company, Letting All the ‘What Ifs’ Out to Play 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z

Westlake himself won an Edgar for his script for “The Grifters,” which was also nominated for an Oscar. Michael Dirda reviews ‘The Getaway Car,’ a collection of Donald E. Westlake pieces

And she renders personalities well — Evans, rich but secretive; Kober, disciplined but driven; Ventris, inspired but insecure — also illustrating the huge challenge of analyzing a script without aid of computers or Internet. ‘The Riddle of the Labyrinth’: decoding an ancient language 2013-07-11T18:38:04Z

A lot of the scripted skits were like that – cute moments that overplayed their hand by a beat or five. The 2020 Emmys give us stars, just like us! At home, waiting for something good to happen 2020-09-21T04:00:00Z

Most of the white writers serving this committee also got any number of paying jobs to do patriotic scripts. Blacklisted from Birth: A Letter from Langston Hughes 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z

They work with every department, all the actors, script and camera. "To help life flow": Mark Dacascos reflects on his strong, flavorful and action-packed career 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z

But while certain tropes may recall older, similarly themed works, our preconceptions gradually unravel as his script contorts into something thrillingly new, wonderfully female and fascinatingly dangerous. Why Phantom Thread should win the 2018 best picture Oscar 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z

At a reading of the script held by Tarantino in Los Angeles last week, the director told the audience he was in fact still working on the film. Tarantino Gawker case dismissed 2014-04-24T09:00:14Z

I generally read the script two to three times a week. On Broadway, Newly Vital Understudies Step Into the Spotlight 2021-12-24T05:00:00Z

Midler found the script just as she was looking for a family-film project, and she immediately connected with the humor and warmth of the story. `Parental Guidance' unites Crystal, Midler 2012-12-24T13:55:08Z

“When I first read the script, I felt very moved by the retrospective, nostalgic quality of it. For our past and our youth, for the ’90s, for the movie itself.” ‘T2: Trainspotting’ Reunites the Lads for Another Round 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z

Phoning the bank with a dispute connected you to a representative, who asked a scripted set of questions. Travelers are turning to credit-card disputes when other routes to a refund have failed 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

Unlike the other “Potter” books, “Cursed Child” is a script, with stage directions and dialogue for a two-part play that opens July 30 in London, England. Summon a new ‘Harry Potter’ book at midnight release parties 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z

The dance later finds poetic resonance, though, by setting a duet on a mat printed with script, as if the men were inside their letters. Review: Dancing in the House of García Lorca 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z

In the initial script, the main character lived in Los Angeles and would have worked at a radio station. Sooner or Later, Zoë Kravitz Was Going to Be a Star 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z

A script came through for a film called OSS 117, an adaptation of a popular French novel about a goofy spy. Bérénice Bejo: 'The Artist was a gift. But I thought I was really good' 2013-05-25T18:00:02Z

In “The Dark Knight Rises” Mr. Nolan, working from a script he wrote with his brother Jonathan, further muddies the good-and-evil divide with Bane. | 'The Dark Knight Rises’: ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ With Christian Bale 2012-07-18T17:49:45Z

“One minute for the cross-talk, guys,” the producer would say, using the show’s term of art for the back-and-forth that follows the scripted reviews. Arts & Leisure Preview: Is There a Future for Arts Criticism? 2010-03-31T18:33:00Z

And it was hilarious, which is which is hard for a script to be. Janelle James Loves Being a Bad Boss in ‘Abbott Elementary’ 2022-04-11T04:00:00Z

The film's producer Rebecca O'Brien said the film's script represented "natural" language spoken by young people. Ken Loach bemoans censors' cuts 2012-05-22T15:42:09Z

A stage manager printed out the script and Scott highlighted his lines. On Broadway, a playwright becomes an actor, saving a show 2021-12-24T05:00:00Z

He brought in Mike O’Malley, whose script credits include “Shameless” but who may be better known for his acting roles in “Glee” and “Yes, Dear,” to write and serve as show runner. LeBron James’s Experiences Inspire ‘Survivor’s Remorse’ 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z

I try to rewrite scripts all the time. Oh, Dewey, Where Would You Put Me? 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z

Our scripts, the storylines we expect, can confine us. Column: Real or fake? It's hard to tell anymore 2013-02-11T11:01:06Z

At each, a preshow announcer made the same dad joke, attributing the script to “an up-and-coming playwright,” William Shakespeare. Making Shakespeare Their Own, Serious and Silly 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z

While it may seem unfair to judge a movie using a calculation, it’s appropriate for a script that repeatedly falls back on formulas. Review: In ‘Mountain Men,’ Two Brothers Are Forced to Work Things Out 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z

And the amount of pressure on set is incredible too, because if anyone has a question about anything in the script, all eyes are on you, no-one else. Comedian puts Hebburn on TV map 2012-10-02T13:20:33Z

We took apart the script and we talked about it and we talked about ourselves, our families, and we did some improvisations. 'The Judge' stars, director and producer reexamine the evidence 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z

Fact, fantasy and science fiction mingle in this script, which unites an imagined Civil War soldier with the real-life artificial intelligence pioneer Ada Lovelace. Theater Listings for Oct. 16-22 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z

Ms. Morgan’s chronological charts for the screen — scripts that portray past and present, more or less side by side — have made her the flavor of the day in high-middle-brow entertainment here. Critic?s Notebook: In London Theater, the Past Isn?t Dead, It?s Onstage 2012-02-03T23:49:33Z

Mr. Spielberg was pleased with the new script — so pleased, in fact, that he hit the brakes. In the Shadows of a Giant and Dinosaurs 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z

"I'm never starting a movie again when the script is ridiculous." Can 'Aloha's' first eight minutes on YouTube help the Sony film? 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z

“I think they looked at about 300 scripts,” Mr. Ricketts said. Investing in a Conspiracy of a Past Century 2011-04-10T00:51:39Z

Based on a Marcel Pagnol film, “The Baker’s Wife,” scripted by Joseph Stein, is a folk tale set in a gossipy village, much like Stein’s “Fiddler on the Roof.” Revival of 'The Baker's Wife' wafts freshly baked aromas at Actors Co-op 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z

But, she said, she disagreed: While alcoholism and depression derailed her at times, she wrote, they “did not prevent her from being wildly successful, the multitalented author of verse, stories, plays, movie scripts and criticism.” Marion Meade, Biographer of Dorothy Parker, Dies at 88 2023-01-22T05:00:00Z

As well as handing over Comedians, Seinfeld has signed a production deal with Netflix, which will include performing two stand-up specials, and developing scripted and nonscripted content, the New York Times reports. Jerry Seinfeld's 'Comedians in Cars' Is Heading to Netflix 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z

When Jackson saw the script for the wedding, she teared up. True Romance: Janet Mock on the Final Season of ‘Pose’ 2021-04-30T04:00:00Z

Ultimately, the best way of building gender inclusivity into scripts is to get women to write them. 'Peep Show with female losers? Bring it on!' – Sam Bain on why comedy needs diversity 2019-05-25T04:00:00Z

Televisions blast headlines, sports scores and scripted comedy in the checkout lines of grocery stores, in every bar, and even at pumps of some gas stations. Donald Trump and the hobbling of shame: David Foster Wallace warned us about reality TV and we didn’t listen 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z

Those factors make the choice to buttress the script's facts with filmed input from academics sensible, if a bit of a letdown. With "African Queens: Njinga" a previously overlooked history spectacularly springs into action 2023-02-15T05:00:00Z

After reading the script for season seven, Maisie Williams went to Twitter to voice her excitement, telling fans that “nothing will prepare you for this,” according to the Hollywood Reporter. Game of Thrones' Maisie Williams: 'Nothing Will Prepare You' for Season 7 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z

He remembered Falk as a "brilliant" actor and "an amazingly wonderful, crazy guy," and said a script was in place for a two-hour "Columbo" special, but Falk's illness made the project impossible. Peter Falk, TV's rumpled Columbo, has died 2011-06-25T11:45:14Z

Mr. Shyamalan’s script tries to keep the audience guessing in more ways than one. With ‘The Visit,’ M. Night Shyamalan Returns to His Filmmaking Roots 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z

Here, Isenberg gives us the soup-to-nuts on “Casablanca,” dutifully making his way through script, casting, production and reception, to the inevitable squabbling over credit, all the while trying to account for its enduring popularity. You Must Remember This: Why We Return to ‘Casablanca’ and ‘High Noon’ 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z

There will always be the part for some old geezer in the corner of the script. Anthony Hopkins: 'Every day I think about quitting' 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z

He produced and directed most of his films, thereby rendering explicit his supervisory role, especially regarding the choice of stories and their development into scripts and, then, into movies. Movie of the Week: “Laura” 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z

The script is very different from how it started. Danielle Macdonald’s Star Turn in ‘Patti Cake$’ Is the Buzz of Sundance 2017-01-22T05:00:00Z

They came to me with a script that they had already written, a film that was going, and if I wasn't going to be in it, someone else was going to be playing the part. Tilda Swinton, rock star of the art house 2010-06-19T18:01:00Z

It may have implied in the script, but it was mostly my doing, I guess. Breaking Bad’s Tio Salamanca: “My Bell is Worth More than Walter White’s Underwear” 2013-09-27T09:45:43Z

The lines are those of people conversing about what might happen as they read the scripts, which are passed around in accordance with stage directions, and what it might mean. ‘We Are Still Watching,’ by Ivana Müller, Compels Participation 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z

Certainly, when I was reading the script, you think it's going to take you one way. Kelly Macdonald talks to Salon about stepping into a starring role with “Puzzle” 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z

The show weaves songs from Bob Dylan’s songbook with Mr. McPherson’s script to create a haunting tale of desperate lives. 72 Plays and Musicals to See This Fall and Beyond 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z

American Century has prided itself on presenting rarely staged scripts and remounting plays that, while they may have historical significance, can be tricky to produce. Curtain falling on American Century Theater, with 2014-2015 its final season

He spent hours viewing archival footage and reading transcripts of the police interviews, portions of which are used in the script. Dominic West in ?Appropriate Adult? on Sundance Channel 2011-12-04T03:49:03Z

It’s a drawing-room comedy, yet the script is deeply serious about its three sisters — women of a certain age, and American Jews adrift in London. Wasserstein’s “Sisters Rosensweig” coasts on comedy at Theater J 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z

“The Tale of RJ” happened to reach MTV at a time about two years ago when the network was looking to reassert itself as a broadcaster of scripted shows as well as reality programs. Television: MTV?s ?RJ Berger?: Young, Gifted and Getting Even 2010-05-22T07:15:00Z

The location manager would scour and find different things and I would write them into the script. At SXSW, ‘Hardcore Henry’ Stars You and Film Fans Cheer 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z

As soon as Garcia read the script, he knew he wanted to produce the film. Andy Garcia: the outsider 2010-07-19T06:59:00Z

When Wainwright was 24, she was offered the chance to write trial scripts for the radio serial The Archers. From The Archers to HBO: how Sally Wainwright conquered TV 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z

Yelchin never got the letter but he did receive the script. Director Victor Levin's French encounter led to '5 to 7' 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z

But the tightly scripted installment, crafted in the mold of 20-something reunion movies like St. Elmo's Fire and The Big Chill, pushes the gang's story into its most emotionally grounded territory yet. Michael Showalter on the Mature Side of Wet Hot American Summer 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z

TIME’s Editor Nancy Gibbs helped Rose flip the script at the Chautauqua Institution in western New York, where the two took the stage for Gibbs to ask Rose a few questions. 8 Things We Learned About Charlie Rose When Nancy Gibbs Turned the Tables on Him 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z

What is kind of unheard of is the part about a foreign government stipulating specific creative changes to the very script and story. 'SPECTRE' Producers So Desperate for Money They're Taking $20 Million to Make Mexico Look Better 2015-03-15T04:00:00Z

But Bell is actually too convincing at playing a damaged woman saddled with dialogue that's only slightly screwier than what we'd encounter in a Lifetime movie script. No amount of wine can make "The Woman in the House" spoof work, despite its charismatic star 2022-01-29T05:00:00Z

No small wonder then that the filmmakers were scrambling to fix an ending that readers of the leaked script felt was difficult to follow and at times both nonsensical and bland. Sony Hack Reveals Concerns Over New Bond Movie's Script 2014-12-13T05:00:00Z

With all respect, the scripts I see sometimes for movies... Carice van Houten: ‘I feel like my back is straightening when I become Melisandre’ 2016-06-05T04:00:00Z

For most of its history, the biggest sin within pro wrestling was to admit that it was scripted. Inside the secret world of pro-wrestling: The media’s complicated relationship to a controversial sport 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z

On that point and others, the script stays fairly faithful to the novel’s plot and its weighty questions. Theater Review: ‘Monster,‘ From Potomac Theater Project, at Atlantic Stage 2 2012-07-13T22:40:30Z

As the script points out, he was so embarrassed and humiliated about this feeling of having done something so ugly, he decided that was it. Yale library acquires 'lost' Eugene O'Neill script 2011-10-19T22:16:03Z

But most studios are deeply reluctant to bet on these kinds of scripts, preferring to funnel money toward less risky comedies and fantasy films. New Venture Envisions Films Based on Gritty Journalism 2014-05-06T19:05:34Z

Though she was no more than 5 when filming, Ms. Park works the script like a mini-Sarah Bernhardt. Movie Review: Young Koreans Try to Survive an Epidemic in ‘Flu’ 2013-09-06T00:51:41Z

The Moment of Truth" and "The Biggest Loser" around the world: "Reality TV already has pushed the envelope, long before scripted, but there still are limits. Primetime TV shows to get racier after court ruling 2010-07-16T04:44:00Z

Apparently the script had the cast in stitches – watching the film is more like being in casualty. Mark Kermode's DVD round-up 2013-03-03T00:05:21Z

Never one to follow a script, the nice Jewish girl from Brooklyn, a fierce liberal and diehard Democrat, has lived in this fire-engine-red state for more than three decades. Carole King’s musical odyssey 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z

But they have strayed a little from the script. There Are 'Game of Thrones' Pop-Up Feasts in San Francisco 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z

The script, though, doesn’t give her a whole lot of material with which to credibly enact her character’s crisis. Review: In ‘Proud Mary,’ Taraji P. Henson Is a Hit Woman With a Soft Spot 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z

Lohan even helped work it into the script, when she changed a scripted fat joke about Monroe. Lindsay Lohan: From 'Machete' to the 'Most Offensive' Movie Ever 2010-09-04T02:50:00Z

In addition to excerpts from his many hours of interviews with Mr. Marx, the book included photographs and illustrations, as well as playbills, reviews, advertisements, family scrapbook entries and pages from film scripts. Richard Anobile, Chronicler of the Marx Brothers, Dies at 76 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z

So far, they just seem like foils to humanize Dash, but it could be that, as in the tank, the three could be more effective when the script ultimately brings them together. Review: In ‘Minority Report,’ a Case of Precognitive Dissonance 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z

“When Taylor was shopping the script around, he was approached by one financier who said, ‘It is a done deal if you just make her a guy. Women Flip the Script on Hollywood 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

Before they shared a bed, Fellini asked for her advice on the script, she says, and made sure she saw a rough cut of the film. Germaine Greer breaks cover on tryst with Federico Fellini 2010-04-11T19:47:00Z

I always said I only have 10 scripts in me... Kevin Smith: Why He's Going Rogue with Red State 2011-02-04T00:05:00Z

When Arnold got to the table read for the episode he immediately looked for his part in the script. Meet the Actor Who Made Don Draper Cry on 'Mad Men' 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z

And while the film never earns its unruly cast of A-listers, which includes “Shake It Off” singer Taylor Swift, it’s admittedly fun to watch them all read a script together. Ranking: Valentine’s Day Films From Worst to Best 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z

When I read the script, I knew you had to feel everyone's death in this film. "We leave these places in ruins": How the white lens on "Kandahar" reflects the human cost 2023-05-26T04:00:00Z

Examples of receiving help, whether it be onscreen or off, from community or mental health professionals, are extremely important in order to flip the script. From "Rye Lane" to "Love Is Blind," much-needed safe spaces for Black male vulnerability are on TV 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z

Jung’s script walks this same line between early modern and contemporary, leaving some tranches of the play intact, but zhuzhing up other parts with new vocabulary and new jokes. Review: A ‘Romeo and Juliet’ That Clowns Around With Tragedy 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z

Instead of basing the musical on the jokey-thin film and sitcom scripts for previous Addams attractions, he pondered how to erect a strong plot out of a great cartoonist's pithy punch lines and visual gags. From cartoon frame to 5th Avenue Stage: 'The Addams Family' (snap, snap!) 2012-10-17T21:51:13Z

Yet this collection of 23 radio scripts, edited with scholarly annotation by Tony Medawar and Douglas Greene, is nearly as much fun just to read. Review | Old mysteries and adventure stories deliver a dose of Grand Guignol theatricality and nonstop comic-book action 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z

Occasionally we wouldn’t have a completed script or even a completed scene. ArtsBeat: Portia de Rossi on the Return of ‘Arrested Development’ 2013-05-23T17:56:38Z

But maybe audiences will forgive the clunky pacing and derivative scenes in those episodes, since "The Morning Show" less about the script than the performances and the star power. Assessing the Apple TV+ new series, from "The Morning Show" to "For All Mankind" 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z

Instead, Stone’s script allows him to do something far more profound. The kids are all wrong 2012-05-29T15:20:00Z

The BFI National Archive yesterday announced that it had acquired more than 60 boxes of letters, scripts, notes, receipts and photographs covering Lester's 40 year career in the TV and movie business. Richard Lester archive donated to BFI full of 'riches' 2010-08-22T23:01:00Z

When she submitted a script with new, melodramatic lines written for Ms. Fawcett, Mr. Nevius returned it covered with red ink. The Long Goodbye 2011-05-27T20:36:29Z

Dance is all over this script — from the Viennese waltz to the dance of the bamboulas. Sightseeing for History (With a Few Selfies Along the Way) 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z

He has also collaborated on TV scripts and is writing a screenplay. Surgeon, ultrarunner, thriller writer… meet the man who lives life to the full 2019-08-17T04:00:00Z

Essentially, he insists, he’s the person he was before he won his Oscar for the Good Will Hunting script back in 1998. Ben Affleck: ‘My wildest dreams have come true, but at a price’ 2017-01-01T05:00:00Z

Meanwhile, Universal Pictures, which pays Working Title’s script development costs and finances most of its movies, went through management turmoil. Working Title Films Looks to ‘Les Misérables’ for Oscars 2012-12-06T23:07:45Z

With several other drafts of the script, it lay in the archives for decades. CBS Blocks Use of Unused ?Star Trek? Script by Spinrad 2012-03-28T22:25:24Z

It helped to reestablish New York City as a viable hub for scripted series, drawing on its deep bench of theater actors. Sam Waterston Is Still the Face of ‘Law & Order’ 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z

It’s commonplace for Quentin Tarantino to court controversy every time he releases a film, for his trademark gruesome violence and frequent use of the N-word in his scripts. Quentin Tarantino wants to 'go further' with his anti-police violence protests 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z

That was already in the script so I can’t take any credit for being like, Oh hey, let’s wave some rainbow flags. Anna Paquin on Bad Behavior and Keeping the Drama Onscreen 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z

Even though Mr. Linson says that almost all of Mr. Ross’s jokes were cut from the script, a roast-comic voice remains in the movie, now side by side with a new sensibility. How Robert De Niro Learned to Become ‘The Comedian’ 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z

The script, while often mournful, allows him to show a playful side and a gift, neglected in Hollywood, for physical comedy. ‘Walking With Ghosts’ Review: Gabriel Byrne Roams His Past 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z

“You have to realise, when I was making this I didn’t carry a script around,” he says. Francis Ford Coppola: 'Apocalypse Now is not an anti-war film' 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z

I just gave her a script and she went with it. L.A. artist Marnie Weber reflects on why monsters hold such power for women 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z

She doesn’t do much with Wednesday’s mean-girl punch lines, which is at least partly the fault of the writing — they drop into the script like stones. ‘Wednesday’ Review: The Strange Girl Is on the Case 2022-11-22T05:00:00Z

MacLean was initially hired as a script consultant on the film — tutoring some of the actors on whiskey appreciation — before being asked to appear on-screen. Library of Congress taps 25 sounds for registry 2012-05-23T14:47:00Z

People keep asking me that, but in terms of plot and character the script is so considered, which is really inspiring for me as an actor. From 3rd Rock's floppy-haired alien to Leonardo DiCaprio's gravity-defying assistant in Inception 2010-07-16T23:05:00Z

“Homecoming,” the podcast network’s first scripted thriller, is now headed to Amazon, and this time, “our fingerprints are all over it creatively,” Mr. Lieber said. Podcasts Get the Hollywood Treatment, Complete With Zach Braff 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z

When I read the finale script, I thought it was a beautiful, poignant way to say goodbye to these characters. Josh Radnor: "People Who Stuck With the Series" Got "HIMYM" finale 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z

Maybe they didn’t like the script either, but it certainly was the subject matter. Sigourney Weaver Has Us All Fooled: She’s Really Quite Silly 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z

Spielberg was so enamored with the footage of the unexpected turn of events, he had the script rewritten to accommodate it, altering Hooper’s fate from shark bait to survivor as the animal thrashed overhead. The Woman Who Captured ‘Jaws,’ Then Worked to Undo the Damage 2021-07-27T04:00:00Z

Waltz spent a lot of time at Tarantino's house, reading the script as it was written. Django Unchained: tackling Lincoln-era America on film 2013-01-25T06:59:01Z

This being a television show, things must happen — and sometimes the scripting shows. Kids, transgender parents are heart of ABC Family's 'Becoming Us' 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z

Other notable titles under her tenure include "Teen Mom," "Jersey Shore" and, under her production banner, scripted fare such as current hit "Teen Wolf." Lifetime taps MTV alum Liz Gateley as head of programming 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z

On paper, she’s an intriguing quasi-partner, a cerebral foil to the methodical Hays, but the script never develops her beyond an accessory to his story. Review: ‘True Detective’ Circles Back, Flatly 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z

I got a script from her like two months later. ArtsBeat: Tribeca: Juliette Binoche on Acting From Insecurity 2012-04-25T14:17:19Z

He sent me a spec script out of the blue. "Nitram" director was "terrified" of tackling mass shooting that changed Australian gun laws forever 2022-03-30T04:00:00Z

I was biked my first script and was like: “Oh my God.” Juno Temple's teenage obsessions: 'Brandon Flowers was the most beautiful thing I'd ever seen' 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z

How far in advance of production do you read the scripts? Downton Abbey's Costume Designer on How to Dress Like an Edwardian 2012-02-19T21:00:25Z

If in the middle of these rages I had to constantly look down at my script, I would have stripped my vocal gears on the very first day. Learning 'Lear': When To Hold Back, When to Let Go 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z

In “The Hundred-Foot Journey,” script writers made a point of incorporating real traditions of French and Indian cuisine. Food in movies: These days, it’s about more than just making you hungry

Her dream — it’s actually a note on the final page of her script — is that there will be cake for audience members at the end of each performance. From ‘This is Us’ to ‘The Cake,’ Bekah Brunstetter Has a Full Plate 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z

A 10-part scripted series based on the Ten Commandments is also in the works. Weinstein Co. looks to spin off its television division 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z

The book he is publishing next week started life as a film script, but ended up as a novel. Love is the best revenge for the evils of the Holocaust 2016-03-26T04:00:00Z

The first word that came to Yeoh’s mind after reading the script was “insane.” Michelle Yeoh shows Asian immigrant women are ‘Everything’ 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z

"She could read an entire script just once and be word perfect." Tributes to Corrie's Anne Kirkbride 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z

Writing was tricky, though, as he and Gardiner tried collaborating on another script. After Broadway heights of ‘Glory Days,’ back home with ‘Soon’ 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z

Coolidge would often read a script then approach White about her character’s actions. In ‘The White Lotus,’ Mike White Takes You on Vacation 2021-07-09T04:00:00Z

The difference was instantly apparent when I was dropped off in Al Nour Square, where traffic flows in a circle around a sculpture forming the Arabic script for Allah. Frugal Traveler: In Lebanon, in Search of Music, Souks and Home 2011-07-26T18:56:44Z

He doesn't claim to transform a script, but he wants you to be there throughout the shooting, which is quite unusual. Cheers for Frears 2010-08-14T23:05:00Z

A sculptural representation of a bookworm — 140 feet of scripts and songbooks, twisted along a steel skeleton — corkscrews across the Drama Book Shop in Manhattan. How Lin-Manuel Miranda and Friends Made an Old Bookstore New 2021-06-06T04:00:00Z

McNamara's scripts soar with effervescent humor and cleverness that Fanning amplifies with a sense of dignified, wry nonchalance. "The Great" is the cheeky post-enlightment balm we've been waiting for 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z

I’m just writing a script now and I’m planning on getting to that in the New Year, so we’ll see. Director Sofia Coppola the Very 'Joyful' A Very Murray Christmas 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z

It’s not simply a dearth of scripts for women of a certain age in the industry, it’s also Sarandon being understandably picky. Susan Sarandon: 'It’s an easy place to put your frustrations, to blame me' 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z

But when I read this script, by the time I got to page five, I knew I wanted to be in it. Anna Maxwell Martin: 'Loads of women's drama is really dumbed down' 2013-01-06T00:06:48Z

The critics, including Theodore C. Sorensen, a former Kennedy adviser, say they have read the scripts for the project and that those contain errors of fact and emphasis. 2010-02-16T23:30:00Z

It’s easy to spot the clues in the script, by its stars Daniel Arnold and Medina Hahn: the small indiscretions that anticipate bigger ones, the mysterious family tragedies with questionable veracity, the warnings of death. | 'Any Night': When Sleep Opens the Door to the Dark Side 2011-06-10T22:46:24Z

Their movie debut is a fairly successful effort to apply the tone and comic style of those hastily produced weekly shorts to a feature-length script with an actual plot. Review: ‘Smosh: The Movie’ Wades Through YouTube’s Shallows 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z

Though paper scripts have been replaced by screens, you often see the actors scanning them anxiously for lines. In Virtual Readings, Less (a Lot Less) Is Sometimes More 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z

It’s cluttered with boxes, toys, records, scripts, magazines, sports memorabilia and various items of pop-culture detritus. ‘Life is messy’: Judd Apatow on Freaks and Geeks, Lena Dunham and his return to standup 2017-07-08T04:00:00Z

Well, when I first got the script, you usually read it without any preconceived notions or expectations. "Connected through inyeon": Teo Yoo reflects on the fate that guided his career and to "Past Lives" 2023-07-02T04:00:00Z

A lawyer for Dramatic Publishing expressed confidence that the company and its Sergel script retain exclusive rights to “Mockingbird” in most settings beyond Broadway and the national tour. Courtroom Drama: New Legal Battle Over ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z

Braben became a full-time comedy writer in the 1950s, and produced scripts for many of the comedians of the time, including fellow Liverpudlian Dodd. Eric and Ernie's writer Braben dies 2013-05-21T11:01:22Z

Usually scripts get written slowly, by writers who know there's no hurry, and then kick around for another four or five years, and the glacial pace can drive you insane. For Nick Hornby, adapting 'Wild' was a fast-paced uphill hike 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z

Q: You mentioned that you first read this script many years ago, when you were still deciding whether to become a parent, and reread it years later after your daughter was born. In ‘Egg,’ questions about parenthood might make audiences uncomfortable. That’s the idea. 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z

Spielberg sent him a copy of the script "with the word 'eviscerate' scrawled across the title page. I sent a lengthy memo of what the script needed." Carl Gottlieb took a bit out of 'Jaws' script and created a monster hit 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z

Writing scripts works in much the same fashion. Paolo and Vittorio Taviani Direct ‘Caesar Must Die’ 2013-02-01T22:41:18Z

By the time he started holding script readings, Colón-Zayas, who met Guirgis when they were students at State University of New York at Albany, had been visiting the Riverside Drive apartment for decades. The Riverside Drive Apartment Where a Broadway Play Was Born 2023-01-10T05:00:00Z

Another, based on a 2010 script, told a story about the racial dynamics of college basketball in the 1960s. Hollywood Was Just One of His Stages 2014-02-03T22:48:07Z

To preserve the identity of the killer, Craven and Williamson are operating under several layers of secrecy, including not sending the script to agencies. "Scream 4" brings on more fresh blood 2010-07-01T05:14:00Z

That was Mr. Weiner’s experience at “The Sopranos,” where he was hired on the strength of the unproduced pilot script of “Mad Men.” Television: Matthew Weiner Is Silent on ?Mad Men? Season Premiere 2012-03-07T12:55:00Z

Gillian Jacobs: I think there was a lot of it that was scripted, and then there’s probably a lot of moments in there that are just us goofing around that they kept in. Gillian Jacobs Learned 'Community' Was Moving to Yahoo Like the Rest of Us 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z

The opening scenes suggest a comic "Bad News Bears" energy that's more than welcome, and some of the actors are clearly having a swell time, but the script fails to back them up with conviction. Your guide to SIFF 2011 2011-05-18T20:00:54Z

When Alice walks into a ward filled in an instant with wounded men, Ms. Flood’s eyes transmit horror and courage far more eloquently than the script. ‘Anzac Girls’ Is Based on a True Story From World War I 2014-10-05T04:00:00Z

People ask me how I learn the script, or whether I'm reading from an autocue. Mary Beard: So much for TV dumbing down 2013-07-13T08:01:02Z

Though greatly abridged, the script is quite faithful to the story beats of the original play. Why Is ‘Cyrano’ Still So Potent? Ask Anyone Who’s Loved at All. 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z

It isn’t only his words that are better than those of the screenwriters; his persona, his character, is greater than those that are scripted. Just Let Marlon Brando Talk 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z

Her next show was Hamish Macbeth, and I was promoted to script editor and writer on that series. Entering the Intergenerational Foundation film competition? Read on 2013-02-13T09:00:03Z

The star of "Bass Ackwards," a captivatingly laconic road movie, isn't necessarily Linas Phillips, the Seattle filmmaker who also conceived the script and directs himself as a scruffy seeker with a troubled soul. 'Bass Ackwards': Salvation through a VW van 2010-06-11T00:01:00Z

Sevigny jokes that the American indie movie industry has fallen on hard times; she remembers a point when she could barely move for new scripts. Chloë Sevigny: ‘I now have total disdain for directors’ 2016-05-14T04:00:00Z

Mr. Demme had never directed a play before, and the opening night of “Family Week” was delayed for a week as he and Ms. Henley continued reworking the script and honing the production. Rosemarie DeWitt Explores Family Friction 2010-05-18T21:11:00Z

Instead, she speaks eagerly about a script she and Feild are collaborating on about US war veterans and their struggles to fit back into society. Neve Campbell: ‘Everything about US politics makes me proud to be Canadian’ 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z

The former “House” star said she was married the day before she moved to Vancouver, British Columbia, to begin working on the scripted series about a marriage dissolving. New bride Edelstein takes on ‘Guide to Divorce’ 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z

He wrote the script almost simultaneously with that for Moonlight, on a trip to Europe in the summer of 2013. Barry Jenkins: ‘When you climb the ladder, you send it back down’ 2019-02-09T05:00:00Z

“Our reviews weren’t strong when we opened in Detroit, and so Gower broke the script into eight large chunks and began rewriting it. Throughout that process, Carol was finding out who that character was.” Well, Hello, Dollys! 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z

I'm looking at a lot of scripts, and there are some cool things. Oscars 2015: 'Boyhood's' Ellar Coltrane balances fame and the future 2015-02-21T05:00:00Z

So finally, in an attempt at sustainability, Baron Cohen quit the prank interviews altogether, first with The Dictator, a half-funny scripted comedy about the petulant tyrant of a fictional African state, then with Grimsby. Is it cos I is wack? The rise and fall of Sacha Baron Cohen 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z

“And not just the execution of the mother,” Mr. Garcia said, “but the execution of the actual script.” When Hope Is a Thing With Diapers 2010-09-17T18:28:00Z

Hitting the bull’s eye of relevance in evil times is a tough business for a scripted series like “The Handmaid’s Tale,” especially given the fact that there is no other series like it on TV. "The Handmaid's Tale" is so brilliant and relevant that I can't stand it 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z

Ms. Thorington began her pioneering work in the 1970s as a writer interested in expanding her short stories and scripts into impressionistic radio dramas. Helen Thorington, Who Brought Sonic Art to the Airwaves, Dies at 94 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z

After working as a BBC script editor, Marks became one of its most eminent drama producers, mainly of single plays. Louis Marks obituary 2010-10-07T17:24:00Z

Sarah Phelps, who wrote the script for “A Very British Scandal,” said that the duchess’s case and the media furor around it represented “the end of an era.” A Duchess Brought Low by ‘A Very British Scandal’ 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z

Abbott has two more scripts he's working on, as well as an upcoming project with Danny Boyle, but the small screen remains his number one priority. Shameless creator Paul Abbott: 'People are desperate to be scared' 2012-10-05T15:00:00Z

However old the script may be, it impresses us with its newness, its aliveness to our own present circumstances, even as it confesses its embeddedness in the predetermined past. The joy of literary destruction: Writers who broke all the rules 2014-01-19T15:00:00Z

Ephron’s best scripts offered the comfort of an old-fashioned love story in what felt like a fizzy, urbane contemporary setting. Nora Ephron’s romantic-comedy revolution 2012-06-27T16:35:00Z

And I remembered what had excited me so much about Rostand’s script when I was a boy. Review: James McAvoy’s Rapping Cyrano Dazzles With Words 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z

The production was so secretive that many of the actors were never shown the entire script. Greta Gerwig in Noah Baumbach’s ‘Frances Ha’ 2013-05-08T16:00:02Z

We may be used to seeing paintings of nude human bodies inside museums, but artist Andy Golub is flipping the script. WATCH: The brave nude world of a body-painting artist: “When people see naked people in public, they’re disarmed” 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z

Champlin labeled Robert Shaw “a poor man’s Captain Ahab,” slammed the script, but most of all, he detested the violence. L.A. Times' original 1975 review of 'Jaws' unearthed: We hated it 2015-06-20T04:00:00Z

When I first read the script I thought that's the part to be, always wry and sardonic. Star Wars original cast looked 'a little melted' for Episode VII – Carrie Fisher 2014-05-25T04:00:00Z

Of course the ideal thing is to find the projects where every element is there, but certainly there are directors I would work with maybe not even reading a script. "The Tender Bar" star Lily Rabe on "confident" director George Clooney: "He's a great leader" 2022-01-09T05:00:00Z

They have these incredible scripts, but it’s never them. Katharine Hamnett: ‘Getting old is a licence to kill’ 2018-10-27T04:00:00Z

He doesn’t speak English and the script doesn’t speak coherence, so their plans are necessarily vague. ‘Monster Hunter’ Review: Beasts of Boredom 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z

He described a script in utilitarian terms, as “something dead,” “a structure you need for a film.” Tonino Guerra, Italian Screenwriter and Poet, Dies at 92 2012-03-23T04:08:37Z

“I didn’t read the script before I said ‘yes’ because I was so desperate to work with Night,” she said. Director M. Night Shyamalan merges past storylines in new movie... 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z

The movie was directed by Icelandic former actor Baltasar Kormakur, who said he was drawn to the film by the characters and the modern Western feel of the script. Who knew? Denzel Washington reveals comedic flair in '2 Guns' 2013-07-31T18:39:05Z

Martin, who consulted on the series and vetted scripts, wouldn’t mind if the new show represented everyone. ‘The Baby-Sitters Club’ Is Back: Help Yourself to the Fridge 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z

Critics swooned over the crackling dialogue, the slow-paced but clever script and the stunning cinematography. Zoya Akhtar and Farah Khan, Bollywood Directors 2011-09-04T04:23:03Z

In addition to its archival and scripted elements, the documentary features heartfelt conversations between Fox and director Davis Guggenheim. “Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie”: 6 major revelations from Michael J. Fox’s new documentary 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z

If the scripts weren't so smart, and Cuoco weren't as assured in selling Cassie's messiness, we'd be screaming and groaning at the screen. "The Flight Attendant," Kaley Cuoco's new first class thriller, is a darkly satisfying ride 2020-11-26T05:00:00Z

Perrotta, who wrote the novel the series is based on as well as the pilot script, never specifies how Brendan becomes the lunkhead that he is. The sexual frustration of "Mrs. Fletcher" 2019-10-27T04:00:00Z

A movie of cold light and hard surfaces, “Voyagers” owes its antiseptic glamour to the cinematographer Enrique Chediak, whose talents far outclass Burger’s underdeveloped script. ‘Voyagers’ Review: In Space, Everyone Can Hear You Scream 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z

He even delivered a lecture at the College Art Association that took the form of a five-minute scripted conversation with a coyote. At the Aldrich Museum, the Coyote Takes the Lead 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z

He took the idea to Lear, who wrote the script, setting the show in a blue-collar household in Queens. Bud Yorkin, innovative TV producer and director, dies at 89 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z

I knew something was going to happen, but the script just said there was a demonstration and they arrested some hippies. Haskell Wexler, Oscar-Winning Cinematographer, Dies at 93 2015-12-27T05:00:00Z

They did not qualify under the guild's stringent rules - which require that scripts be written by a WGA member and produced under WGA jurisdiction. Guardians joins screenplay shortlist 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z

I was much more comfortable working on my buddy script about two 12-year-olds who go to Vegas and beat the mob. I wrote my way to true love 2013-02-14T01:00:00Z

The script is also in part autobiographical, about a parent-child relationship. What to Do With an Absent Father? Cast Him as a Character Onstage. 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z

The organization commissions plays with environmental themes, paying the writers and then providing the scripts free to theater companies, schools or any other groups that want to stage readings or productions. Amid Climate Talks, an Actor’s Call to Action Unfolds Onstage 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z

This is, as the script says, “a beautiful sentiment.” At River to River Festival, Dancing Amid the Mundane and Majestic 2018-06-17T04:00:00Z

The network started a blog on which they publish the scripts for each episode. ‘Outlander’ Season 2, Episode 7: Of Love and Sacrifice 2016-05-21T04:00:00Z

I think he's had to color-code the script to make the delineation between the world of imagination and the world of reality. Colin Farrell's fairy tale ending 2010-05-02T18:01:00Z

The prompts in the script elicited only bits of us, but they were enough. Strangers on a Phone, Theatrically Speaking 2020-11-11T05:00:00Z

Rob Burnett,  executive producer of “The Late Show With David Letterman,” will direct, and is adapting the script. ‘The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving,' the movie version 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z

He curses as imaginatively as a Scotsman in an Iannucci script, and, despite his perfect vision, he wears glasses on camera, for style. The Arrest of a Teen-Aged YouTube Star 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z

Gems’s script proposes using a set that is “not naturalistic” and “neutral in atmosphere,” which might have given the play a more abstract, poetic quality, in the manner of Caryl Churchill’s history-scrambling “Top Girls.” ArtsBeat: London Theater Journal: Change in the Air 2013-07-12T16:58:10Z

Hawkes stars as Mark O'Brien, the Berkeley, Calif.-based poet and journalist whose 1990 article, "On Seeing a Sex Surrogate," inspired the script. Review: `Sessions' tells feel-good, low-key tale 2012-10-15T22:38:11Z

Every time I shoot a student/teacher scene, I’m baffled at how the scripts never change. I was a horrible hooker: Schoolgirl outfits, wealthy execs and Hawaii — Asa Akira remembers her two escort experiences 2014-05-11T22:30:00Z

Most of the scripts that land on my desk are stuff you read and go, 'Is someone really gonna make this?' The secret life of Jason Statham 2013-06-21T13:00:00Z

The script was commissioned on the strength of that. How Radio 4 reopened The Iraq Dossier 2013-02-26T20:00:06Z

“It’s almost like the scripts are repeating themselves. The ratio of bad ones to good ones is 50 to 1.” How a Young Leonardo DiCaprio Predicted His Future 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z

Goodwin’s script avoids the obvious and expected, and it refuses to settle for easy answers. Two brothers, one Christian, one Muslim, try to bridge their worlds in 'Bars and Measures' 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z

Everyone knows that cities like New York, Boston and Chicago have flipped the script over the past couple of decades, turning richer and whiter as their surrounding suburbs grow more diverse. Urban entertainment districts: Blocks where no one has fun 2012-05-19T13:00:00Z

Now corner offices are occupied by people whose main backgrounds are in scripted entertainment, not reality. Reality TV facing its own reality: a ratings slump 2014-12-28T05:00:00Z

“I am not a scripted actress — I’m more of an off-the-cuff-type person,” she said. The Show Goes On for Arrested ‘Housewife’ Luann de Lesseps 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z

Yet neither Stoppard nor Beckett, as scripted here, seems sure of his stature, pre- or post-mortem. Review: In ‘Textplay,’ Stoppard and Beckett Get Snarky, FWIW 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z

The Margaux Hemingway thriller “Lipstick,” one of the few scripts he wrote in its entirety, ranked low on his list of favorites. David Rayfiel, Screenwriter With Sydney Pollack, Dies at 87 2011-06-23T04:19:30Z

He says they completed the script in December. Jodi Arias TV movie airs Saturday on Lifetime 2013-06-18T17:23:09Z

Rowling published the play's script as a book, which sold more than 3 million copies in North America in the first 10 days of its release. J.K. Rowling will explore Hogwarts in-depth in three new e-books 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z

The Arabic script was not checked by producers, they claimed. 'Homeland is racist': artists sneak subversive graffiti on to TV show 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z

Mr. Lynch returned to direct the finale — “I wanted to be the one to finish it” — and drastically rewrote the script. How ‘Twin Peaks’ Got Lost, and Found Its Way Back 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z

Q. The film opens with a documentary-style interview with Micky and Dicky that exposes their relationship, but that wasn’t in the original script? The Carpetbagger: Behind Camera, Checking the Ego 2010-12-08T23:38:00Z

And finally, an example showing that a script can start out as a standalone story then get turned into a potential sequel before being turned back into what it was in the first place. The sequel paradox: when studios rewrite movies to fit into a franchise 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z

The tomb chamber houses the emperor and his bride in highly decorated sarcophagi of marble and pietra dura, fashioned into exquisite floral patterns and calligraphy of Koranic script. The real magic of the Taj Mahal 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z

Season 2 does not lack for engaging components, although David E. Kelley doesn’t smoothly blend those parts into a riveting whole in his scripts. Where did the "Big Little Lies" spark go? 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z

The script is by Glover’s brother Stephen, also of “Atlanta,” but the story is credited to both men and three more “Atlanta” writers. ‘Guava Island’ Review: Donald Glover’s Island Getaway Is a Casual Charmer 2019-04-13T04:00:00Z

“Very nice and clean,” says the pretty maid with the artificial smile, speaking with the scripted sunniness of a corporate employee. Review: In the Hotel in ‘Zürich,’ Room Service Comes With a Bang 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z

To test this prediction, the author collaborated with an online auction house that agreed to systematically alternate its scripted language for encouraging continued bidding. Don’t trust the Godless 2012-07-01T15:00:00Z

Gawker published Tarantino’s 146-page script  Hateful Eight on its website Thursday. Tarantino said he was “very, very depressed” by the leak and announced he would shelve the project indefinitely. Quentin Tarantino is Suing Gawker After Script Leak 2014-01-27T17:16:08Z

Mr. Wolper admitted that he had let the officials see the film or read his script before it was broadcast, but insisted he had made no deletions and was not asked to make any. David L. Wolper, Producer of ?Roots? for TV, Dies 2010-08-12T04:30:00Z

So when the script arrived for “National Champions,” about a battle between the National Collegiate Athletic Association and student football players demanding fair compensation for their talents, Aduba was fast onboard. Uzo Aduba Adjusts Her Mood With Playlists and ‘The Real Housewives’ 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z

Often his manic humor and energy felt harnessed in scripted films and television shows. Robin Williams: Memorable lines from a stand-up comedian 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z

The play’s script is entirely prerecorded: The cast lip-sync to it throughout, looking detached and slightly robotic. At the Holland Festival, Many Shades of Strange 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z

Even when Trump is on his best behavior and following the script, he can’t help but throw in little asides, such as “believe me,” when he’s feeling a crowd rev up. The perilous high-wire act of writing speeches for Donald Trump 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z

The people he encounters seem genuinely thrilled to be in the presence of all that sunburn and chrome; at the very least, they don’t appear to be rehearsing lines off a script. The Accidental American Genius of Guy Fieri 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z

Advertisement The script revels in being contemporary and anachronistic at the same time. ‘Shear Madness,’ Detoured by Success, Is Ready for Its New York City Debut 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z

“Cursed Child” isn’t a new novel—it’s a script for the two-part play that’s currently being staged in London—but it’s being marketed, on its back cover, as “The eighth story. Nineteen years later.” Finally, a New Harry Potter Story Worth Reading 2016-08-08T04:00:00Z

This week mariakozhuhar sent in a reviewing delight: our first play script critique! Reader reviews roundup 2013-05-24T09:16:57Z

And I always end up saying, I can only put some of it down to the experience I had when I first read the script, which was, I wanted to know what happened next. Hugh Bonneville on the enduring charm of "Downton Abbey" and why he was nervous to film "Paddington" 2022-05-23T04:00:00Z

After a meeting, they sent a few scripts to the director but without much hope, as he hadn’t done television before, Stephen Cornwell said in a telephone interview. Park Chan-wook Brings His Art-House Eye to ‘The Little Drummer Girl’ 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z

If there's a good script and good people are involved, that's where I'm going. Edie Falco As an Attorney Ripped from the Headlines 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

I could have never written this script, in a million years, never imagined it. ‘This one is for Elijah’: Kweisi Mfume on trying to fill the seat for the deceased congressman 2020-03-16T04:00:00Z

"I was casting for characters that we were simultaneously cutting from the script." The movie set in a ladies' loo 2013-12-06T02:13:23Z

"With these incredibly talented strong women, I was really attracted to that when I read the script," he said. "The English Teacher" follows footsteps of "Weeds," "Nurse Jackie" 2013-04-25T14:01:08Z

At the time, Apple made the pledge even though the show had no script. ‘Game of Thrones’ Changed TV. Let Us Count the Ways. 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z

There's not like a writer sitting there and the actor's waiting for the script to arrive. Paula Pell, queen of comedy: On her "SNL" years, making "Wine Country" with Amy Poehler and more 2019-05-13T04:00:00Z

Departing from its usual true-crime reality fare, the network is unrolling “Heartbreakers,” which brings back stars from the past in scripted melodramas that happen to be based on true life. Vintage stars return for real-life ‘Heartbreakers’ 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z

Called “Rumors of War,” it flips the script on traditional statutes commemorating white generals. Artist Kehinde Wiley unveils bold sculpture in Times Square 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z

But not too long ago, he sent his big sister, Amy, a script, ostensibly to verify that it was formatted correctly. Greg Poehler Plays a Transplant in ‘Welcome to Sweden’ 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z

Early in their partnership, Husney and Eisener attempted to develop a scripted series in the style of “The Sopranos” or “Boogie Nights,” but were roundly turned down. ‘Heels’ Is a Family Drama, With Body Slams 2021-08-13T04:00:00Z

TIME: What was your reaction when you first read the script? David Oyelowo on the Role That Made Him a Method Actor 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z

And that was just from working on the script. On ‘Prodigal Son,’ Michael Sheen’s Father Knows, and Kills, Best 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z

After years of developing scripts and paying for the production, distribution and marketing of this first film, Aglialoro estimated he will have spent more than $20 million on "Atlas Shrugged" by the time it opens. 'Atlas Shrugged' finally comes to the screen 2011-04-10T05:00:00Z

After being raised by relatives, Forman joined the Prague Film Academy, and began writing scripts in the late 1950s, gradually moving up the ranks in the postwar Czechoslovak industry. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest director Milos Forman dies aged 86 2018-04-14T04:00:00Z

NBC employs embedded digital writers who work with the show’s regular writing staff to create additional material, while digital producers review scripts months in advance to scout for opportunities. How Parks and Rec Brings Pawnee to Life Online 2013-02-28T13:00:41Z

With strong performances from Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys as the spies, a beautifully shot pilot, which adeptly captures the feel of the early 1980s, and a great script, this is definitely one to catch. Girls, games and golden boys: what to watch on US TV in 2013 2013-01-04T16:14:02Z

“I was told how one studio head said in a meeting, ‘This script is fantastic. 'No one will know the difference': studio wanted Julia Roberts to play Harriet Tubman 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z

"I would like to thank the political establishment for giving me the opportunity of rewriting this script every ... day," jokes Matt Forde at the start of his show. Brexit 'fireworks' give comics rich pickings at Edinburgh 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z

LaChanze is incapable of musical insincerity, however insincere the script may be, and delivers the songs thrillingly, if not in the ethereal, seemingly tossed-off Summer manner. Review: Hot Stuff Turns Cold in ‘Summer: The Donna Summer Musical’ 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z

Parts of the script struck her as inappropriately sentimental. Noomi Rapace Arrives in Hollywood, by Way of Outer Space 2012-05-27T14:10:42Z

The charges come as a surprise to the production team behind “The Kennedys,” who say that the scripts for the eight-part series are still being rewritten and that any criticism of the project is premature. 2010-02-16T23:30:00Z

Perhaps more importantly, the NFL’s football operations team went through the script and made sure that its portrayal of the mechanisms of the draft would be spot-on. How the NFL Helped Make Draft Day a Super Accurate Sports Movie 2014-04-11T14:00:59Z

Photograph: Catherine Ashmore Behind the pane of glass there is a man, a boy, a microphone and their scripts. Don't touch that dial: the threat to radio drama 2010-06-20T20:45:00Z

Unlike so many movies that linger on women's bodies and male pleasure during sex scenes, this one drastically flips the script, using men almost to their breaking point for women's pleasure. "Wild and raunchy": "Joy Ride" delivers a full-frontal subversion of sexuality for Asian women 2023-07-10T04:00:00Z

McDonagh brings less conviction to some of the more jarring twists in the script. 'The Guard': Sparks fly as mismatched cops team up 2011-08-11T20:58:05Z

"This script process is likely to take at least a year, of course, so early stages as yet." Vampire story sucks in film bids 2012-02-09T00:56:59Z

I knew that they had to be in a book or a script. From Blog to Book: Kelly Oxford Talks About the Latest Chapters in Her Life 2013-04-02T11:00:31Z

All I seem to read at the moment is novels that have been optioned or ideas for scripts. Nick Cave: 'Lawless is not so much a true story as a true myth' 2012-08-25T23:05:50Z

Once people responded on Facebook that they were attending the show, Siéfert would study their public profiles to create a script based on them. Why Did Instagram Pause This Play? Its Creators Still Don’t Know. 2022-09-11T04:00:00Z

One of those books was Zama; it took her four years to finish the script, and she shot her film in 2015. Lucrecia Martel: 'The Oscars are a joke' 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z

The fact that The Teacher’s Pet wasn’t entirely scripted but unfolded week by week, he says, “made a big difference to the material that I started to discover”. As Making a Murderer returns, is the obsession with true crime turning nasty? 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z

Changes to the script were happening rapid-fire — cuts, modifications, making things clearer and more precise. We worked through the story together, taking it from private to public.  When a Playwright and His Play Are Separated 2010-06-11T18:00:00Z

Director Dominique Serrand first staged this in response to the 1990s chapter of the culture wars, and he doesn’t have to warp the script to make it dark. Taking on a fanatic with zeal in Molière’s ‘Tartuffe’ 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z

Sutton includes journalistic interviews with several of the film’s participants, whose discussion of their lives seems to be derived from their actual lives and not from a script. Two Important Documentaries from Sundance 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z

You have to remember it's not the book, ultimately, that you're shooting, but rather the scripted adaptation. Jim Broadbent, Matthew Macfadyen and Sam Claflin: three actors, one man 2010-11-21T06:00:00Z

The host respectfully fawned over Stewart, who presented him with a signed, original episode script from “Star Trek: The Next Generation.” Review | Buttigieg charms his way to another good grade while guest-hosting Kimmel’s show 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z

Pope wrote the script for Little Boy Blue after meeting the murder victim’s parents. 'We're all car-crash snoopers now': the truth about the TV true-crime wave 2017-03-04T05:00:00Z

The lawsuit also claims that musical arrangements, script, costumes and wigs all owe a debt to the previous production. Can't Let It Be: Battle of the Beatles tribute musicals 2013-07-17T12:27:45Z

The tension between wanting to feel as though she is living a coherent narrative versus her unwillingness to be bound by any script is not easily resolved for Selin. Elif Batuman’s Alter Ego Goes Back to College. Her Minor: Overthinking. 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z

Filled with dragons and demons, yes, but also with fully realised worlds, strong characterisation and, most importantly, witty scripts. What's the next Game of Thrones? All the contenders for fantasy TV's crown 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z

There was no real script, let alone a plot, just slightly hallucinatory scenes of the Fab Four with punters, avant-gardists and wrestling midgets. Rewind TV: Hunted; Monroe; Arena: The Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour; Best Possible Taste: the Kenny Everett Story; Exposure: the Other Side of Jimmy Savile; Welcome to India – review 2012-10-06T23:05:46Z

The waiting is over, too, for “The Cabin in the Woods,” a horror film directed by Drew Goddard, who wrote “Cloverfield,” based on a script by Mr. Goddard and Joss Whedon. The Carpetbagger: Billy Crystal Returns to Big Screen at South by Southwest 2012-01-12T20:00:33Z

I play piano and I love musicals, so this script, it was all there on the page, all the twists and turns. A Minute With: Miles Teller on 'Whiplash', being 'Awkward' and Elvis 2014-01-22T14:55:53Z

Their strong performances aren’t matched by the script, which too often sounds like a collection of aphorisms rather than the gritty language that seems more likely for such fascinating figures. Review: ‘Bessie,’ on HBO, Stars Queen Latifah as Blues Singer 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z

Noting one of the final images of the play — Elliot burying a passport that belonged to his first kill — Mr. Riesco added, “I’ll also have to bury the script, but I don’t know how yet.” Armando Riesco Reflects on His Role in the Elliot Trilogy 2014-03-11T21:42:42Z

He pulled from six different Lerner scripts in an attempt to make the show more cohesive and perhaps digestible for a modern audience. An Infamous ‘Lolita’ Musical Gets a Belated New York Debut 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z

National Geographic’s first scripted series, “Genius,” whose first season was about Albert Einstein, received 10 Emmy nominations last year. National Geographic goes Hollywood! (In its own sort of way.) 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z

Ellis’ script simply doesn’t go deep enough — and thus the actions and motivations of these folks often lack plausibility. ‘The Canyons’: Tale of Hollywood Z-listers falls short 2013-09-05T21:22:20Z

Both he and Butler, who also wrote the script, felt it was important to tackle the issue of homophobic bullying in schools. The rugby buddy movie that tackles homophobia with a laugh 2017-04-29T04:00:00Z

The script calls for two younger actors to play Li’l Bit’s classmates and also, in a sly subversion, her grandparents, but Gold and Myers make stiff impersonations of elders. ‘How I Learned to Drive’ Review: Many Miles to Go Before a Reckoning 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z

Jackson always had a good feeling about the second series; just reading the scripts had her in stitches. Derry Girl Saoirse-Monica Jackson: ‘Yes, we have a harsh sense of humour’ 2019-03-17T04:00:00Z

A: I'm developing a few things and reading a bunch of scripts, but, honestly, the next major project is about to arrive on the scene in two months. Schwimmer puts 'Trust' in family drama 2011-03-30T13:12:00Z

The tattoo artist mustered all the enthusiasm his deadpan self could in telling me that the Arabic script I had printed off the internet “looked nice.” Two Tattoos Gone Wrong 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z

It's hard to imagine the events surrounding Bin Laden's ultimate killing not being incorporated into the script in some fashion. Osama bin Laden movie project already in works 2011-05-02T16:56:01Z

“Fellini said that writing a script is detective work, and the day you shoot, you write it down for good,” he said. 'Tournee': Burlesque on Tour and Broken Dreams 2010-05-12T12:30:00Z

Nominated for three Oscars, including best director and another for Michael Tolkin's sharp screenplay based on his novel, "The Player" finds Tim Robbins' studio executive receiving death threats from a writer whose script he rejected. 5 great movies about making movies 2012-11-21T22:31:05Z

We aren’t paying you to think about it, just read the script.'” The Best (and Worst) Advice From Bosses 2014-11-29T05:00:00Z

Between odd jobs and the British dole, he also developed and wrote scripts, one of which was made into the 2003 film “Ned Kelly,” directed by Gregor Jordan and starring Heath Ledger. John Michael McDonagh Carves His Own Niche With ‘Calvary’ 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z

Series star Jim Parsons commemorated the first table read of the new season with a photo on his Instagram account showing him holding up the first script of the new season. Production to resume on 'Big Bang Theory' after contracts delay start 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z

“We are doing scripted at a price point that is better than other networks do reality,” Ms. Jones said. Television: ?Game? on: More Real Than Reality TV 2011-01-09T02:34:14Z

Did Green actually intend to make a scripted film about the JonBenét story in the first place? “Casting JonBenet”: A Documentary That Unintentionally Exploits Its Participants 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z

No matter the script, no matter the arena, he is always Donald Trump. ‘Game to do it all’: From TV to WWE, Trump the showman set the stage for Trump the candidate 2016-07-17T04:00:00Z

The script may not be sacroscanct in rehearsals, a playwright has announced. Noises off 2010-03-25T17:09:00Z

"I read the script, and I certainly liked it," Saint remembered. 'North by Northwest' star Eva Marie Saint coming to Seattle for screening 2011-02-26T00:01:04Z

His first script, for “The Hurt Locker,” was based on a two-week stint he had done several years before as a reporter embedded with an explosive ordnance disposal unit in Baghdad. With ‘Echo 3,’ Mark Boal Stays in His Comfort Zone: Danger Abroad 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z

For 30 years, unlike most comedians, he has performed in front of audiences without a script. Jeff Garlin off the cuff and sans Larry David 2012-09-19T19:23:05Z

This election, most commentators seem to agree, is the best scripted in years. Who wrote this election campaign? 2010-04-28T13:22:00Z

The script is so well written and the part is so much fun. Bernadette Peters, Learning in ?Night Music? 2010-08-15T23:15:00Z

I think this is more to do with the Coen brothers and what they will do with a script. Cowboy revival 2011-02-11T13:33:13Z

“We did get a script doctor, try and tighten the show up, for the audience to follow the story a little bit easier.” ArtsBeat: ‘King Kong’ Will Stomp Onto Broadway in December, Producer Says 2014-01-28T16:17:33Z

One is that he would like to see the script. Norwegian Wood comes to the big screen 2010-12-10T13:09:00Z

I couldn’t believe it when I started turning pages in this script. Meet the Newer, Bolder Michelle Williams 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z

The play, along with a book publication of its script, is the first significant addition to the Potter universe since the credits rolled on the second Deathly Hallows movie in 2011. The Magic Is Gone but Harry Potter Will Never Die 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z

But Duncan-Brewster — like so many of the other well-cast supporting performers — makes enough of an impression that she helps fill in the script’s ellipses. ‘Dune’ Review: A Hero in the Making, on Shifting Sands 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z

This shows up in everything from the honeyed filter on each scene to the run-down look of towns along the interstate where Charlie holes up to the yellow script used for the credits. Rian Johnson on the charisma of "Poker Face" star Natasha Lyonne in his throwback mystery series 2023-01-25T05:00:00Z

The script veers from one scene to the next, often without building tension or meaning. Review: Tom Hanks shines in messy 'Lucky Guy' 2013-04-02T02:16:03Z

McCULLAH The first song we had in the script was “I Think I Love You.” ‘10 Things I Hate About You’: When Heath Ledger Was Just Breaking Through 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z

And so a bulletin aimed at millions of viewers contains one sentence of script relevant to a handful. Why do newsreaders make such a big deal about flash photography? 2010-08-05T07:00:00Z

The channel went from showing blockbuster films such as Die Hard and Top Gun to making original content, when Wayne green-lit a script previously passed on by HBO, entitled Mad Men. TV OD: have we reached Peak Television? 2017-07-24T04:00:00Z

A: The original script started with what I felt was a cliche. 'King's Speech' director's biggest fear: Giving a speech 2011-01-20T19:15:34Z

Indeed, all the actors tear through the script with little care for what is being said or how to say it. A Cold and Hip “Glass Menagerie” 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z

While Ms. Silverman’s script percolates with interesting and often daring ideas, her two main plotlines never fully resonate with each other. | 'Crane Story' : ?Crane Story? at the Cherry Lane Theater - Review 2011-09-20T22:28:04Z

Last year, screenwriter Brian Godawa obtained a version of the Noah script and posted his summary online, deeming the film "Environmentalist Wacko". Epic row over final cut of Noah film 2013-10-16T11:06:09Z

“That scream wasn’t included in the script at all. I just dove into the moment and I made the decision to scream,” says Ridloff. Lauren Ridloff on playing the MCU’s first deaf superhero 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z

With hundreds of scripted shows this fall season, several of them with that familiar premise, why should audiences watch this one? Priyanka Chopra left Bollywood for ABC’s ‘Quantico’ — with conditions 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z

The allure of the daytime script is not just variety, but the ability to get it, all of it, until 3 p.m. on weekdays. Review | A creative chef breaks the rules at this all-day diner 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z

Written by the Spierigs and Tom Vaughan, the script is as batty and clichéd as its heroine. Review: ‘Winchester’ Has a Grim Helen Mirren. And a Silly Script. 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z

I sent the script to over 50 studios and potential funders, all of whom rejected it. How we made The Usual Suspects 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z

James Cameron, whose last work as a great liberal journalist was a weekly column in the Guardian, wrote and narrated the script. A British fleet with no aircraft carrier. Unthinkable! 2010-10-23T06:00:00Z

One Monday morning, in the cigar-shaped, 8-by-25-foot office in the Taft Building that he shared with an intern, Mr. Ackerman couldn’t concentrate on the script he was supposed to be writing. Mr. DeMille, I’m Ready for Your Booze Stash 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z

“If Shakespeare had scripted the Civil War, he couldn’t have done better than killing Lincoln in the last scene, on Good Friday, just after he had freed the slaves.” Abraham Lincoln’s assassination: Great joy, then a gunshot 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z

I knew since I read the script, and based on Alejandro's previous work, that what he was proposing to me was to jump into the abyss. A "Biutiful" chat with Javier Bardem 2010-12-30T00:01:00Z

Bruce Wagner wrote a script called Maps to the Stars; there’s a role for Rob in it, and Viggo, too. Robert Pattinson and Director David Cronenberg on Cars, Cosmopolis and Fans Who Care 2012-08-14T20:48:47Z

Its stitched vertical lettering, however, is not Tibetan script. In Dishes and Dolls, a Foundation of Feminist Art 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z

A. Just really sat down and mapped out the script. The Carpetbagger: Possible Nominees Look Toward Oscars 2011-12-14T23:41:05Z

And I never understood it, why a person would want their name on a script if they didn’t write all of it. ArtsBeat: The 'Mad Men' Season That Almost Wasn't: An Interview With Matthew Weiner, Part 1 2012-03-07T13:00:32Z

But somewhere along the line “Blood Play” suffers from a failure of nerve, padding the script with an awkward lurch into material that strains toward darkness. Theater Review: Debate Society’s ‘Blood Play’ at Bushwick Starr 2012-10-11T23:15:05Z

I sat on the script for a while. ArtsBeat: For His Latest Transformation, Shia LaBeouf Discusses His Short Film ‘Haunted Love’ 2013-05-15T13:00:07Z

Mr. Kazan would later claim that he wrote the original script. Film: Driven by Fierce Visions of Independence 2010-08-29T02:23:00Z

Her camera technique in this film, which is more scripted than it might appear, purposely does not highlight the life-changing bits or pause to reflect deeply on her characters. Movie Review: ‘La Vie au Ranch,’ From Sophie Letourneur 2012-10-18T23:36:20Z

As of Monday, Gawker's story, first published on January 23, was still live along with links to download the script on AnonFiles.com. Quentin Tarantino sues Gawker over links to leaked movie script 2014-01-28T02:34:37Z

Now that that happens on screen too – and online, and often in real time – the best part is dissecting everything, the missteps and scripted and unscripted high points, all capturable and re-viewable in GIF form. The Carpetbagger: Globes Highlights and (of Course) Lowlights 2014-01-13T21:14:04Z

Of the top three last year, two centered on death or violence, “Making a Murderer” and “13 Reasons Why,” the latter a scripted drama focusing on the suicide of a teenage girl. Does Netflix have a killer problem? 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z

“Wake” imagines — which is to say, it scripts and visualizes — the stories of the women Hall finds in archives, about whom she knows only small bits of information from incomplete records. Black Lives Drawn and Stories of Struggle Told Through Comics 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z

Her character, called simply "Witch" in the script, greets us as though we were a long ago runaway child who reacted to its host chasing a suckling pig that we thought was a human offering. Another Jenny O'Hara triumph in 'Broomstick' 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z

Besides the occasional TLC show about cake or polygamy, my DVR is otherwise packed with critically approved scripted television, like "Modern Family" and "Boardwalk Empire." The comic geniuses of "Real Housewives" 2010-10-04T11:01:00Z

They will be given rehearsed readings by actors as part of the script development process. Elliot and Monty writers team up 2013-12-11T18:55:24Z

But the finished product, with Charlton Heston as the lead and Vidal’s script still pored over today for the way he dodged Hollywood censors, is an enduring piece of movie history. Don't judge Ben-Hur by the 2016 version 2016-09-10T04:00:00Z

So he hires a young man, the Boy, skilled in script and drawing, to write it. Review: In ‘Written on Skin,’ George Benjamin Creates an Unusual Love Triangle 2015-08-12T04:00:00Z

Some of the children were wrapped in linen decorated with ancient Egyptian script. Egypt Unveils Dozens of Newly Discovered Mummies 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z

What lucky ticketholders are treated to is an appropriately irreverent handling of a legendarily irreverent script. Abbey Theatre charges through KenCen with ‘The Plough and the Stars’ 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z

Hundreds of pages of documents — contracts, film option agreements, memorandums, old scripts, yellowing correspondence with agents and producers, some dating back to the 1970s — line the closet shelves of her Manhattan apartment. Music: A Piece of Her Heart on a 40th Anniversary 2010-10-03T02:00:00Z

“Discovery wasn’t a big player in scripted,” Mr. Ross said in a telephone interview. Will Shark Lovers Love ‘Unabomber’? Asking for a Cable Network. 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z

A resounding success, it is being run again this year, with a script written by Tony-award winning playwright David Henry Hwang. Justin Lin: If we want more diversity in Hollywood, “the general public has to demand it” 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z

I was filming Rushmore, which was a very literary script, and it was easy for me to see what was great about it and to see very clearly what the film would be. Olivia Williams on Hollywood inequality: 'Nobody, until now, gave a damn' 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z

As an actor, I would love to open a script and see: “The helicopter lands, and the whole family gets in.” 'Succession made me glad I was born poor': Susan Wokoma's lockdown TV 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z

The new piece is a bit more structured as she performs the entire album in order, and the anecdotes and digressions are scripted. Review: In ‘Why’d Ya Do It,’ a Spiky Séance With Marianne Faithfull 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z

Over the fries on Monday, Mr. Edgerton and Mr. Doolan said they had been reading scripts and attending Hollywood meetings set up by their respective agents. Filmmakers With Shared Grit 2010-02-17T23:09:00Z

“But if anything was done to de-genericize the script, it hasn’t helped.” ‘Sonic the Hedgehog’ Opens Strong at the Box Office 2020-02-16T05:00:00Z

He took classical acting, modern acting, improvisation, technical theater and script analysis. The education of Dave Chappelle: How a D.C. arts school prepared him for stardom 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z

This breaking of the fourth wall is one of the easier laughs, pandering that emphasizes the reduced expectations of improvisation instead of the aspirations of scripted comedy. The Improvised Shakespeare Company’s Couplets Off the Cuff 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z

The first thing I do when I read a script is to find what hits me emotionally. Irrfan Khan: 'I object to the term Bollywood' 2013-07-25T18:00:00Z

Matt explained in the script: Bobby appears with four or five secretaries and he does this dance intermingling with them and sings to Don. Robert Morse on Bert Cooper's musical 'Mad Men' send-off 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z

But it wasn’t until he read the script for “Devotion,” the film he directed that is now in theaters, that he learned of Brown’s story, and was moved to tears by its bleak familiarity. A Cast and Crew’s Commitment to Making ‘Devotion’ 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z

What would have happened if you were given this script that you were told was written for you – or, at least, for your headshot – and you discovered you didn’t like it? Molly Ringwald Recalls John Hughes 2010-09-17T15:46:00Z

Time is also a central motif in the script and lyrics: how we try to freeze it, bend it, escape from it. Review: Lost on a Magical Mystery Tour in ‘Alice by Heart’ 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z

What surprises is how the script always stops short of melodrama. Review: ‘Skeleton Crew,’ a Tale of Autoworkers in Hard-Hit Detroit 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z

Using a set of carefully controlled scripted audio clips, Hilton surveyed 5,000 American English speakers to better understand what affects people’s perceptions of interruptions. Why do people interrupt? It depends on whom you're talking to 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z

When Miller wrote a fan letter to fellow science-fiction author and Florida resident, Lucius Shepard, he added the following post script: “This does not mean I want to meet you.” A Science-Fiction Classic Still Smolders 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z

A script has already been acquired from Billy Elliot writer Lee Hall. Elton John biopic finds director 2013-03-19T15:02:13Z

A family is never a closed story; there's always a revision waiting for the original script. "E.T." at 40: A personal reflection on the importance of a "closed story" 2022-06-11T04:00:00Z

In both script and staging, this 55-minute show feels foiled by all of that, its characters and incidents too briefly sketched to gather the necessary force and weight. ‘I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings’ Review: A Life Too Simplified 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z

It was really bad there five years ago, and that’s around the time the script was conceived. Benicio Del Toro on What ‘Sicario’ Got Right (and Wrong) 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z

Mr. Oyelowo first read the script for “Selma” in 2007 and said he “clearly felt God tell me I would play this role.” Golden Globes 2015: David Oyelowo and Ava DuVernay, Jumping for Joy 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z

You start with the script and then with the director, and you figure out who this guy is and where he comes from. Bradley Cooper seeks Silver Linings 2012-11-20T01:41:32Z

This was remarkable, in that he was flipping the script on two decades of campaign orthodoxy – followed by Democrats and Republicans alike – that hip-hop was politically radioactive. How hip-hop fell out of love with Obama 2012-08-23T19:00:01Z

When I read the script, panic set in. In ‘Blue Jasmine,’ Suzy Benzinger Turns Clothes Into Characters 2013-08-21T20:25:28Z

The jury that chose the best-narrative feature award hailed Youmans, who also wrote his film’s script, as “a voice that is searingly original.” 19-year-old director wins top award at Tribeca Film Festival 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z

Either way, it would be hard to script a more of-the-moment salve for a nation on edge. Why Is CBD Everywhere? 2018-10-27T04:00:00Z

But after completing the script, he found his writing work wasn’t over. Jon Favreau hungry to return to smaller-scale film with ‘Chef’ 2014-05-09T22:35:26Z

He was a jobbing writer, consistently on the lookout for grants, blurbs, magazine assignments, scripts, deals. Review: In ‘Yours in Haste and Adoration,’ Terry Southern’s Thoughts Spill Out 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z

But when the script came back, there was a fatal flaw: It ended with the two falling in love. What if Instead of Calling People Out, We Called Them In? 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z

Wade decision, Erica Kane became one the first characters on a scripted television show to undergo a legal abortion. Agnes Nixon, writer who created ‘One Life to Live’ and ‘All My Children,’ dies at 93 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z

There were false starts, too, before he settled on Nocturnal Animals as the script to pursue. Tom Ford: ‘I wore a suit on set. It's a uniform… I feel weak in trainers’ 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z

He has written a novel and a memoir, and scripted the film “Saving Grace.” Craig Ferguson’s “The Late Late Show” Will Be Missed 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z

Hunt does perfectly fine with a script that calls for standard issue spunkiness and weeping, though she can’t quite sell the clearly preposterous romance. Pam Grier's Jackie Brown snub proves Oscars have always been #SoWhite 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z

“I read that script, but I didn’t like it at all,” he says, calling “Heroes” more of a “traditional biopic-y, melodramatic thing.” Finding Beach Boy Brian Wilson 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z

But 10 years ago, I wrote a script about the President, and look at all the similarities! Face-Off: The Makings of the Facebook Movie 2010-09-23T08:15:00Z

We'll also ask about her experience watching the show and whether she kept up with the theories surrounding the identity of the show's killer -- and if she formed any herself while reading the script. Join a live chat with 'True Detective's' Michelle Monaghan Thursday 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z

Quentin Tarantino might be saddling up to direct his ensemble western "The Hateful Eight" — which he emphatically mothballed after a script leak and sued Gawker Media over — after all. Quentin Tarantino's 'Hateful Eight' back on, report says 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z

Still, the chief difficulty is the script, which increasingly substitutes tawdry violence for trenchant thought. Theater Review: ‘Holy Land’ Examines Dehumanizing Effects of Armed Conflict 2014-04-23T21:27:20Z

The script is slow to simmer at first. This season, Broadway flouts its grit (and some glitz) 2011-06-03T18:24:03Z

There’s a note of wistful, wishful thinking in all this retconning of reality — would that we could write a time jump into our own scripts! Wondering When the Pandemic Will End? On TV, It Already Has. 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z

Straczynski also shares his thoughts on if his TV series "Babylon 5" was copied by "Star Trek Deep Space Nine", and what really happened with his script for the "World War Z" movie. Comics and sci-fi powerhouse J. Michael Straczynski has an incredible origin story of his own 2019-07-25T04:00:00Z

There is good reason to think Chicago is strongly being considered, but the script is still being written. Chicago hopes Dark Knight returns 2011-01-10T03:14:46Z

Ms. Yu, who has directed scripted television episodes as well as documentaries, wraps a lot of bad news into a slick, informative, fast-moving package. Movie Review: ?Last Call at the Oasis,? a Documentary About Water Supplies 2012-05-03T23:00:12Z

Nguyen, 43, is delighted by the attention the script has received, even while sounding a little nonplused. Queer Kids, Nerds and Sword Fights: It’s the Hot School Play 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z

By the same token, her scripted features have the vivid immediacy and rough texture of life itself. You Know These 20 Movies. Now Meet the Women Behind Them 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z

Director Gary Shore executes the competent script by Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless with admirable dispatch and a strong visual sense. 'Dracula Untold' proves vampire allure is hard to resist 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z

“I would just read the script every day and say, this guy knows how to tell a story.” Oscar-worthy: Actor John Hawkes Searches for Love in The Sessions 2012-10-17T12:00:39Z

The scripts come in all the time and I get to choose. A powerful faith 2010-05-08T23:05:00Z

Soria said, adding that he cried out of happiness seeing Spanish slang — and thus himself — throughout the script. What Generations of Gay Men Hand Down in ‘The Inheritance’ 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z

With “Curb,” once you have the structure, you don’t spent a lot of time on the script because we just use an outline. 'The League' Creators Jeff and Jackie Schaffer on Their Show's Final Season 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z

Although the play emerges as a meditation on grief — it soon becomes clear that Donna, Geppetto’s wife and fellow puppeteer, has recently died — comic stage business and the script’s wry humor save it from lugubriousness. Spare Times for Children for June 21-27 2013-06-20T23:01:28Z

Lapid’s workmanlike direction illustrates his lockstep script efficiently, and sometimes engagingly, but unimaginatively. Movies 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z

I enjoyed the script, and I enjoyed the characters as one. Tom Hardy in Toronto: 'I’m here to promote Legend' 2015-09-13T04:00:00Z

Many things have changed since she lost the Democratic Party nomination to Barack Obama in 2008, but few more pointedly than scripted television's relationship with women. Thanks to TV's strong women, voters are ready for a female president 2015-04-18T04:00:00Z

But Celebrity Cruises is flipping the script on a series of new Caribbean sailings that will include overnight port stays. Cruise and Resort News: Bangladesh Itineraries; Wellness in Mexico 2015-09-30T04:00:00Z

The series, called “The Kennedys,” was supposed to be History’s first major foray in the genre of scripted programming, with a high-profile cast, a well-known if controversial producer and a multimillion-dollar price tag. ArtsBeat: History Channel Will Not Show 'Kennedys' Miniseries 2011-01-08T02:27:24Z

Larraín has an artful eye but a mind for melodrama, and the script by Steven Knight so relentlessly underlines its metaphors that it can sometimes flirt with parody. Venice Film Festival: How Does Kristen Stewart Play Princess Diana? 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z

"My first inclination was to send the script to somebody I'd worked with before," he said. Matt Damon tackles "fracking" issue in the "Promised Land" 2012-12-28T11:06:04Z

I thought the script was great and I trusted Julie and that was enough for me. Julie Delpy, Chris Rock talk "2 Days in New York" 2012-01-26T13:43:29Z

The murk may be an accident, but the servers’ upselling is so consistent it must be scripted. Restaurant Review: Rebelle in NoLIta 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z

In lieu of scripted press releases and social media posts, show us that Black Lives Matter. Nine black artists reflect on the question: “Is America at a point of reckoning?” 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z

An internationally acclaimed scripted drama, the show has been honored with a long list of prestigious awards. MTV stands by racy teen drama "Skins" 2011-01-27T00:42:06Z

Ms. Fey and Ms. Poehler were hands-on producers, overseeing script changes, budgets and casting, in their fashion. Amy Poehler and Tina Fey: When Leaning In, Laughing Matters 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z

"I knew I wanted to do Elizabeth before I even read the script," said Bouchard, a slender, more contained woman with short-cropped dark hair. Queens prepare to clash in ACT Theatre's 'Mary Stuart' 2011-09-08T20:37:10Z

His work included scripts for the soap operas “Another World,” “The Edge of Night” and “Guiding Light”; the book and lyrics for the Broadway musical “Sherry!” James Lipton, ‘Inside the Actors Studio’ Host, Dies at 93 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z

He was also charmed by the imagery itself — little drawings Oseman had made in the margins of the scripts that were eventually adapted into some of the graphic flourishes of the show. ‘Heartstopper’ Is a TV Love Story With the Soul of a Comic 2022-05-09T04:00:00Z

We do not live in judicious times, however, so let me try to provide a possible script: “I assume it’s obvious that I don’t agree with ‘Sean’ on some pretty basic matters. Perspective | Ask Amy: DNA discoveries bring forward tough truths 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z

“I’m not saying that I believe we’re in a bubble which is going to pop, causing us to go from these 500-plus scripted series to half that number,” Landgraf said over the summer. Peaky Blinder: We’re in the age of too much television, and FX has the numbers to prove it 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z

Mr. Wells said he was inspired to work on the contest by something that happened when he was starting out as a script writer. Advertising: Marketers, Seeking Family Shows, Hold a Script Contest 2012-01-22T22:50:49Z

The script called for Wittman to sell the works to a Colombian drug dealer on a yacht off the coast of Florida. Joining Plastic, Glass and Metal on the Recycle List: Fake Art 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z

To access her complicated character, Gotzon said she uses her imagination to “fully absorb the world of the script and the character.” Savannah back in Hollywood spotlight 2014-07-06T04:00:00Z

Schenkkan’s script can make you shift and squirm when it resorts to shorthand — the too-comic manhandling of the American Medical Association, for instance, and trotting out Richard M. Nixon to kick around at the end. Review | The agony and ecstasy of LBJ are revived in ‘The Great Society’ 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z

The script and characters were brought together with great writing and meticulous research and the abundant oversimplification was entirely forgivable for the dazzling human drama. The Newsroom: are news anchors really this important? 2012-06-23T23:04:22Z

His last film script was Solo Faces, about rock climbing, a sport he took up himself with some alacrity by way of research. James Salter: the forgotten hero of American literature 2013-05-11T13:30:01Z

It all feels like an effort, through casting, to resuscitate characters that the scripts never breathed life into, a kind of dramatic CPR. Review: In ‘Your Honor,’ a Dark Cable Premise Breaks Worse 2020-12-03T05:00:00Z

There are now so many networks creating original scripted shows that, even if they find niche audiences, they may never find enough viewers or subscribers to cover all the production costs. Too many shows? FX’s John Landgraf still thinks ‘peak TV’ is headed for a correction 2016-01-17T05:00:00Z

So he came up with a strategy: He asked for the last meeting slot with studio executives and spent about 10 days writing a script from the director’s point of view. ‘Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone’ at 20: The Film That Started It All 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z

At the time, Richardson — one of the three stars — worried that her mother might not cope well with the demands of weekly television, including the need for quick memorization of dozens of pages of scripts. Vanessa Redgrave, daughter Joely Richardson team in new film 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z

Most importantly, he found his calling, collaborating with a friend on scripts based on a mash-up of the Marx Brothers and Samuel Beckett. Tim Roth: ‘As messy as your life can be, there has to be a window you can escape through' 2019-01-06T05:00:00Z

But Leventhal’s theory was corroborated by Moses, also in 2018, when he wrote that Farrow “brainwashed” the children, adding: “I was forced to follow my mother’s script to prove my loyalty.” 'Do I really care?' Woody Allen comes out fighting 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z

Neon script on the back wall spells the restaurant’s name in swimming-pool blue. Restaurant Review: El Rey Coffee Bar & Luncheonette on the Lower East Side 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z

They persuaded James Stern to finance the development of a script by Ron Nyswaner, whose screenplay for “Philadelphia,” a gay-themed plea for social justice, was nominated for an Oscar in 1994. Lesbian Love Blossoms in New Screen Dramas 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z

Jimmy Sangster's script reused the template of his earlier Hammer film The Curse of Frankenstein. Jimmy Sangster obituary 2011-08-21T11:30:54Z

He wrote some Hollywood scripts which gave him paydays. For Crime Novelist Lou Berney, a Winding Path Led to ‘November Road’ 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z

"I auditioned for, like, the assistant to the casting director in a small room in New York with just a camera on me and them reading the script." Elizabeth Olsen recalls her “awful” "Game of Thrones" audition for Daenerys 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z

“Game of Thrones” has long treated women as objects and pawns in its scripts, but this episode written by series executive producers D.B. Taking heed of the women on “Game of Thrones” 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z

The team of stage managers were all focused on marked-up scripts and color-coded spreadsheets detailing the more than 80 entrances and exits. 3 Theaters, 3 Plays, One Cast, All at Once 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z

Clement and La Frenais were on script duties again, and Reed has to contend with Michael J Pollard as the American leading a group of anti-Nazi partisans behind enemy lines. Michael Winner in clips 2013-01-21T16:59:15Z

The director Thiagarajan Kumararaja, who also had a hand in the script, takes his time setting all these shaggy, laconic story lines in motion. ‘Super Deluxe’ Review: A Tamil Film, With a Cosmic Indie Vibe 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z

The scripts won't necessarily adhere to every one of the novel's twists, ensuring some events will remain as tough to predict as the audience's tolerance for romanticizing a taboo. To "House of the Dragon" viewers, when it comes to Targaryen incest ... it's all relative 2022-09-12T04:00:00Z

Brokaw has less success wrestling with a script that, despite a previous production at London’s Tricycle Theatre — Mosaic is presenting its U.S. premiere — still needs refinement. Review | And now for something completely different: A play about drag performers in Israel 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z

With María Telón, at the beginning, we didn’t work so much on the script or her role, but she was kind of testing me to see how I would react to things. How 'Ixcanul' director Jayro Bustamante found a feminist tale on a Guatemalan volcano 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z

We cranked out a script in two weeks, and we made it better later. The Multiplying Horror of Ti West 2022-09-20T04:00:00Z

From a director’s perspective, you get to see how much this actor has understood the psyche of the character and filled in the blanks in the script. Kodi Smit-McPhee on Quiet Confidence, Chronic Pain and ‘The Power of the Dog’ 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z

In The Company Men, Wells was the auteur; here he’s the director of the script that Letts adapted from his play. August: Osage County: Stumbling on the Road to Oscar 2014-01-08T22:42:01Z

At one point, she lifted up her long mane of hair to show a tattoo on her neck: “omertà,” in a very feminine script. With ?Mob Wives?: Silent Partners No Longer 2012-03-28T21:24:05Z

Radnor's script is competent and mildly amusing -- even if the whole subplot about the lost black kid stretches credibility to the breaking point -- and I think he's a promising director. "Happythankyoumoreplease": "How I Met Your Mother" star's likable film debut 2011-03-04T18:26:00Z

In January, Tarantino to Deadline Hollywood he had only given the script to six people - including actors Michael Madsen, Bruce Dern and Tim Roth - and was "very, very depressed" about the leak. Tarantino Gawker case dismissed 2014-04-24T09:00:14Z

The music supervision duo knew the second season would begin in Italy, and before scripts were even written, they began compiling Italian-flavored playlists. And the Emmy goes to . . . music supervisor 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z

In a scene where his son does not want him to leave for a romantic break with his new girlfriend, Hanks said the original script had his character “flummoxed by this crisis”. Tom Hanks speaks of lonely childhood in emotional Desert Island Discs 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z

And, on Ms. Simard’s second night at the theater, a stopwatch, which allowed her to notate her script with timings for costume changes and transitions. That New ‘Mean Girls’ Teacher Has Homework to Do 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z

“The Color Wheel” — directed by Mr. Perry from a script he and Ms. Altman wrote together — is a series of episodes awash in discomfort and humiliation, some quite funny. Movie Review: ?The Color Wheel,? Directed by Alex Ross Perry 2012-05-17T21:26:59Z

We had a separate meeting before our first table read, and I had already seen most of the scripts and seen that Bran had gone through quite a dramatic change this season. ‘Game of Thrones’: Isaac Hempstead Wright on Bran’s Powers and Ties to the Night King 2017-08-30T04:00:00Z

Was writing this script made easier or more difficult by the 2005 suicide of Thompson? After 17 Years Away, Director Bruce Robinson Returns With The Rum Diary 2011-10-27T17:45:54Z

The apparent darkness of the script and the degradation it seems to demand of its characters didn’t faze them. A Visit to the Strange, Secretive World of David Bowie’s ‘Lazarus’ 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z

"Until there is a script to review, and a request for equipment or other DoD support, there is no formal agreement for DoD support." Congressman wants probe of bin Laden movie project 2011-08-11T00:16:04Z

Having written and directed “Godless,” a feature script that evolved into an Emmy-winning limited series for Netflix, Frank thought that “The Queen’s Gambit” could be redeveloped in a similar fashion. ‘The Queen’s Gambit’ Tries a Risky Play: Betting Chess Can Be Good TV 2020-10-16T04:00:00Z

If "Survival" works, Romero's ready to move forward with two other zombie scripts featuring minor characters from "Diary." The undead live on through George Romero 2010-05-24T05:34:00Z

Her script was inspired by the Hogwarts textbook Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, written by her character Newt Scamander. Final trailer for ‘Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them’ 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z

Strong has an excellent cast and an impeccable script at his disposal, and the production still has its moments. The Crucible – review 2013-06-28T00:38:00Z

In her partner’s view a final script never truly existed. Tossing the Bouquet Out of the Genre 2011-05-06T23:43:20Z

The intention of the Custom Made Play Project is to devise scripts through extended collaborations between Seattle actors and dramatists. Sisters face off in play set in Ballard 2012-12-13T22:01:04Z

He bought a script sight unseen from a fledgling filmmaker in the 1990s because he had liked the young man’s first movie script and wanted to do whatever was next. It’s Delightful, It’s Delicious, It’s DeVito 2019-03-23T04:00:00Z

He actually writes the songs in the script. Gerard Way on ‘The Umbrella Academy,’ My Chemical Romance … and Liza Minnelli 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z

He stuck to his script, but his pugilistic delivery made even phrases like “Heal! Our! Divisions!” sound like fighting words. Mr. Reality TV Goes to Washington 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z

The script was immediately rewritten, and filming took place in various locations in England including Regent's Park, Ely Cathedral, Harley Street and Battersea Power Station. Tongue-tied 2011-01-06T08:18:39Z

On a Monday morning in Linden, Johannesburg, the team behind Late Nite News, a satirical TV show that attracts around 1 million viewers a week, are polishing this week's script. South Africa's new comedians find a nation eager for laughs 2013-01-04T13:02:55Z

On the set, Kubrick allowed Sellers to improvise in rehearsals, and then Kubrick would take the best of Sellers’s improvisations, write them into the script, and shoot them. The Half-Century Anniversary of 'Dr. Strangelove' 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z

They also took Jack through some of the script's arcane, profane terminology. Close up: Jodie Foster aims to help scientists make contact 2011-08-18T16:38:32Z

There was a script, and it was collaborative. The Little Lad? Berries and Cream? Call It Performance Art. 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z

Less successful was 2008's "Quantum of Solace," which was marred by script problems partly caused by the writer's strike. With 'Skyfall,' Craig puts his stamp on Bond 2012-11-07T18:25:07Z

Mr. Marcato, 41, an aspiring filmmaker, takes his audience through an original script, uniquely crafted for each show. Business Is Boo-ing! The World of Extreme Haunts 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z

“And I’ve never got the opportunity because you never see those scripts for women.” Christine: what captivated Rebecca Hall about TV broadcaster's live suicide? 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z

The greater problem is that Murphy’s production is overly literal, hewing to realism when the script seems to suggest something more abstract. Review: ‘Belfast Girls’ Set Sail, but This Isn’t a Pleasure Cruise 2022-05-22T04:00:00Z

She read the script and called Mr. Daniels, asking him to let her play the role. Critic’s Notebook: At Cannes, Some Jeers for ‘Holy Motors’ and ‘The Paperboy’ 2012-05-24T22:34:45Z

It’s taking a while because you really have to like a script before you make a movie without expecting to make money from it. The Toxic Investor: A Legendary Indie-Film Company Turns to Crowdfunding 2013-02-27T15:15:25Z

I told him that involving a studio could jeopardize the authenticity of the script because a studio would likely seek to control and fundamentally change the story. How “Purple Rain” found its anthem: “We both knew we needed to find just the right song” 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z

You also created some of the early alien logograms, which you inserted into the script and which inspired the ones used in the film. How Elvish, comics and rowdy astrophysicists helped Eric Heisserer write 'Arrival's' Oscar-nominated script 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z

Although the script dispenses with a few taboos, it fails to establish a consistent rhythm; it sprawls when it should strut. Your guide to SIFF 2011 2011-05-24T17:02:05Z

A lot of it is in the scripts as is, so you can't really take that much credit for it. From "Class of '09" to "Black Mirror" Kate Mara loves her range of roles: "The magic is still there" 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z

What's fascinating about Stephens' script is how forthrightly it faces up to the problem of being an adaptation. A Curious Incident on stage: the National does Mark Haddon's novel 2012-07-25T18:01:00Z

But his first project to make it into production was an original script, Payday, starring Rip Torn as a country singer. Cuckoo's Nest producer Zaentz dies 2014-01-06T11:34:31Z

She was such a brilliant spokesperson that we rewrote 20 pages of the script. Anjelica Huston: how we made The Addams Family 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z

I was really like, what does this script give me? Their Downtown Hits Are Now Sharing a Broadway Stage 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z

“I expect it’s going to be a good script,” said Morrison. Ari Wegner: A Cinematographer Who Knows Actors Down to the Eyelash 2022-03-14T04:00:00Z

I’m also not sure how well served the script is by the frequent emergence of place-defining scenery that keeps materializing via elevators through trap doors. Review: At Hartford Stage, Expectations of Love and the Weight of Memory in ‘An Opening in Time’ 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z

Seimetz also wrote while directing because the scripts for the final episodes were incomplete while the finale was completely unwritten. A timeline of HBO’s messy "torture porn" show, involving The Weeknd, Sam Levinson and Rolling Stone 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z

At a rehearsal two weeks before the New York premiere, the work was still in flux, with the script being tweaked, lines relearned and differences hashed out. An Artist Who Blurs Bodies and Genres in Protest 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z

Although few documentaries are huge ratings hits, they can bring prestige to a network without the steep price tag of scripted programming. 'The Jinx' proves that documentaries can draw big audiences 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z

He said the series' creator, David Milch, is currently writing the script. Equal opportunity violence on HBO dramas, its boss says 2016-07-30T04:00:00Z

The third film, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, is out this month and earlier this year Boyega admitted to losing his script, which ended up on eBay, before being reclaimed by Disney. John Boyega: I've met Americans who don't know black people live in London 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z

“The Winds of War” received some of the highest ratings in history and Wouk’s involvement covered everything from the script to commercial sponsors. Herman Wouk, a consummate writer until the end, dies at 103 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z

Lehane said that crafting a scene in Episode 5 had made him cry — the first time he had experienced that while writing a script. After ‘Rocketman’, Taron Egerton Transforms Again for ‘Black Bird’ 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z

Then she got her hands on a script for “Reign.” CW’s ‘Reign’ Raises Adelaide Kane to TV Royalty 2013-10-16T13:56:54Z

“Not often you get to say ‘yes’ without reading the script.” Marina Hyde's Lost in showbiz: high fives all round as Val Kilmer whoops about his new Top Gun mission 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z

Few violin concertos are as tightly scripted as those making up Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons.” Music Review: Europa Galante Brings Vivaldi to Zankel Hall 2014-02-12T22:55:33Z

But through protracted discussions — what Mr. Gray calls “talking rehearsals,” where he and the cast hash out the script — he came to see Bruno as more complex, someone the audience would vacillate about. James Gray and Joaquin Phoenix Reunite in ‘The Immigrant’ 2014-05-09T12:00:01Z

Kranz's script mentions issues of bullying, isolation, computer games, teenage mental health, and depression to explain the teen's actions. The heartrending "Mass" is a somber and intimate look at the survivors of a horrific crime 2021-01-31T05:00:00Z

Little wonder that Ms. Armand, who was shaky on some dialogue at the performance I saw, only occasionally finds ways to connect with the script. Review: In ‘Natural Shocks,’ a Storm Is Coming 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z

It came back to me a year later with Oliver’s script. 29 movies in, Brian De Palma still won’t play by Hollywood’s rules 2016-06-15T04:00:00Z

"There was some language in early drafts of the script that would never be allowed to be in the movie itself," says Feige. Iron Man 3 marks a Marvel-lous return for Shane Black 2013-04-19T13:00:00Z

Everybody got a chance to shine, and I learned that from “The Garry Moore Show,” because I remember sitting around the table, reading the script, and Garry had a funny line or two. Carol Burnett Taps Into Her Inner Child for Adult Advice 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z

Bilal — who was born in the United States but grew up in Nigeria and Pakistan — wrote the script 10 years ago. A Pakistani-American Tale Upends Expectations Onscreen and in Life 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z

These spheres contain a multitude of smaller circles in a spectrum of vivid colors, each representing a linguistic community and engraved with the name of that language in its own script. Ready When You Are, Terminal C Is Now an Art Destination 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z

The combined company would be the biggest provider of prime-time television shows, producing nearly 40% of the broadcast networks' scripted schedules. Time Warner looks at ways to counter 21st Century Fox's buyout bid 2014-07-19T04:00:00Z

Much of Mr. Zeitlin’s script development involved talking to people, forming friendships — he lived in Terrebonne on and off for eight months developing the script and was all but adopted by a family there. The Making of ‘Beasts of the Southern Wild’ 2012-06-08T20:45:23Z

"When I first read the script, I was like, this is genius," Hilty recalled during a day of interviews to promote "Smash." 'Smash's' Megan Hilty 'obsessed' with singing 2012-01-25T23:36:04Z

As in many horror films, mental illness becomes the easy target of a script lacking in original ideas. ‘Nocturne’ Review: On a Low Note 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z

The actor recently spoke with Entertainment Weekly and revealed to no one’s surprise that security is in overdrive to protect the script and preserve spoilers for the final entry in the new “Star Wars” trilogy. Unlike “The Last Jedi,” Mark Hamill isn’t allowed to keep “Star Wars: Episode IX” scrip... 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z

Instead, Sarkic said, he resubmitted the movie permit application to Grahovac on Wednesday, along with a full script, and expects the minister to grant a new permit. Bosnia revokes Angelina Jolie's filming permit 2010-10-15T12:25:00Z

I read the script for accuracy, and then answer any questions that come up. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Talks 12 Years a Slave and The African Americans 2013-10-22T17:35:56Z

When Mr. Evans took Paramount’s reins in 1966, Hollywood was in creative decline, relying heavily on established stars and safely sellable scripts. Robert Evans, a Maverick Producer of Hollywood Classics, Dies at 89 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z

I’m fine with doing what I’m doing, these little scripts, I’m lovin’ them. A Word With: James Gandolfini: Once Tough Guy, Now Nurturer 2010-10-26T21:33:00Z

Hall says he learnt not to worry too much about what to keep and what to add to the 1998 film script. Shakespeare in Love takes centre stage 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z

A certain light touch is needed to keep the laughs popping and the imaginative, busy script from feeling disjointed. 2 quirky comedies have Seattle premieres 2011-09-22T21:28:06Z

He jokes that he is trying to get a head start on his new responsibilities by writing scripts ahead of time. Fill-in host Oliver to keep the news fake, funny 2013-06-06T13:00:10Z

MacFarlane's script and his voice and motion-capture work had been tipped for recognition in the original screenplay and supporting actor categories. Seth MacFarlane to host Oscars 2012-10-01T17:10:42Z

For every record-breaking scripted drama or reality show, there will be another that passes the world by. ‘I don’t know if I’ll ever get over it’: how it feels to make a TV flop 2020-07-04T04:00:00Z

As a suddenly downsized advertising executive, Mr. Goldblum gives a wry, understated, self-effacing performance that doesn’t really match the character in the script. London Theater Scene Echoes Economic Woes 2010-07-20T21:34:00Z

But when she read the “Empire” script, she found Cookie irresistibly obstinate. The Cast and Director of ‘Empire’ Discuss Their New Show 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z

But she still finds it hard to turn down a horror script. Jenna Ortega Knows What Wednesday Addams Wants 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z

He pulled out this dog-eared, stapled and notated script that he had read. Tom Hanks: Clint Eastwood 'treats actors like horses' 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z

Nye's script will focus on the dilemma faced by Cooper when he fell in love with assistant Mary Kay, embarking on a relationship which lasted 17 years. Shameless star to play Tommy Cooper 2013-05-23T11:27:00Z

Chris wanted to get the ending right, so he wrote the ending of this one before he wrote the script. Commissioner Gordon: Gary Oldman on the Secrets and Surprises of Dark Knight 2012-07-20T12:00:22Z

Sooner or later the old script will need refreshment. Can 'Bonking Boris' have his cake and eat it? 2010-07-20T10:30:00Z

I think the “Mangrove” script does a great job of showing the different layers of racism at play in British society. In ‘Small Axe,’ Letitia Wright Plays a Real-Life Black Panther 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z

I wonder if she read the script through before agreeing to it? Embarrassing Bodies: Kids (Channel 4) 2010-04-30T21:35:00Z

James Miller’s three-part special about the series on his Origins podcast uncovered that one of Cattrall’s reported sticking points was that the script for the third film gave her character, Samantha, little to do. Unmade Sex and the City 3 was meditation on grief after death of Mr Big 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z

It comes with T-shirts, a soundtrack, a choice of print, an invite to a screening, a script and more, for only $50 extra on Kickstarter. Stop blaming Zach Braff for 'ruining' Kickstarter and indie art 2013-05-09T16:30:00Z

You have to submit a script and are judged on merit. Royal Court theatre prepares to bid farewell to King Dominic 2013-03-10T07:00:00Z

And so, the legend goes, nasta’liq, a calligraphic script primarily used to write Persian poetry, was born. Persian calligraphy takes flight

But the script abounds with piquant turns of phrase. Review | No shoo-in success for two new plays about female artists 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z

Vikander said she cried when she first read the script for the movie, and said filming such emotional scenes was often exhausting. Vikander, Fassbender's love story powers 'Light Between Oceans' 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z

Turner says she just got the season 7 script, but stayed mum about her character’s next move. How Sophie Turner Wants Sansa to Die on Game of Thrones 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z

I didn’t get to read a whole script — I just saw the pages pertinent to me. The Devils You Know: Three ‘Spider-Man’ Villains Return in ‘No Way Home’ 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z

“You can’t really play and find the beats you need as an actor with your script in your hand for very long.” That New ‘Mean Girls’ Teacher Has Homework to Do 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z

He says the popular perception of what a political play is, essentially means those scripts by writers such as David Hare and Caryl Churchill that explicitly engage with the "big issues". Noises off: Can theatre critics ever be truly objective? 2011-03-17T12:41:05Z

It’s a success that seemed unlikely when it began life in 2013 as History’s first scripted series, looking like a cut-rate “Game of Thrones” knockoff. ‘Vikings,’ and Its Discontent Warlord, Begins Its Third Season 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z

The original script killed off Boyd in the pilot, and when the producers decided to keep him around, Mr. Goggins helped them take the character beyond a stereotype. Television: A Son of the South With Many Accents 2011-01-30T02:30:04Z

"I actually thought, when I got the script, he was kidding. I was like: 'How did you think about me for this?' It's definitely not the typical kind of part I usually get offered." Diane Kruger plays agony of terrorism victim in German-language movie 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z

However, the story predated the financial crisis: Payne, who also directed The Descendants and Election, had had the script in his possession for nine years. Cannes comes down to earth with depression-era movie Nebraska 2013-05-23T17:48:51Z

Painted on the wall in a cheeky script is the message: “Take Care of Your Girls.” Workout Gear for When You’re Not Breaking a Sweat 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z

A team of five Navajos then spent 36 hours translating the original script, hampered by the many words in English that do not translate word for word into Navajo. Native American tribe plans to dub 'Star Wars' in Navajo 2013-05-02T01:14:08Z

Whitehead says that even the script was difficult to read; it was sent to him in Twine, software more typically used for writing games. Bandersnatch's Fionn Whitehead: prince of 'sick, sad or angry' 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z

James Ivory made the sub-genre a box-office staple, but it was Joseph Losey who got there first in this adaptation of LP Hartley’s drama of innocence lost, scripted by Harold Pinter. The 25 greatest summer films 2017-06-24T04:00:00Z

In the meantime, one of his friends was a writer on the beloved Canadian kids show “Mr. Dressup” and got him written into the script. Don’t despair: Beverly Glenn-Copeland actually has hope to offer us in 2020 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z

The script and Ms. Crovatin render her as such a mouthy, bratty little horror that the audience at a preview performance cheered and applauded, a reaction the play didn’t ask them to question or regret. Review: Three-Ring Dread in La MaMa’s One-Act Series 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z

His latest effort consists of 13 short films whose scripts are stitched together from nearly 50 manifestoes mostly by 20th-century artists, composers, architects and filmmakers. 12 Faces of Cate Blanchett: A Chameleon in the Armory 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z

For all its violence and unpleasantness, it was a resolutely humane, emotionally honest game, thanks to writer Neil Druckmann’s terrific script and to the fearless lead performances of actors Ashley Johnson and Troy Baker. ArtsBeat: Game Theory: The Best of 2013 2013-12-31T13:01:14Z

On watching Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol, the fourth movie to star Cruise as agent Ethan Hunt, McLanahan said he "immediately recognised" the script. Cruise sued for $1bn over Mission 2014-02-05T12:01:23Z

He also wrote scripts for a show called “Folk Music of the World,” but he wanted to create a different type of program that was more connected to the contemporary surge in folk music’s popularity. Robert Sherman, Veteran of the New York Airwaves, Dies at 90 2023-07-02T04:00:00Z

I'm working with Tom on the script and we are getting a director very soon, so I'm very excited. Abrams predicts sci-fi Oscar win 2010-03-05T15:17:00Z

Upon hearing that she was writing a spec script for the David E. Kelley show “The Practice,” the agent told her to choose a lane. It’s the Golden Age of TV. And Writers Are Paying the Toll. 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z

Using a complex metrics that is not entirely clear even to me, I determined the critics’ preferred scripts in each category. Film Critics Awards: Early Clues to the Oscars 2013-01-09T16:32:50Z

Logan’s script, alternately poetic and overly literal, meanders through time and space, and ends on the obvious note that neither fame nor innocence shield against war, aging and loss. London theater, 2013: Not a bargain, but the real deal 2013-05-08T21:15:06Z

Mr. Gvasalia made specific contributions to the script, Mr. Jean said. Homer Simpson Was Made for Fashion 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z

The silver screen sequel has faced delays, with Variety reporting that James is demanding control of the script. New 'Fifty Shades' Book Could Propel E.L. James To Millions More 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z

Showtime said it’s committed to three scripts for the proposed series. Viola Davis set to play Michelle Obama in proposed series 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z

Hirsch assured it would be, well, as tasteful as those things can be with her input on male co-stars and script. Will porn and PETA be octomom's latest saviors? 2010-03-25T12:46:00Z

Two years ago, when Sienna Miller received the scripts for “Anatomy of a Scandal,” a high-gloss limited series from David E. Kelley and Melissa James Gibson, she read them straight through. Sienna Miller Found Catharsis in ‘Anatomy of a Scandal’ 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z

With the production clock ticking, Mr. Chin wrote the script in 10 days. Guns. Money. Iraq. And Then a Screenplay for ‘War Dogs.’ 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z

But those days of scripted drama as the jewel in the broadcasting schedule are over, McKellen says. Sir Ian McKellen: Jade Goody was the great performer of this century 2010-03-25T09:50:00Z

For all the actors’ praise of Mr. McDonagh’s script, was anything improvised? Buddy-Cop Banter With a Brogue 2011-07-17T01:13:02Z

The headache-inducing process for Solace started back in 2002, when New Line picked up a script from the Ocean’s Eleven writer Ted Griffin about a clairvoyant helping the FBI find a serial killer. The sequel paradox: when studios rewrite movies to fit into a franchise 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z

Producers of the adaptations say they have asked their own lawyers to look over scripts, lest they find themselves accused of defamation. The Enduring Appeal of ‘Wagatha,’ Now on Stage and Screen 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z

But until that gets the green light, there's always the iconoclast Sting writing his own script. Sting ? with strings! ? at Auburn's White River Amphitheatre 2010-06-03T20:13:00Z

Fry and Jackson are also co-operating on a script for a remake of the classic British war movie, "Dam Busters", about air raids on German dams in World War II, Jackson said. Fans cheer Stephen Fry casting in "Hobbit" movie 2011-05-20T02:34:23Z

Major Harry Potter news rushed around the Internet Wednesday when Scholastic announced it would release the script to Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, the play author J.K. J.K. Rowling Clarifies Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Book Announcement 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z

Familia, which she is part of, watched each time and read early scripts. ‘Encanto’ May Be Accurate, but Can It Carry a Whole Country? 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z

When the project was revived and Hitchcock took over, the script, a great improvement on the book, was pretty well ready to shoot. My favourite Hitchcock: The Lady Vanishes 2012-07-24T09:23:46Z

The writers learned more about how to collaborate with each other in the process of drafting the script. Ilana Glazer on the Terror of the Modern Birth System and ‘False Positive’ 2021-06-25T04:00:00Z

“I read that script and said, ‘What, are you kidding me? Ray Liotta, of ‘Goodfellas’ and ‘Field of Dreams,’ Dies at 67 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z

In last year’s “Red Over Red,” 31 Down created strikingly memorable sights and sounds, complemented by a forgettable script. | 'Here at Home': Swapping War Stories Outside a Wal-Mart 2011-05-17T20:33:01Z

It’s an unfortunate failure, because the script’s time-travel premise offers some cute conundrums of parallel worlds. An Edward Snowden “Terminator” 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z

The script offers some clever variations on the coded speech by which these men were forced to communicate. Theater Review | 'The Temperamentals': The Churning Insides of a Quiet Revolution 2010-03-01T06:03:00Z

The scenes establishing this section of their roadmap are equal parts acting masterclass and scripting lesson, with the stars' performances superbly infusing tension into their storyline without sacrificing its comedic value. HBO's brutal comedy "Hacks" returns with raw, bloody candor, rising to even greater heights 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z

He slipped my name and the names of some of his old Maryland fraternity brothers into the “Seinfeld” scripts: Howard Metro, Jimmy Sherman, Bobby Pincus and so many others. What’s Larry David really like? Ask his Maryland fraternity brothers. 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z

“I was in a really dark place when I wrote that script, perhaps obviously,” she recalls. Diablo Cody: ‘Thanks to me, you get to see Meryl Streep make out with Rick Springfield!’ 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z

Do the producers tell you what’s going to happen, or did you just read it in a script one day? Peter Capaldi Prepares for His Final Season of ‘Doctor Who’ 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z

"Great writing is great writing, no matter what the genre is, and I just like working with great, challenging scripts." Peter Dinklage jumps from "Thrones" to indie film comedy 2011-11-19T00:42:40Z

Although there was a script, the service members essentially played themselves. ?Act of Valor,? Film With Active-Duty Members of Navy Seals 2012-02-18T22:55:30Z

Mills’s script offers his actors other sharp lines to deliver, and he has actors—especially Bening—who cut them like jewels. Mike Mills’s Too-Sweet “20th Century Women” 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z

This is surely delusion; The New York Times, in the late 1800s, described his script as “an unutterably dreary, romantic play,” and here it’s comically inscrutable. Review: ‘The Black Crook’ Inspires Its Own Alcohol 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z

Early in his TV career, he wrote scripts for the drama series “Playhouse 90.” Don Mankiewicz, Oscar-nominated screenwriter, dies at 93 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z

Some of this is the fault of Mr. Haddock’s script. Review: ‘Helen Lawrence’ Has Cops, Blondes, Hustlers and, of Course, a Corpse 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z

It’s unclear why the script departs so much from history here, except perhaps to accentuate the drama of the family’s downfall. Review: ‘Young Charles Dickens’ Musically Mixes Fact and Fiction 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z

It was not immediately clear whether Hasecic had seen a copy of the script herself. Bosnian minister cancels Jolie's filming permit 2010-10-13T22:00:00Z

JG: Despite working on the script, even Anita wasn’t aware that there was a whole gangster part to the film at the start until she saw it! 'Performance? I still don't fully understand it' – behind the scenes photos from the cult classic 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z

But a “Walking Dead” pilot script did not get far at NBC. Television: The Zombie Attack as Stress Test 2010-10-22T18:23:00Z

The first episode set a record as the highest-rated scripted series premiere in basic cable history. The untitled 'Walking Dead' spinoff gets two seasons on AMC 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z

On the script are several edits, in red pen, condensing and improving the script. Carrie Fisher the writer: Witty and vulnerable, she took us to the edge of our comfort zone 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z

Now she spends her time writing pilot scripts for thrillers and sci-fi shows, rather than trying to squeeze that into evenings and weekends. Ireland Asks: What if Artists Could Ditch Their Day Jobs? 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z

So what does he look for in a script? Jason Bateman: ‘My dirty secret? Playing the straight man. Because he gets to be in every scene’ 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z

Gary Levine, Showtime’s president of programming, said he and his colleagues were entranced by the pilot script. With ‘The Chi,’ Lena Waithe Heads Home in Search of the Real Chicago 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z

I’m going to get started on the script now. ArtsBeat: Once More, With Feeling: Joss Whedon Revisits 'Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog' 2011-04-18T12:30:06Z

Reached by e-mail, Mr. Babenco said he hoped that the scripts and other material associated with “Kiss of the Spider Woman” would become accessible to the public after their sale. ?Kiss of the Spider Woman? Owners Want to Sell It as Art 2010-07-09T23:07:00Z

Not reality-show reality, actual reality, the kind of reality that now sadly could only come from a scripted show. 2010-02-16T17:53:00Z

The script was written using material from Winehouse's interviews, letters and lyrics. Amy Winehouse play cancelled after opposition from her father 2012-11-27T10:40:30Z

How much of your dialogue was scripted to a plot point, given the mockumentary style, and how much was improvised in the moment? Jenny Slate on voicing the melancholy "Marcel the Shell" and creating a laugh "that's not creepy" 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z

“The script for the film was very, very different,” he said. 3 Things To Expect From The New Season Of 24 2014-01-14T18:33:17Z

But when I was revising my script, I realized this was because we live with this fear of being under surveillance. For Panah Panahi, Being the Son of an Iranian Auteur Wasn’t Entirely Helpful 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z

"Producers have taken the decision to remove references, which although scripted and filmed weeks ago, bore some similarities to the manner in which Christopher Brahney's body was found," an ITV spokeswoman said. Corrie cuts canal body scenes 2012-07-12T14:54:50Z

On a recent video call, Matlin said she gave a “quick yes” after reading the script for the episode she directed, “Ava’s Story.” Fox’s ‘Accused’ Is a Law Show, Not in the Usual Order 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z

Saw the film last night and was astonished as to how amateurish the directing, cinematography, lighting and script were. Review: In an Obama Biopic, the Audacity of Hagiography? 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z

So the logo reverted back to a classic bold script, an “olive branch to employees and customers” who felt uncertain about the acquisition, Mr. Northart said. Lord & Taylor Returns to New York — Sort of! 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z

NBC's announcement gives makers of these series some extra time to map out the stories going forward and to write scripts. NBC gives full-season renewals to 5 of its dramas 2013-04-26T19:40:12Z

In previous work, she's drawn on her legs with a knitting needle, creating raised script. Review: Artist's face is her canvas in 'Saving Face' 2010-06-03T20:14:00Z

Presumably the “Interview” script was making the rounds at Sony’s Columbia Pictures, which would greenlight the project early the following year. Sony, ‘The Interview’ and the unspoken truth that all movies are political 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z

“Every single time a character cried,” she tells TIME, “I’m like, ‘OK, cut that out of the script.’ How 'Miss You Already' Prevails Against the Harmful Mythology of the Cancer Hero 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z

Yet Shaw struggled with the script and rewrote it often, most particularly for the 1941 film version. 'Major Barbara' Is Revived at the Pearl Theater 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z

They jointly oversee the series along with Alyson Levy, Mr. Lee’s wife, write all of the scripts together and direct all of the episodes together; there is very little improvising on set. ‘The Heart, She Holler’ Is Back on Adult Swim 2013-08-30T17:10:24Z

“We wrote the script, and we didn’t really have anything in that tone, and it seemed to be such a big statement,” she says. Can Kristen Wiig Turn On the Charm? 2011-05-01T08:30:02Z

She also found herself “profoundly moved” by the script, hooked by Mr. Katims’s depiction of the everyman dad played by Steve Martin in the film. Television: Once More Around the Sandbox 2010-02-20T00:44:00Z

How many more times will we, as a society, have to cringe through these redundant, endless cycles of scripted, staged "Bachelor" witch hunts? The tired "Bachelor" franchise needs to step up or step aside for the likes of "FBoy Island" 2021-08-10T04:00:00Z

The previous study, released in 2011, was done on the brink of the reality TV boom and covered only scripted. Study: Tween TV viewers get new message about value of fame 2021-03-15T04:00:00Z

Indeed, the show is not just the best portrayal I've ever seen on scripted TV of how right-wing trolling works, it's possibly the only show I've seen that truly gets it. "Mrs. America" captures the birth of the modern day right-wing troll 2020-04-29T04:00:00Z

Characters evolve and get layered over time because television is long-form, but she was so multidimensional within that pilot script, which was very unusual. Maggie Siff on ‘Billions’: ‘I Might Leave Marks’ 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z

The script, and Turner's low-key performance, make Charlie the least interesting of the trio. Haven't we seen 'Seducing Charlie Barker' before? 2011-12-01T21:52:03Z

To write my first script, I went to an early electronics store called the Wiz that was on 14th Street. The Vin Diesel Formula: Brains, Brawn and Heart 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z

Her novel “Momzillas” last year was turned into the scripted Bravo show “Odd Mom Out,” which she starred in as well. Café Carlyle Season Includes Debuts from Isaac Mizrahi and Jill Kargman 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z

You worked at an ad agency, you helped edit scripts, you delivered pizzas — how were your tips? Sean Penn and Dylan Penn Make ‘Flag Day’ a Family Affair 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z

The marvel of both Mr. Harris’s performance and Mr. Morgan’s versatile script is how much unspoken emotion is communicated to the audience. ‘The Crown’ Episodes 1 and 2: Stiff Lips, Warm Heart 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z

I’ve just turned down a film, actually; but if I get a script I really want to do, I will. Michael Caine: ‘Boy, did we have fun…’ 2018-03-10T05:00:00Z

It was equally inspired to rejigger the original 1939 script in ways that allow Garry to seek his pleasures with men as well as women. Hot Priests and Wayward Libidos Run Wild on London’s Stages 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z

The original script was different in form, in terms of the three chapters were told simultaneously so in that way it was different. Moonlight's Tarell Alvin McCraney: 'I never had a coming out moment' 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z

Ortiz said her initial reaction to the first script was: “Maids? It’s got to be maids?” Ana Ortiz is proud of her TV show, ‘Devious Maids’ 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z

From there, it’s really anyone’s guess, but creator Lawrence Shepherd says that he’s already finished scripts for all ten episodes of the first season. This Concept For a Breaking Bad Sequel Is Spectacularly, Gloriously Insane 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z

Sometimes I wish it were scripted because it would require less work from me. Table For Three: The Mother of All ‘Housewives’ 2013-06-14T15:47:28Z

Still, Goldfinger’s script is a few dramatic beats short of being a satisfying play. Reviews: ‘Trish Tinkler Gets Saved’ and ‘The Long Way Around’ 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z

When the script for the show’s second episode seemed to start too abruptly, Hollingsworth inserted a quick joke at the top, a spin on the classic “Say when” construct. ‘BoJack Horseman’: Here Are the Best Animal Gags 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z

Pitt looks movie star handsome here, which helps, but his character's loss of passion may mirror how the star felt about the script, which saddles him with despair for at least its last hour. Why, Damien Chazelle, why?!: "Babylon" is a busy, bawdy and bad orgy of Hollywood nothingness 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z

It’s now decorated with “Beasts” posters, and scripts are occasionally sent there, but he still makes the signature buttermilk-drop doughnut by hand. The Carpetbagger: De Niro and Samuel L. Jackson Are Supporting Actor Hopefuls 2012-12-19T23:28:11Z

Not to mention unearned, as the script barely sketches its characters before expecting us to care about their fates. Review: A Long-Buried Family Secret Explodes in ‘The Daughter’ 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z

Also on display are letters, scripts and research notes that Hepburn made, and which are part of the library's collection of her stage papers. On the Runway Blog: Exhibition on Katharine Hepburn 2012-10-19T18:44:46Z

All she received for a while afterwards were horror scripts. 'I never wanted to be an actor,' says screen star Neve Campbell 2011-04-07T21:05:01Z

None of this means a wholesale retreat from the scripted series that have been the networks' bread-and-butter for 60 years. Broadcasters think sports and live specials will be must-see TV 2014-05-17T04:00:00Z

On opening night, Hinrichs, filling in for his absent star, clutched the script in his hand as he declaimed the epicurean monarch’s lofty verse. Review: Byronic Heroism Can’t Save ‘Sardanapal’ in Berlin 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z

“I have become very doubtful about historic reports. I’ve read so many books and scripts about that time and I still have a hard time coming to a real picture.” 'When I travelled, I hid my passport': Fassbinder muse Barbara Sukowa on Hitler's legacy and hidden love 2020-10-30T04:00:00Z

Establishing a solidly dysfunctional family drama before things get full-on freaky, Gavin Williams’s cautiously escalating script gives the audience an anchor and at least two reasons to care when the nastiness hits the fan. Review: In ‘Await Further Instructions,’ a Family Home Becomes a Battleground 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

For Schrader, who wrote the script for classics such as "Taxi Driver" and directed 18 feature films, including "American Gigolo", the fight for the climate might already be lost. Ethan Hawke prayed God wouldn't call him to become a priest 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z

Ahead of the release of "Promised Land," some within the oil industry are already reading the film's script online. Insight: In fracking culture war, celebs, billionaires and banjos 2012-12-24T05:03:19Z

Mr. Woodruff and Mr. Camp, who adapted Dostoyevsky’s “Notes From Underground” in an earlier Yale Rep production, closely follow Fassbinder’s script, written in response to the suicide of a lover. Theater Review: ‘In a Year With 13 Moons,’ Directed by Robert Woodruff 2013-05-09T21:08:43Z

I met Cavallo at an early screening of “Reckless,” and shortly thereafter he asked me why no one would direct his script. How “Purple Rain” found its anthem: “We both knew we needed to find just the right song” 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z

Meyers opted for physical humor, taking the script he and his writers had created for Wednesday night as Thursday’s “A Closer Look” segment and feeding it into a shredder. When laughing matters: Late-night comedy gets serious in an absurdist era of governance 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z

I don't know what the film's about, I never read a script, and I came in for less than a week! Jessica Chastain: The dazzling redhead who's suddenly everywhere 2011-09-27T21:28:00Z

“An immaculately scripted hour that entwines two decades of salient political history with a finely worked portrait of the English establishment,” Lucy Mangan wrote in The Observer. For Hugh Grant, a Smaller Screen Brings a More Complex Role 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z

The script was very creative, and I had a certain pleasure as an actress to play all the different characters. Isabelle Huppert on the Transformational Power of Shoes 2020-09-30T04:00:00Z

But the script was really good and it was kind of a nonissue early on. Five actors on faking confidence, the Batsuit and tea breaks 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z

Other instances of the script straying from the book—while remaining entirely faithful to its purpose and meaning—further illustrate Goldman’s screenwriting skill. William Goldman Turned Reporters into Heroes in “All the President’s Men” 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z

A: They'd written a script with me in a kennel licking my crotch and talking about needing to find a home. A Minute With: Kevin Nealon returning to stand-up comedy 2012-08-01T09:02:40Z

“They’re often portrayed as victims, a pity creature, somebody to help. When I read the script,” she added, “it was about just a person, not necessarily that they’re a Deaf person.” In Broadway’s ‘Grey House,’ Something Nightmarish This Way Comes 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z

Within this ecology, only a select few oegugin influencers successfully navigate away from the pop nationalist script to showcase their own interests. "Oegugin" influencers are rising to stardom in Korea. But there's a dark side to pop-nationalism 2022-11-24T05:00:00Z

Mr. Curtis spent several months working on the script before approaching the actors. How the ‘Love Actually’ Reunion Came About 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z

But when the script calls for shorter snippets and quicker alternation, too much energy is dissipated in the handoffs, sometimes involving the donning or shedding of Linda Cho’s sociologically precise costumes. Review: Embodying Justice in ‘Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992’ 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z

Unsurprisingly, the scripting process took a long time – it's a minefield of a subject. The son also rises: Jim Loach directs his first film 2011-03-31T22:00:02Z

As I'm walking around the stage with my script in my hand, because it's my old show, it's not the new show I'm going to do the next night. Maz Jobrani doesn't miss Trump jokes: He wasn't just bad for America, he was bad for comedy 2021-01-30T05:00:00Z

It’s worth more than any scheme a designer conceives because it goes to the heart of the project. It becomes the script for the production and, if followed, ensures a happy ending. 2010-02-01T05:00:00Z

That script, by Drew Larimore, locks each character into a single mood — Caroline is the agitated city woman, Hal the hokey outdoorsman — passing up any chance at complexity or inventive comedy. Theater Review: ?Out of Iceland,? by Drew Larimore, at Walkerspace 2012-04-10T22:05:06Z

“This is a script I wrote 15 years ago ... The genesis of it was ... from a while ago and it just felt like now was the time to make it.” With strong accent, Hugh Grant 'went for it' in Ritchie's 'The Gentlemen' 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z

A big budget mandated an audience-friendly script and a running time suited to theatrical schedules. Review | David Lynch writes a memoir — but reveals only more mysteries 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z

It turns out that — just like with all other movies — the script, the director and the casting matters. 8 Reasons Women Ruled the Summer Box Office 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z

“It’s got costumes, it’s got roles and it’s got a script. It’s performance art.” Perspective | It was meant to be a Tinder fling. Months later, they were shopping for engagement rings. 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z

The script was knocked out over six weekends in Paris, Mr. Muller-Scherz recalled, at a “crummy little bistro” where he and Fassbinder would take breaks from writing with rounds of pinball. Film: A Bold Vision, Still Ahead of Its Time 2010-04-04T03:02:00Z

It’s as if her script were no blueprint but an appointment book for encounters of vision—both outer and inner. Kathleen Collins’s “Notes from a Black Woman’s Diary” Contains an Extraordinary Unmade Movie 2019-02-02T05:00:00Z

Sissako initially went to Timbuktu shortly after the city was liberated to talk to as "many people as possible to make sure my script was as faithful to the truth as possible." 'Timbuktu' director Abderrahmane Sissako shines a light on extremism 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z

But Wagman found it exhausting to write scripts that tried to capitalize on what was on trend and found the rejection even more so. Diana Wagman loosely bases 'Life #6' on her own near-death encounter 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z

So when she started reading the script, her first thought was, “Whoa, this is really dark.” Tonya Pinkins: A story of gun violence and a mother's loss brings this Tony winner back to the stage 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z

“I went through the whole script,” Mr. Penn said, “and figured out every shot and lens, right off the bat.” Film: Arthur Penn, a Director Attuned to His Country 2010-10-09T08:13:00Z

Dueling impulses—wanting this to be as bad as the script, but also wanting everyone to do a good job—make for a bifurcated experience. 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show' Remake Strives for Camp But Is a Real Drag 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z

And I find a note in my mother’s perfect cursive script. Sex, facing death 2012-06-11T00:00:00Z

The 30 sections of the book are all of the same length, which suggests they correspond quite closely to the scripts. Noise by David Hendy and The Story of Music by Howard Goodall – review 2013-03-08T10:01:01Z

But then I was like, “Who said you can’t put graphics in a script?” How Elvish, comics and rowdy astrophysicists helped Eric Heisserer write 'Arrival's' Oscar-nominated script 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z