Never download or use a script that is suspicious.
Midler played over-the-top outrageous and filthy mouthed agent Sue Mengers in a script that was as much about the late Hollywood agent as it was about Midler.
The Illustrated London News's critic praised the meeting of actress and script: "This is a part for an ingenue that is much ado about something; Miss Tutin sustains it with a beautiful certainty".
But what "My Best Friend's Wedding" did was flip the script, something that's much more common now than it was when the movie first debuted.
Disney commissioned a Lost script that was too serious.
If a script says: "She starts crying", that's much harder than kissing a man.
Well, then, as Norma Desmond might say, perhaps it's the scripts that aren't much good any more.
Unlike Loach and Leigh, he doesn't work with unknown or amateur actors and he relies very much on the scripts that are sent to him for inspiration.
What a script that would be!!
Theatre — the best of it — is primarily a literary art; even a script that doesn't have much dialogue is still bound by some kind of narrative.
So that was a script that came to me.
