Mr. Arcieri has tried before to get Mr. DeFeis to present his work, hand-delivering the scripts to him.
Each launch required a small army of technologists to be on-hand: to run the various scripts, check the results, and deal with any problems that might arise.
I went back and changed the references to the new number, relieved that I'd caught this mistake before handing over my script to the host.
In April of 2011 Quentin handed the Django script to the Weinsteins, saying that it was inspired by Sergio Corbucci's 1966 western, Django, which starred Franco Nero (who plays a cameo in the new picture).
By the 1970s, as comics readers grew older and more sophisticated, Lee handed over the scripting duties to a new generation, who brought increasing maturity, pretension, cynicism and ultraviolence to the storylines.
Though there is some good material here, it is surrounded by so much ponderousness that you wish the producers had taken a strong hand to the Powerses' script, but — oh, no — the Powerses themselves were the executive producers.
"Pulp Fiction is about 50 pages," says Mukunda, pointing to the handwritten script in my hands.
Perkins won't play the political game, departing from the scripts handed to him by civil servants.
And it does appear that the actors have learned several plays' worth of material to perform the 90-minute tale: the old playwright's rule is "one typed page equals one minute," yet the "Bite" script handed to reviewers at the door is 223 pages long.
She was supposed to be the reporter on a recent story about a school pretzel sale, but she was dismayed when she found that she didn't have enough hands to simultaneously hold the tube, her script and the microphone.
