Motion Picture Scripts: A Union List.
He wrote many motion-picture scripts and, during the Prohibition era, what many called one of his most amusing books, The Old Time Saloon (1931).
This is no film script, however, but an ominous picture of future warfare that is moving ever closer.
Picture the script meeting: "Hey, guys, we've got to make Jeanne more sympathetic.
It has to be chasing picture, director, script (by E Max Fyre and Dan Futterman, who wrote Miller's other movie, Capote) and, most particularly, actor.
There have been rumours in the press of studio concern over aspects of the picture, and script rewrites undertaken on the insistence of co-star Gwyneth Paltrow.
In short, the age-based stratification of comedy is now complete, and you can picture the script conference, at Warner Bros., during which the rations of junior and senior jokes were meted out.
Houseman was the producer of "The Blue Dahlia," a 1946 Alan Ladd-Veronica Lake picture, with a script by Raymond Chandler.
Monuments Men will likely be most hopeful for big-canvas noms - picture, score, cinematography, script, that sort of thing.
But the picture, like the script, is diffuse, and Mr. Wilcox in his direction permits scenes to dissolve in a rambling, confusing style.
