Apparently looking to calm writers anxious about a potential strike, WGA leaders sent a message to members Monday insisting they've found no evidence that producers, studios and networks are building up their stocks of scripts as contract negotiations loom.
As Los Angeles Times theater critic Charles McNulty has noted, Wilson stocks his scripts with "natural raconteurs" and lets them soar in "verbal arias" full of earthy poetry.
In keeping an "outperform" rating on Express Scripts' stock, they wrote: "Despite the size, we view the deal positively, and believe that significant synergies can be realized in terms of both costs and sales".
But that was still well below the $74.98 that the Express Scripts stock-and-cash offer is now worth.
The $29.1 billion cash and stock offer by Express Scripts for Medco Health Solutions is not just one of the largest deals of the year.
The program would consist of an A picture, with stars, conspicuous production values and a running time of 80 minutes or more, and a B picture, with minor stars or none at all, produced on standing sets and often using scripts and stock footage recycled from older films, with a length that hovered around an hour or so.
Fifteen years ago, when Mr. Augustine was living in Astoria and working as a sign painter whose stock in trade was script, a customer asked if he could paint doughnuts on a bakery window.
The term boiler room was first coined in the US to describe how political parties hired rooms at election times to speed-dial prospective voters, but later became a byword for the cheap offices where brokers would sit in close proximity, serially calling "sucker lists" of potential share buyers, selling worthless stock from a pre-prepared script.
The time-honoured tradition of each education secretary mounting the dais to recite the statutory script, "The current stock of teachers are the best trained, the most dedicated, the … (yawn, where was I)?" has, with the planned introduction of licensing teachers to practice, been exposed for the sham that it is.
Recently, she launched a week-long workshop called Laughing Stock 2011, in which eight shortlisted scripts and their authors earned close attention – "1,800 submissions were reduced to eight".
