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  • Carrie Fisher's Unsung Legacy as a Script Doctor Extraordinaire

    From Dr. Jai Maharaj@21:1/5 to All on Tue Dec 27 23:21:39 2016
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    Carrie Fisher's Unsung Legacy as a Script Doctor
    Extraordinaire

    By Maddy Myers
    The Mary Sue, themarysue.com
    November 9, 2015

    It's time for another TMS video history lesson, this time
    about Carrie Fisher's unsung skills as one of Hollywood's
    most notable script doctors! The video above details
    Fisher's career history working as a punch-up writer on
    some of the greatest films of the 90s -- as well as a few
    unsalvageable stinkers. Read the transcript for our video
    below.

    **

    Carrie Fisher is still best known for her role as
    Princess Leia, in spite of the fact that her legacy in
    Hollywood -- both on-screen and behind the scenes --
    stretches way beyond her Star Wars debut decades ago.
    Fisher deserves to be remembered, but not necessarily as
    the gold bikini-wearing sex symbol that will likely
    pervade her search engine results for decades to come, in
    spite of her own wish that she'd fought against that
    outfit. In that spirit, let's give Carrie Fisher a little
    more recognition for a very different and very
    significant role that she took on in the world of film,
    over and over again: script doctor.

    Script doctoring, or script consulting, is a skill that
    often goes uncredited and unacknowledged in Hollywood.
    Writers will get hired to polish up an existing
    screenplay; just like doctors, they diagnose problems and
    suggest solutions. In the case of script doctoring, that
    means anything from adding in a few new jokes, to
    implementing massive structural changes or reworking
    entire characters and scenes.

    Carrie Fisher's career as a script doctor became the
    stuff of legend in the 1990s. Fisher was responsible for
    fixing up Hook in 1991, Sister Act in 1992, Lethal Weapon
    3 in 1992 and The Wedding Singer in 1998. In 1992,
    Entertainment Weekly called Carrie Fisher "one of the
    most sought after doctors in town" -- high praise, and
    one of the only accolades that Fisher would ever receive
    in printed form, given that she was not credited by name
    as a writer for any of the films in which she had a hand.

    Continues at:

    http://www.themarysue.com/carrie-fisher-script-doctor/

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    Om Shanti

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  • From Dr. Jai Maharaj@21:1/5 to All on Tue Dec 27 23:24:07 2016
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    Dr. Jai Maharaj posted:

    Carrie Fisher's Unsung Legacy as a Script Doctor
    Extraordinaire

    By Maddy Myers
    The Mary Sue, themarysue.com
    November 9, 2015

    It's time for another TMS video history lesson, this time
    about Carrie Fisher's unsung skills as one of Hollywood's
    most notable script doctors! The video above details
    Fisher's career history working as a punch-up writer on
    some of the greatest films of the 90s -- as well as a few
    unsalvageable stinkers. Read the transcript for our video
    below.

    **

    Carrie Fisher is still best known for her role as
    Princess Leia, in spite of the fact that her legacy in
    Hollywood -- both on-screen and behind the scenes --
    stretches way beyond her Star Wars debut decades ago.
    Fisher deserves to be remembered, but not necessarily as
    the gold bikini-wearing sex symbol that will likely
    pervade her search engine results for decades to come, in
    spite of her own wish that she'd fought against that
    outfit. In that spirit, let's give Carrie Fisher a little
    more recognition for a very different and very
    significant role that she took on in the world of film,
    over and over again: script doctor.

    Script doctoring, or script consulting, is a skill that
    often goes uncredited and unacknowledged in Hollywood.
    Writers will get hired to polish up an existing
    screenplay; just like doctors, they diagnose problems and
    suggest solutions. In the case of script doctoring, that
    means anything from adding in a few new jokes, to
    implementing massive structural changes or reworking
    entire characters and scenes.

    Carrie Fisher's career as a script doctor became the
    stuff of legend in the 1990s. Fisher was responsible for
    fixing up Hook in 1991, Sister Act in 1992, Lethal Weapon
    3 in 1992 and The Wedding Singer in 1998. In 1992,
    Entertainment Weekly called Carrie Fisher "one of the
    most sought after doctors in town" -- high praise, and
    one of the only accolades that Fisher would ever receive
    in printed form, given that she was not credited by name
    as a writer for any of the films in which she had a hand.

    Continues at:

    http://www.themarysue.com/carrie-fisher-script-doctor/

    Forwarded post:

    I don't remember the death of a celebrity taking up so
    much airtime as Carrie's - may she Rest in Peace.

    I found this report on MSN listing the names of
    entertainment giants who died in 2016. I was unaware that
    Frank Sinatra Jr. had died.

    http://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/celebrity/garry-shandling-died-from-blood-clot-in-heart-coroner-says/ar-BBxCEky?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=HPCDHP#image=BBoda9o|1

    Posted by sodpoodle

    End of forwarded post.

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