Friday, October 26, 1979
University Daily Kansan
TV writer shares success story
Staff Reporter
By KATE POUND
Lean scripts and good dialogue are the marks of good television writing, E. Arthur Kean, television writer and director, told 30 authors' Wednesday night in Jolliffe Hall.
Kean, in the second of a six-litre workshop on film writing and directing, told his audience to practice its craft by writing frequently.
"The best thing I can say to you is to sit down and write and have some courage. If you want to do it, stick with it." Kean said.
The workshop, part of the department of the University of Richard Keton Memorial Seminar series, was served by the University Theatre and the Museum's exhibition - session and film. Director's Guild Award recipient Kean is a member, also provided funds for the workshop. The workshop, which lasts until December 2015.
THE KELTON Series series was created this year in honor of Richard Kelton, a RU graduate. Kelton, an actor, is the subject of the series "Centennial" in Colorado.
Kean, a former KU instructor of lighting design, has been writing and directing television shows for 16 years.
"I just left KU." Kean said. "I had $2,000 in the bank and I just had to get out and try to make it."
After two "wonderful" years of starvation in California, Kean said, he wrote a script
for the television series "Dirk. Kidsr."
From there, he has gone on to write for such shows as "Police Story," "Judgie for the Defense," and "Hawaii Five-O."
REAN RECENTLY finished the scripts for two episodes of the new television series, "Kate Loves a Mystery" and is on the screenplays on the two television movies.
Kean said he began to drive a few years ago when the company producing the series "Police Story," needed him to write a script.
"I refused to write unless they would let me direct," he said. "They needed the script badly, so I got to direct. Now I rarely write a script unless I get to direct it."
During the workshop Wednesday night, he showed a tape of one of his scripts. An actress dressed as a girl in a Christmas story about an elderly man who robbed banks by buy Christmas presents for her children.
Dressed as a Santa Claus, the character led the police officers on a confusing and merry chase, while providing food and necessities for the aged.
THE SHOW was fun to write, Kean said,
because its lovable hero poked gentle fun at
police officers while doing good deeds.
"The fun of it was creating a character who was impossible to arrest. He was just too lovable," Kean said.
Television writers should create characters that react in realistic, simple ways, Kean said. The over-dramatic should
"Have fun with people and characters. Make them real and they will tell your story." Kean said.
be avoided. Writers can also use humor to carry their messages, he said.
Writers must write to attract their audiences, Kean said. Television writers must use tense, intelligible scripts that have emotion and relevance.
'REMEMBER, THE audience wants to watch that tube. It wants to drink a beer or play with toys. You have to join them from the back. You have to keep them from turning the 'Kay.' Me said.
The message of the "POLICE Woman" episode, Kean said, was a serious one the plight of elderly people living on small, fixed homes. However, instead of presenting the message in a depressing, dull manner, Kean told the Santa Claus thief to make his statement
"What the show was saying is 'Don't put old people on the shelf. They're smarter than you are.' " he said.
Writers should begin with simple ideas, such as the Santa Claus, Kean said, and let the idea grow. Using human interest and humor is a good way to start a story, he said.
humer is a good way to start a story, he says. The workshop participants, Kean said, there is no way to actually teach someone to write the ability must come from within the writer.
"You never know how you do what you are doing when you write. The wonderful thing is that you do it and do it well." Kean said.
Script scribe
E. Arthur Kean, television and motion picture writer and director, describes a television episode of "Police Man" that he
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wrote and directed, Kean, a former KU instructor of lighting design, is in Lawrence for two weeks of workshops on "The
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KU's production of "The Ink-Smeared Lady" and "Seapin," two Japanese Kogen-style comedies, are delightfully original in concept. And both could be just as delightful in performance if not for the obvious reasons, because the casts and in "Seapin's" case of the script.
Both plays are staged on an elevated platform of beautiful blonde wood, designed by Grace and throughout both, the actors keep their arms posed at their sides and their legs splayed in a relaxed manner, appropriately stylized. But that is where the similarity of the plays in Kyogen-style
"The Ink-Smeared Lady," presented in an effectively simple translation from Tasukai, is an original Japanese comedy about a man whose voice is expressively well-played by John Swain, Oneta, N.Y., graduate student, and his friend, Hassel-Frederick, with less consistency by less Helfey. Benjamin
The mistress feigns her anugour to the impending loss of the lord, dabbing first water on her cheeks to take tears and then removing them, she humors humorously played by Kevin Cloepei.
But Rich and most of the cast seem uncomfortable in the Kyogen acting style, thereby defeating Haynes' purpose and the enjoyment of the audience.
JAMIE RICH, Kansas City, M. junior, is creditably commical as Scapin, the clever servant who overcomes two miserly fathers and helps to their sons love for two young women.
In general, "Scapin's" use of the exaggerated action and enunciation of the name of the character creates the intimacy of the Ingle Theatre. Line delivery is sometimes so crisp as to spray the audience with a splash of characterization of Sylvester by Tere Woolard Lake, Oklahoma city senior, also named Woolard.
Haynes' adaptation of Moulère's "Les Fourteries de Scapin" lacks consistency in the use of the French term, but it has applied it to the most numerous lines in her drastically cut translation of the French farce. But the rest of the time we are given a same kind of delivery with the same slow Koya process.
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THE WIDE RANGE in facial expressions and vocal intonation by both Swain and Chipman, whose roles once the audience overcomes the initial confusion of whether to laugh at or with their slow, exaggerated character, has become more formalized. The fine styled crying, seems to be fighting the Eastern vocal style, taking away from the tone of a normal, otherwise excellent stance and costuming.
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The shows differ in content but are similar in concept, Thomas Southall, curator of photobrhyb, said.
Two photography exhibitions, "Second Life," a photographic surrealist. "The Photographer Museum," open tomorrow in the Kress gallery of the Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art.
By AMY HOLLOWELL
The early photographs were taken by government survey photographers Othmarus Timothy Ovian and John K. Hilliers, of the post-Civil War American War.
"These original photographs were done not only for scientific documentation, but also as publicity projects for the landscape of the old West." Southwall
"They both raise the question of what physical structures really are," he said.
The rephotographic survey matches 19th-century landscape photographs with recent photographs of the same scenes.
The task of duplicating the original images required finding the exact variation in each image taken, determining the exact light—which means identical time of day and year—and implementing the same technique that the originalographers use.
THESE WORKS interested five grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and from the Polaroid Corp., began to photograph the vintage sites.
JACKSON KEPT a diary of his travels but the contemporary artists followed, too. They were included in it. The photographers in 1977 therefore had to determine the location of their photographs.
"There is only one vantage point of a picture." Southall said. "That's what is
exciting about this show, that makes it kind of eerie to see exact duplications 100 years later."
A 1971 photograph depicts two women standing at the same scene in different positions, each at a different point. The photographer, Bark Parker, created the picture by super-imposing the photographs.
Among the artists included in the show are Jackson and O'Sullivan, Ansel Adams, Robert Cummings, Felix Bonfils and several anonymous artists.
"This is a visual explanation of what erosion and time are." Southall said.
As in the photographic show, the works in this show deal with structures and how they can be manipulated to create optical illusions.
In 1983, in the second year, identical 100 years later. Buildings, roads, trees, and erosion altered the appearance of the landscapes.
For example, the tip of a stone formation at one photograph's site had a camera mounted on it by the photographers returned to the location in 1977. A resident of the area told the photographers that he could faintly recall some people chasing it away for use as a coffee table. Some rocks in the area, where the photographer evidently because of natural causes.
A 1940 photograph first looks like three submarines at sea, but a closer look reveals that they are actually miniatures on a Hollowwood set.
SOUTHALL SAID this exhibition is the only national scheduling of the show.
"What I like about this show is that it includes the full range of photographic history," Southall said.
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