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  Waldo Salt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Waldo Salt (October 18, 1914 - March 7, 1987) was an American screenwriter who was fllisted by the Hollywood movie studio bosses during the era of McCarthyism.
Born in Chicago, Illinois, Waldo Salt graduated from Stanford University at age eighteen.
Salt's career in Hollywood was interrupted when he was fllisted after refusing to testify before the House Committee on Un-American Activities in 1951.
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 American Masters . Waldo Salt | PBS
Salt, the child of a suicidal mother and right-wing extremist father, came to Hollywood after graduating from Stanford at age eighteen.
But, for Salt as for many others, the 1950s meant the stifling of their creative talents by a paranoid and restrictive government.
In April of 1951 Salt was called to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee -- Senator Joseph McCarthy's brainchild for the investigation of Communist infiltration of America.
www.pbs.org /wnet/americanmasters/database/salt_w.html   (536 words)

  
 03-4060 -- Waldo v. Salt Lake County Sheriff's Dept. -- 08/01/2003
Waldo, a former employee of the Salt Lake County Sheriff's Office, sued that office and various individuals under Title VII, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and § 1983 (alleging a violation of his First Amendment rights to free speech); he also set out a state-law based claim of constructive discharge.
The district court nevertheless concluded that although Waldo had supplemented his ADA claim by setting forth allegations relating to arm and neck injuries, the injuries alleged still did not qualify as disabilities under the ADA.
As to the remaining matters, the district court noted that Waldo had simply "restated and repackaged his previous complaint" without curing the deficiencies identified in the magistrate judge's report and recommendation.
www.kscourts.org /ca10/cases/2003/08/03-4060.htm   (730 words)

  
 Midnight Cowboy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Midnight Cowboy is a 1969 film written by Waldo Salt based on the novel by James Leo Herlihy, and directed by John Schlesinger.
An assortment of much smaller roles are filled by Sylvia Miles, John McGiver, Brenda Vaccaro, Barnard Hughes, Ruth White, Jennifer Salt (the screenwriter's daughter), and Bob Balaban.
The film is the only X-rated film to win the Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Director.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Midnight_Cowboy   (602 words)

  
 REELINSIDER.COM - SERPICO (1973)
In short, his Frank Serpico has all the necessary parts of a man with noble aspirations, common faults and a simple desire to do good works despite finding himself in a socio-cultural moment seemingly at odds with his everyman wishes.
Throughout the film's Oscar-nominated script by Waldo Salt and Norman Wexler, the action is peppered with topical references and realistic dialogue.
Though Serpico is the movie's centerpiece and purpose, all of its supporting characters are richly appointed with attitudes, costume and bias that only occasionally slip into caricatures of evil.
www.reelinsider.com /serpico.html   (1383 words)

  
 Waldo Salt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The precociously brilliant Waldo Salt entered Stanford University at 14, finishing his graduate degree at 20.
Salt remained much in demand until 1951, when his refusal to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee resulted in his being fllisted from Hollywood for 11 years.
Waldo Salt was the father of movie and TV leading lady Jennifer Salt.
www.djangomusic.com /actor_bio.asp?pid=P151668   (129 words)

  
 Waldo Salt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Entered film as a scriptwriter in the late 1930s but did not find his stride until 30 years later, following a period of inactivity caused by his 1951 fllisting.
Salt's gritty, socially informed work includes one of the emblematic dramas of the 60s, "Midnight Cowboy" (1968), and the highly acclaimed post-Vietnam drama, "Coming Home" (1978).
His daughter, actress Jennifer Salt, began appearing in films in the late 60s.
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 Serpico: DVD details by TYS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
In the segment "From Real To Reel," Lumet recalls the scripts evolution from a 240 page chaotic mess by Waldo Salt that got its structure and trimming from Norman Wexler.
But even still, it was Salt's dialogue that stuck out as best, and Pacino's improvisations in rehearsals and during filming were often sprung from that original draft.
Bregman recalls at the time that the cycle for cop films was pretty much done, as about seventeen films in two years were about policemen, but none of them were very good or realistic.
www.toldyouso.net /search/details.cfm?tblDVDReview.RMovieName=Serpico   (528 words)

  
 Waldo Salt Research Site   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Hollywood.com Waldo Salt Bio - Entered film as a scriptwriter in the late 1930s but did not find his stride until 30 years later, following a period of inactivity caused by his 1951 fllisting.
The Philadelpia Story 1940, a Waldo Salt Film (uncredited) - screenwriter (uncredited).
Waldo Salt Filmography - Writer Filmography: The Flame and the Arrow (1950) Mr.
www.kn.pacbell.com /wired/fil/pages/listwaldosamr.html   (248 words)

  
 Turner Classic Movies This Month Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Mitchum's career was not only saved, he got to show another side of himself in the movie, which included singing the Roy Webb/Waldo Salt folk song, "O-he, O-hi, O-ho." "I got a change in Rachel and the Stranger, some good grade sardonic comedy plus some 'corn,'" he said later.
According to a staffer in the office of Mitchum's agent, Young was "basically an earthy lady" beyond her "language hang-ups," and Mitchum was considered by those who knew him best to be a very intelligent and sensitive man, despite any efforts he made to present himself otherwise.
One final note of interest about Rachel and the Stranger: the screenplay and the lyrics to the five songs in the movie were written by Waldo Salt, who later won Oscars® for his scripts for Midnight Cowboy (1969) and Coming Home (1978).
www.turnerclassicmovies.com /ThisMonth/Article/0,,90500,00.html   (723 words)

  
 Movie Database - [TV Guide Online]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Peter Maas's biography of Serpico formed the basis of the script by Waldo Salt (MIDNIGHT COWBOY) and Norman Wexler (SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER), and Al Pacino is the title character, an honest cop who refuses to go on the take.
Surrounded by corruption, Frank Serpico is distrusted and harrassed by fellow officers, who suspect him both for his honesty and for his countercultural lifestyle.
But when all is said and done, Pacino is the riveting presence that makes the movie work and it is difficult to imagine any other actor in the part.
online.tvguide.com /movies/database/showmovie.asp?MI=19804   (288 words)

  
 Find in a Library: [Waldo Salt, Hollywood screenwriter (right), head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left, testifying ...
[Waldo Salt, Hollywood screenwriter (right), head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left, testifying before House Un-American Activities Committee, while attorney Ben Margolis listens
Subjects: Salt, Waldo -- Trials, litigation, etc.
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worldcatlibraries.org /wcpa/ow/b36ddb189b0ef462a19afeb4da09e526.html   (88 words)

  
 Program Note   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Written by Waldo Salt, from the novel by Nathanael West.
Its residents were the people he would be writing about in The Day of the Locust—extras and bit players, aspiring youngsters, grotesquely ambitious stage mothers, the old and exhausted, minor racketeers, madams and prostitutes.
Salt found himself drawing on his own experiences during the 1930s, when he worked for $35.00 a week as a junior writer on the MGM lot under producer Joseph L. Mankiewicz: "Success then was a balance around the 50 percent mark between what you did and what you got.
www.ammi.org /film_programs/program_notes/d/day_locust.html   (2421 words)

  
 The DVD Journal | Quick Reviews: Coming Home   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Jane Fonda stars as a VA hospital volunteer torn between her love for a troubled paraplegic in her care (Jon Voight) and her responsibility to her gung-ho heel of a husband (Bruce Dern, whose hair would never be tolerated in the military) commanding troops overseas.
Both Fonda and Voight nabbed reasonable Best Acting Oscars for their fine performances, but the combination of Waldo Salt's unambitious Oscar-winning screenplay with Hal Ashby's maudlin direction constantly threatens to drown the actors in tedium and self-righteous antiwar stupidity.
Fonda and Voight do bring an effective tenderness to their roles, but Dern's character is thrown to the wolves, with the actor customarily performing as if in the middle of a proctology exam, and offered no redeeming qualities beyond egregious pathos.
www.dvdjournal.com /quickreviews/c/cominghome.q.shtml   (302 words)

  
 "Friedmans" and "Splendor" Win Jury Prizes at Sundance; "Station Agent" and "My Flesh and Blood" Win Two Awards Each
The awards were presented on Saturday night in Park City, UT on the final weekend of the Sundance Institute's annual film festival.
The film, directed by Tom McCarthy, won the Dramatic Audience Award and the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award (Tom McCarthy).
Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: Tom McCarthy, "The Station Agent"
www.indiewire.com /onthescene/onthescene_030125awar.html   (1162 words)

  
 midnightcowboy
It came at the end of the revolutionary Swinging Sixties, at a time when the sexual mores were changing quicker than a hooker at Times Square turning tricks.
It was adapted by Waldo Salt from the blunt pulp novel by James Leo Herlihy.
In those changing times, many must have gotten confused by what they were seeing on the screen, but to look at that film now at a much later date is to see that much of its glitter has faded.
www.sover.net /~ozus/midnightcowboy.htm   (508 words)

  
 Maine DEP - Map of Uncovered Sand and Salt Piles - Waldo County
Maine DEP - Map of Uncovered Sand and Salt Piles - Waldo County
> Land and Water > Permits and Standards > Waste Discharge > Sand and Salt > Map > Waldo County
Project Priority Rankings for Uncovered Sand and Salt Piles in Maine
www.state.me.us /dep/blwq/docstand/sandsalt/waldo-map.htm   (44 words)

  
 REELINSIDER.COM - COMING HOME (1978)
It's indeed caught within the cycle of mid- to late-'70s political reactions to earlier times but its lessons, emotions and artistic integrity are timeless and impressive regardless of comparison with other films about the American War in Vietnam.
Owing to the script by Nancy Dowd, Robert C. Jones and Waldo Salt, the characters are able to voice ideological impressions of war but they're always, first and foremost, people struggling to find a way to survive the peace.
Perhaps in comparison to other Vietnam movies Coming Home shines all the more with its disruption of traditional notions about star power and war films.
www.reelinsider.com /cominghome.html   (1681 words)

  
 The Sundance Award® Winners   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: Tom DiCillo and Joseph Tropiano: Living in Oblivion (1995)
Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: Tom Noonan: What Happened Was...
Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: Tony Chan: Combination Platter (1993)
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 We Don't Live Here Anymore Listing at Box Office Prophets
Based on two stories by the late Andre Dubus (whose Killings was also adapted to film as In the Bedroom), We Don't Live Here Anymore premiered at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Waldo Salt Screenwriter Award.
During its festival run, it was picked up for distribution by Warner Independent Pictures.
Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award, 2004 Sundance Film Festival
www.boxofficeprophets.com /tickermaster/listing.cfm?TMID=1213   (374 words)

  
 VH1.com : Movies : Movie : Serpico : Main
Adapted by Waldo Salt and Norman Wexler from Peter Maas's book, Sidney Lumet's drama portr...
Adapted by Waldo Salt and Norman Wexler from Peter Maas's book, Sidney Lumet's drama portrays the real-life struggle of an honest New York City cop against a corrupt syst...
Adapted by Waldo Salt and Norman Wexler from Peter Maas's book, Sidney Lumet's drama portrays the real-life struggle of an honest New York City cop against a corrupt system.
www.vh1.com /movies/movie/31005/moviemain.jhtml   (142 words)

  
 Herb Tank: Fast's 'Rachel' Makes a Nice Film   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Even this kid, Gary Gray, comes across nicely without the too-cuteness permitted most child actors.
Although the screenplay is hopped up a bit, Waldo Salt, who adapted it from the Fast short story, has managed to retain much of the quality of the original yarn.
Norman Foster's direction is leisurely emphasizing the tender and human aspects of Rachel and The Stranger, and the lensing savors the rugged countryside that provides the film with a background of maintain country and forests.
www.trussel.com /hf/rachel.htm   (419 words)

  
 Waldo Salt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
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 Serpico DVD Review
English Captions and French Language Subtitles are also included as options for the three featurettes produced by noteworthy documentary filmmaker Laurent Bouzerau, who is also probably one of the busiest producers of extra feature materials for DVD in the home video business in general.
Serpico – Real To Reel” (9:56) features brand new interviews with Producer Martin Bregman and Director Sidney Lumet discussing the development of the project with Lumet noting how Pacino would use Waldo Salt’s dialogue in scenes that were structured by Norman Wexler.
Also of note is that the film was shot backwards in terms of the chronological order of scenes and had only a five-month window between the start of production until the theatrical premiere, which meant that footage was already edited and being prepped for sound mixing within 48 hours of shooting.
www.genreonline.net /Serpico_DVD.html   (537 words)

  
 DVDlaunch.com: Serpico review
Lumet's style is a perfect fit for the film and he makes it work for all the better.
The screenplay adaptation from Norman Wexler and Waldo Salt is equally firm, with fine dialogue and great scenes to show off the film's themes as well as making it an adept study of Serpico.
Of course, we also have Al Pacino's Academy Award®; nominated performance.
www.dvdlaunch.com /serpico.html   (1260 words)

  
 Insomniac Video: Film Festival Awards   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: Larry Gross WE DON’T LIVE HERE ANYMORE.
Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: James Lasdun and Jonathan Nossiter:
Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: Stanley Tucci and Joseph Tropiano:
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 For Your Consideration - Sony Pictures Classics
Winner BEST SCREENPLAY- Waldo Salt Award- Sundance Film Festival
His mother-in-law is there for him, but her sympathies turn quickly.
Full of wit, perceptiveness, and inspired oddness, LOVE LIZA won the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at the recent Sundance Film Festival.
www.sonyclassics.com /awards2002/love.html   (123 words)

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