In recent years, the women have done a better job keeping to the traditional French script.

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Both Brian and Roger are perfectionists and I am sure that if they thought for one second that Ben Elton's script was not up to the job or not suitable they would have said so from the outset and certainly would not have spent so much of their time helping and supervising the show.

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My job was to sit with Ron and capture his unique style in a script, so that it could be passed along to the next generation of salespeople.

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Till then, the 74-year-old movie-maker had reportedly turned down other script ideas for the Prometheus story, but this time he ended up giving Spaihts the job.

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