scenarist

Early on, Mr. Sartori pivoted to shows shot as films, discovering along the way hidden talents as a filmmaker and scenarist.

And a caution to Trump nightmare scenarists on the left: Conspiracy theorizing by one side seems to encourage similar feverish thinking and mobilization by the other.

For all of Sorrentino’s prodigious gifts as a scenarist, “Loro” is a disturbing movie, for all the wrong reasons and, despite its self-consciously arty pretensions, a breathtakingly callow one.

The sum effect suggests Rod Serling, the creator of the “Twilight Zone” series, unhappily moonlighting as a soap opera scenarist.

“The predilection of the director, producer and scenarist for the unusual in mood, background music and characterization makes this chase more confusing than suspenseful,” a film critic for The New York Times wrote in 1946.