1.   And like Sayles, who works as a script doctor, Cassavetes partly subsidized his movies by doing mainstream work, in his case, acting.

2.   As he saw it, a little rewriting by the script doctors in Albany should have been enough to cover any inconvenient illegalities.

3.   Hollywood may never give Sayles the creative control he insists on, but it pays him well to write screenplays and be a script doctor.

4.   Norman, meanwhile, continued in his usual work as a well-paid script doctor.

5.   Other writers were later brought in as script doctors.

6.   She commutes from a small Southern town to Hollywood, where she is regularly humiliated as a script doctor.

7.   This race has no need of a script doctor.

8.   To make ends meet, between films Sayles writes the occasional novel and either pens traditional Hollywood screenplays or toils behind the scenes as a script doctor.

9.   The search is on for a script doctor unafraid to take on a Welles screenplay.