Word: anchors
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After 21 years as anchor of NBC Nightly News, Tom Brokaw, 64, steps down this week. He may have started a trend: his CBS rival Dan Rather announced last week that he will give up the anchor chair in March, leaving ABC's Peter Jennings as the last of the three old lions who have personified network news for two decades. TIME's Richard Zoglin got in some last questions...
...ELECTION NIGHT FOUR YEARS AGO, WHEN YOU MISTAKENLY CALLED THE RACE FOR AL GORE, YOUR WORST MOMENT AS AN ANCHOR...
There are black actors on the A-list of box-office draws (well, two: Denzel Washington and Will Smith). There are dozens more laboring in trendy CGI thrillers, doomed to bolster the old joke that "the black guy always dies first." And there are comedians, who anchor movies destined mostly for black audiences. Then there's Don Cheadle. He plays the guy, the seemingly ordinary guy, who turns out to be the most colorful bloke in the bunch. "For the most part, character roles are more interesting," Cheadle says. "And more mine." Cheadle, 40, doesn't have Washington's looks...
...their brazen gaudiness. But, as The Life Aquatic ends with Anderson’s trademark last-call denouement, where each character closes shop with a sharp one-liner, the viewer is reminded that Anderson has sailed this course before, but never without his characters’ humanity as an anchor...
...they could put on a very intriguing show were they to appeal more to the standard human musical sensibility. Those alternative music acts that succeed are always those that manage to incorporate some element of conventional music into their compositions in a seamless yet evident manner: without an anchor, those of us not used to electronica can quickly become lost...