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Whether they found it on the tribal battlefields of Papua New Guinea or among satraps in Sydney council politics, Robin Anderson and Bob Connolly made films that brimmed with life. Australia's most acclaimed documentary makers for two decades, they shared a prodigious partnership at work - Anderson once said they worked so well together because "he thinks I'm better than him at what we do, and I think he's better than me" - and two daughters at home. There seemed much more to come, until Anderson died of cancer in 2002, at just 51. After that, "I didn...
...films busy scenes in unusually long, fluid takes of five or six minutes with three, sometimes four, cameras running simultaneously. His cinematographer, Ed Lachman, says it's "like performing free-form jazz." At Altman's elbow during last month's shooting was his friend and fellow director Paul Thomas Anderson (Magnolia), standing by at the insurance company's behest in case anything happened to Altman...
...There were to be no exceptions to the new rule, according to a Jan. 17, 1950, minute from the Adjutant General, Major General Warren Anderson, to Army Secretary Frank Sinclair. Even the cold-blooded bayoneting of Chinese men, women and children at Linden, in New Guinea, went unpunished...
...Anderson writes: "Conviction of the accused appears probable and a court might possibly award the death penalty." But, he adds, "it is doubtful whether the Australian Military court should concern itself at the present juncture with cases involving Allied nationals...
Women whose breast cancer is found by mammogram may have a 53% better survival rate than those whose cancer is discovered another way, says a study at Houston's M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. Reason: mammograms can better detect slower-growing tumors...