Word: backdraft
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...really scared at first I kept imagining Backdraft," Harper said...
...ambulance giants fight for valuable hospital and HMO contracts, they must now fend off a backdraft of sorts from public fire departments eager to protect their jobs and budgets. In most communities, fire fighters answer 911 calls. But after treating and stabilizing victims, they often hand off the transport of the injured to a private ambulance--as in Aurora--which collects the entire bill, upwards of $1,000 for a seriously injured patient...
...Cocoon, Gung Ho, Parenthood, Backdraft and The Paper, Howard splashed his vision on a huge canvas and peopled it with a sprawling cast. His problem was that in pushing a zillion buttons on the plot console, he often pushed too hard. Perhaps fearful of losing his audience, Howard would let his films get shrill or dewy. In Apollo 13, though, he has only a few dips into bathos (a too-cute child's face here, a dotty grandma there). Mostly, he makes viewers partners, trusting them to keep track of all the techno-talk, to take on faith what they...
There wasn't much suspense in the Visual Effects category at last week's ^ Oscars. The nominees were Hook, for its twinkly, shrinkly Tinkerbell (created by a team at producer George Lucas' Industrial Light & Magic shop), Backdraft, for its nifty fire rampage (Industrial Light & Magic) and Terminator 2: Judgment Day, in part for its liquid-metal cyborg that can "morph" -- change seamlessly, seductively -- into any shape (Industrial Light & Magic). And the Oscar went to . . . Industrial Light & Magic...
...makers brought to life some of the most famous icons in movie history, from Darth Vader to E.T. Now he is leading a revolution in moviemaking. ILM has tamed the elements: fire and water are notoriously tough to animate, but the company managed the first convincingly in Backdraft and the second with the slinky pseudopod in The Abyss. An ILM team led by Steve Williams animated -- brought to life, if you will -- the T-1000 creature in T2, which could transform itself from, say, linoleum into a lethal humanoid weapon. "Movie effects have been the same for a hundred years...