Word: backgrounder
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...flag, she thinks, and I am holding it, holding it for everyone else to see. Even out of uniform, sitting in her pristine pink room, she feels the same way. She is at her desk working on a paper, a radio broadcast of a basketball game playing in the background. Last year, she wouldn’t have noticed if the “Star Spangled Banner” came on. Now, she stops what she is doing, sits completely still in her chair, and listens. She can’t type while her anthem is playing. It just wouldn?...
...wishes to assimilate into American culture—his ultimate dream would be to have a cliché American last name, a brunette on his arm, and a successful writing career with which he could erase his ethnic heritage. Hayek’s Camilla feels similarly toward her Mexican background. She has changed her last name from Lopez to Lombard and trades in her comfortable guaraches for elegant white heels after she meets Bandini. However, Camilla is willing to endure the societal stigma against immigrants and interracial relationships to be with Bandini. Despite a few raunchy love scenes, Towne, well...
...ipod, they are never going to see that character, and an element of the story will be lost. I would never want the audience to be able to touch a couple of buttons and move an arrow key and suddenly recut my film to be able to see the background better on a smaller screen. If it's an interactive movie that allows the audience complete control, that's not my business. But I am not in favor of movies that I make being so malleable in the hands of an audience, where they are able to kind of recut...
...Kodak Moment" [Feb. 20] described a gathering of about two dozen people that included President Bush, Raul Garza?who was a client of disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff?and Abramoff himself. The photo of the meeting that TIME published shows Bush and Garza shaking hands, with Abramoff in the background between a wall and some onlookers. You even had to draw a circle around his face to point him out. That photo goes nowhere near making the case that Bush and Abramoff were close; it makes the case that TIME was desperate for any picture that included...
...push to have a greater understanding of the ordinary people in the background of historical occurrences, or the ideas inspiring them, the more basic facts have simply been excised...