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...fatuousness of what he's presenting. The biggest tip-off is the incongruously languid, heavily orchestrated, ham-strung music, which seems brought on by mistake from another movie. At the outset of the museum scene, for instance, Angie Dickenson sits alone on a bench, looking at a large billboard-flat painting by Alex Katz--a portrait of a woman, a hand raised to her eyes, staring off into the distance. Dickenson shares with the woman in the painting an air of smart, spoiled boredom, a look of vacuity. DePalma dramatically cuts between shots of the painting and low-angle close...
...break. Fila, an Italian tenniswear firm, gives him approximately $500,000 a year and the shirtts on his back. VS Strings antes up more than $25,000 a year and lots of gut to keep Borg's tension high. In his togs, Borg is virtually a walking billboard...
Skeptics wonder if Turner will be able to hold out long enough to turn the corner, and even he admits, "It's gonna lose a lot of money." But doubters should recall that Turner has prevailed over long odds before. He rebuilt his family's failing billboard business, turned money-losing WTBS into a national cable powerhouse with profits of $5 million last year and won the America's Cup against the world's finest yachtsmen. Brash, abrasive, sometimes uncouth, Ted Turner is a guy that many people would love to see fail. In his current...
...suit. "It's a company town," he says. "You blow the whistle and you don't work." Writers, some of whom complain that networks and producers constantly appropriate their ideas, applauded the outcome. Ellison already has made plans to spend part of his award on a billboard overlooking Paramount. It will read, he says, "We caught them with their hand in my pockets. Writers, take heart. Don't let them steal from...
...fragmentary, the unresolved, and the best photographs are frequently of nothing much at all. Duane Powell gets a peculiar, hovering beauty out of a telephone pole, the cresent of a car top, and a nubbly expanse of sand. Bill de Palma's black-and-white picture of a black billboard, a line of trees, two parked cars and a man in an overcoat holding a paper cup, beside a wet-haired kid wearing sunglasses, is a display of visual acuity remarkable for its simplicity, poise and verve...