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...elegance. Osborne used to be fanfared with a shot of the grand (and imaginary) TCM Building, a Deco marvel. The late-night movies are heralded by glimpses of a counterman at a diner, a woman seen dressing in a high window, a fellow waiting for customers in the ticket booth of a 24-hr. theater. The most elaborate intro assembled nearly 30 musicians on pieces of a bandstand assembled by workmen and coming together to create a sumptuous aural-visual orchestration. It's as if the network wants to re-create the aura of a movie palace in the viewers...
...victim to his chosen killing zone by impersonating as a well-known Harvard alumnus from Utah. Brewer called his victim posing as the alumnus and asked her to meet him at Herrell's Ice Cream, a location this person frequents. Arriving early at Herrell's, Brewer watched from a booth as his victim walked to the back of the shop where she awkwardly introduced herself to some other students who she thought was there to meet the same man. Brewer then crept up behind her and dispatched his victim. After such a ruthless kill, Brewer apologized and asked...
...Pope Innocent X. Flickering white perimeters form a cage for the Pontiff's impotent fury. Why a Pope? With Bacon there's never one answer. His great gift was for visual and psychological conflation, for compressing multiple possibilities into a single sliding form. Trapped in a kind of isolation booth, where a thunderstorm of granular black strokes rains down on him, the screaming Pope in Head VI suggests the baying, baboon madness of authority. (One source for the image was a photo of Joseph Goebbels in full harangue.) Yet at the same time he's the face of the powerlessness...
Naturally, it was special that Harry got to call the final out of Philadelphia's World Series victory last fall. No one was more deserving of one last great moment in that booth. Harry Kalas was a man--and a voice--unto himself...
...wasn't until the 1970s that the song found its current exalted status as baseball's alternative anthem, thanks to Hall of Fame broadcaster Harry Caray, then an announcer at Comiskey Park, home of the Chicago White Sox. Sitting in his booth, Caray would often sing "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" with nearby fans. One day, then-owner Bill Veeck noticed the impromptu choir. The following game, he outfitted Caray's booth with a secret microphone, and a tradition was born. Caray eventually moved to Wrigley Field with the Chicago Cubs, bringing his seventh-inning singing with...