Word: burnette
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DIED. DON TENNANT, 79, advertising jack-of-all-trades who helped create Tony the Tiger, Kellogg's venerable Frosted Flakes pitchman; of heart failure; in Los Angeles. Tennant worked for 20 years at Chicago's Leo Burnett agency, serving as copywriter, artist, TV-commercial director, jingle writer and creative director. Among his creations: the catchy Pillsbury slogan "Nothin' says lovin' like somethin' from the oven...
Meantime, back on the carrier, Reigart is forced by NATO authorities to abort his rescue mission because it might upset a delicate cease-fire. The admiral hesitates; Burnett keeps running for his life. He's no longer the wisecracking rebel we first met, but despair is not part of his lexicon either. For Wilson stands on the verge of becoming a heroic American archetype, and this should be the part that makes him an authentic star. He's a little bit handsome, a little bit funny, a little bit smart, a little bit cool--but not too much...
...takes Hackman's Reigart a while to recognize Burnett's good qualities; early in the film he's pegged the kid as a hot dog. Of course, we know that Reigart will come around sooner or later and risk his career to launch (and personally lead) a rescue mission. We'll let you guess--don't work too hard at it--how that comes...
...Land, Black Hawk Down) that tell more original and riveting stories. This one is no more than good, solid commercial picturemaking (although, come to think of it, that's getting to be something of a rarity lately). But it is well played (special mention to Vladimir Mashkov, who portrays Burnett's implacable tracker with chilling, silent menace) and, better than that, it is well directed by John Moore, whose previous work was in commercials...
...have to hold that against a director. Moore can quick-cut with anyone, and he uses that skill intelligently (as in the scene where the F/A-18 pilots eject). But his most memorable work is of a more sweeping sort. He uses a high camera gracefully, swirlingly, to isolate Burnett in the stark and unforgiving mountains. He can also get down on the ground, in low angles, to track Burnett's flight across flatter terrain while still stressing the man's lonely desperation. It's too much to say that Moore's work constitutes a reinvention of the action movie...