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...Hollywood, which he anatomized in two books (Monster; The Studio) and many articles. These were inside jobs--but without the malevolence and condescension many writers bring to their true tales of movie work. Dunne generally preferred the passionate "bullies" to the "smoothies," smiling as they measure your rib cage for a shiv. He often found, of all things, civility and honor in the movie game. And his portraits of it are unsurpassed in their dry wit, understated truthfulness and lasting, corrective value...
...Monster; The Studio) and many articles. These were inside jobs-but without the malevolence and condescension many writers bring to their true tales of movie work. Dunne generally preferred (for their passion and honesty) the "bullies"-the screamers and shouters-to the "smoothies," smiling as they measure your rib cage for a shiv. He often found, of all things, civility and honor in the movie game. And his portraits of it are unsurpassed in their dry wit, understated truthfulness and lasting, corrective value. -By Richard Schickel...
...extreme circumstances: Do you shoot the 8-year-old when he picks up the grenade launcher? How do you win the hearts and minds of residents in a town you've had to wrap in barbed wire? How do you teach about freedom through the bars of a cage...
...news meant that the man George Bush vowed to hunt down was now at his mercy, and so he has choices to make. He could declare victory and go home, but nothing in his reflexes or rhetoric suggests that, having placed Saddam in a cage, he is inclined to leave his other promises unfulfilled. And so the latest in the series of tests of a President's instincts and motives comes to this: Does he trust the people he says he went to war to free to do the right thing? If a sense of justice is the necessary rock...
...puck caught the far post before ricocheting into the cage behind goaltender Eric Leroux with 6:56 to go in the second period...