Word: camera
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Insists Valerie Virga, a senior editor at the National Enquirer: "Celebrities have been punching out photographers ever since the camera was invented." That may be so, but it is unlikely that Mathew Brady taunted Abe Lincoln about his crazy wife. And only recently have the stars had to contend with the intrusive video camera--and the insatiable tabloid shows, always on the lookout for juicy footage of celebrities misbehaving...
...shoot me or my wife, that's one thing. I will not let you videotape my kid.'" What happened at Baldwin's home is still a matter of dispute. The actor says that after he repeatedly asked Zanger to leave, the photographer refused and again raised his video camera, and Baldwin went to knock it away. Says Zanger, "He punched me in the face, knocking off my glasses--then he kicked me in the back as I turned to pick them up." Zanger adds that his face is "every color of the rainbow...
...slugged a videorazzo--yet--he did exact unusual revenge on a cameraman who was hiding in the bushes next to his house. It seems Clooney has a Vietnamese pot-bellied pig, and it rooted out the photographer and sent him scrambling over a fence, causing him to drop his camera in flight. "He wanted to sue me," Clooney says incredulously. "But I ended up with a nice broken camera that's hanging on my mantel right...
...meeting is being held at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, near Dayton, Ohio, largely because it is a site where the men can be held in near isolation. There they will be unable to hop a taxi to a TV studio and in a few minutes be on camera denouncing one another, as they might in Washington or New York City...
...point is that, '70s or '90s, nothing changes for the black underclass. And in Michael Henry Brown's screenplay, nothing much is added to earlier work in these fields by Francis Coppola and Oliver Stone. Yet Dead Presidents is well worth watching for the Hugheses' prodigal camera finesse. In some of their elaborate tracking shots (at a prom-night party, over a series of backyard fences), you get a hint that their art could mature quickly. Cinema needs the Hugheses at their best--which is yet to come...