Word: camera
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Monday night, hundreds of students will pack into a flood-lit, camera-filled Sanders Theatre to hear her reveal her foibles. Poundstone is filming an HBO comedy special, "Paula Poundstone Goes to Harvard...
...think it will be fun, but televised comedy's not really my thing. The place I feel greatest comfort is in front of a live audience. I get nervous with cameras everywhere. You've got directors telling you to look at this camera, look at this other camera... there are so many areas where you could screw up. There's so much pressure...
...this age of high-stakes televised stand-up, the moments that she craves--the uninterrupted contact between the audience and her--are few and far between. Working without the camera is no longer an option for a serious comedian. So Poundstone says she looks for ways to subvert the limitations of television...
...CAMERA. The "self-consciousness of everyone concerned" dragged out the case, in the view of Vincent Blasi, a Columbia University law professor and courtroom-cameras advocate. Uelmen agrees that the "entertainment medium" took command: "We had witnesses who treated their testimony like a gig. We had witnesses who were afraid to testify, who were afraid of what it would do to their reputations." But, adds Uelmen, "evidence was uncovered because of television coverage. All those photos of O.J. wearing gloves at football games, for example, came from volunteers.'' Of his own experience with TV trials, Midwest lawyer Stephen Jones, counsel...
...Johnnie Cochran. New York correspondent Sharon Epperson and Chicago correspondent Wendy Cole found themselves on planes packed with other journalists. Cole dubbed hers "the O.J. Express." Seated behind her were talk-show staff members who spent most of the trip on an air phone trying to book Los Angeles camera crews...