Word: camera
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...camera captures it all: strobelights cut through the darkness and the lens focuses the haze. Women drink light beers and scream in their friends' ears; men, while eyeing the women, are sometimes caught strumming imaginary guitar chords, imitating their counterparts on stage. Through it all, the performers remain oblivious, pumping out music through amplified speakers and posing in the beams of light which punctuate a sea of blackness...
...preface that he thought of the piece as "something 'more' than a screenplay," while the prospective producers regarded it as "something less." Salvaging his unproduced work, he has kept much of the shape, hard rhythm and clipped language of the film format, as well as the occasional camera direction...
...Winchell's own purblind flair for self- dramatization. As a literary form, the screenplay generally rates as much respect as restaurant menu prose, and a novel molded like this slips past any easy characterization. "Maybe it's a mongrel," Herr suggests. "Maybe it's just a novel with a camera...
...insurmountable. Not long ago, photographer Robert Nickelsberg inadvertently photographed the wife of a powerful Bombay businessman at a swimming pool while he was taking pictures for a story on the Indian middle class. Incensed that his wife had been snapped in her swimsuit, the man attacked Nickelsberg, twisting the camera straps around the photographer's neck. For 45 minutes, Nickelsberg and the assailant wrangled over the film's fate. Finally, after the man threatened to commit acts more terrible than any Nickelsberg had seen in places like the war zones of Afghanistan, our photographer agreed to give up nine rolls...
Throughout the brouhaha, Clay (who will star in the summer film The Adventures of Ford Fairlane) maintained his customary off-camera swagger. Commenting on Dunn's walkout, he told Entertainment Tonight, "I think she's just doing this because I am the hottest comic in the world today." Not true, but for one week he came awfully close. Alas...