Word: camera
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...little ritual played out in dozens--perhaps even hundreds--of homes across the U.S. Rising before dawn, a lot of sleepy-eyed folks switched on their televisions to the Weather Channel, powered up their camcorders and recorded a minute of programming right off the screen. Then, with the camera still running, they went into their yards and videotaped the sky just as the star Aldebaran slipped behind the moon. Finally they came back inside, taped a bit more TV and went back...
...confident, they don't need footgear. All power; no loafers. Moguls can affect a Gandhi-like purity. Putting the best barefoot forward in this trend was TIME's 1996 cover shot of Netscape founder Marc Andreessen displaying his pedicure-needy toes. Other celebrities who have recently unshod for the camera: Harrison Ford and Donald Trump (PEOPLE), Jackie Chan and Matthew McConaughey (GQ) and Yahoo! co-founder David Filo (Newsweek...
Advertising is in fact an appropriate metaphor for the film overall: trying to package the story for general tastes, it hardly concerns itself with what's actually inside. Perhaps the most interesting element of Kate's life, as the camera captures it, is her enviably well-stocked wardrobe, which expands into a seemingly endless array of power suits and cocktail dresses. All part of the packaging--too bad there's so little underneath...
...initially in a warehouse in a deserted industrial area of Los Angeles. One of the priorities of a production assistant such as myself was to keep the set clear of interlopers and silent while filming. This included asking a variety of passers-by to reroute and walk behind the camera, admonishing the crew to stop their conversations and, in my case, making sure the air conditioner...
...wool sweaters safe in the Dunster squash courts were a distant memory as I posed in the sand, a giant purple vision, as the skateboarders shook their heads in disbelief. The waves crashed, the palm trees swayed in the background, the rollerbladers whizzed by and I vogued for the camera, home in La-La Land. Dorothy said it best in the Wizard of Oz, "There's no place like home...