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Possible now more than ever, it seems, thanks in part to a growing backlash against caught-you-in-the-act journalism. In 1994 a California jury awarded $1 million in damages to two telephone psychics who claimed that PrimeTime hidden-camera footage, including shots of private conversations that suggested they didn't believe in what they were doing, wrongly portrayed them as scammers. (ABC has appealed.) "There is a public disenchantment to a degree with exploitative journalism," notes Andrew Heyward, president of CBS News. "And some of the backlash has spilled onto legitimate investigative reports...
...ocean liner in January 1939 with his school friend and colleague W.H. Auden, Isherwood was a 34-year-old talking point who had written three plays with Auden, journeyed to China and just completed the Goodbye to Berlin stories that would inspire the play I Am a Camera! and the musical Cabaret. He sailed to America trailing a blast of recriminations from his friends, who refused to believe he had discovered himself a pacifist just as his country was going to war. If we believe it, it's only because we're privy to his relentlessly honest self-interrogations throughout...
...somewhat melancholy reading in their second half, it's only because California, famously narcotic, began to sap his energy and sharpness. More and more of his entries dwindle into local gossip and silly worries about his boyfriends and his weight. He was always better suited to being a camera than a mirror. Yet even at his weakest, he earns our trust with his entirely human cries of "God, make me pure--but not just...
...Stay” is the imaginative, if not purely genius, camerawork. Director of Photography Roberto Schaefer, who also paired with Foster in “Neverland” and “Monster’s Ball,” outdoes himself by using creative camera angles and surprising scene transitions to keep audience members at the edge of their seats. The opening scene is an especially breathtaking, in-depth visual of a car tire exploding and the metal wheel plate skidding along the ground as sparks fly. The scene catches the audience, immediately mesmerizing them and drawing them into...
Police arrested the shop’s owner, Duncan W. Purdy, on Oct. 7, and seized $1,608, a digital camera Purdy has used to shoot nude photos, and a computer...