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...another verse, which she doesn't sing on camera, the lyrics continue: "You can't fix this pain with money." Don't be so sure. Alongside Three Wishes, several shows new and old are opening their wallets-and those of their corporate sponsors-to fix problems with dramatic windfalls and melodramatic tear jerking. The clear inspiration is Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, the surprise ABC hit in which carpenter Ty Pennington and a team of contractors rebuild houses for families with disabled kids, parents in Iraq or crushing debt (throwing in new cars and scholarships too) while organizing volunteer help from...
...Double Happiness follows the workings of this assembly line. In the first section the women are presented in small, uncomfortable groups, preparing themselves for the potential humiliation of the selection process. Some appear surprisingly old?more, startlingly young?and almost all avoid the camera's gaze. Once the men have made their picks, the future couples and current strangers pass through immigration and brief counseling. As they absorb lectures on culture shock and communication, no one says a word to each other?no one even looks at each other?but Chang makes their body language easy to read. He captures...
...images of the hurricane that O’Neil captured with his camera, one in particular stands out in his mind. “[The local station] WBZ T.V. tower, which was blown over and lay stretched along the banks of the Charles River, was probably the most visible casualty of Hurricane Carol,” he says...
...Robert Mitchum air, which was surely not something we would now impute to Felt. But Hal Holbrook gives a gnomic, cranky performance as Deep Throat. (Shouldn't there be an Oscar for best performance by an actor you can barely see?) And director Alan Pakula added menacing off-camera sound effects to Holbrook's scenes--a mysterious bump, the sudden squeal of tires as a car departs. Finally, chillingly, Holbrook tells the reporter that his investigative zeal is now placing his life in danger...
...were going for blur, you can, of course, save your funky work, but if it wasn't what you wanted, the S1 saves you the trouble of finding out only after it's too late to do anything about it. What can it say? It's a very thoughtful camera...