Word: cameramen
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...Oscar show was more pleasant than usual, thanks to Steve Martin, who managed to take some of the usual flash and venal smirk off the evening. Maybe everyone was worried sober by the market. The proceedings and most of the clothes were even unexpectedly dignified. The cameramen, who must have worked for Ed Sullivan in the days of Elvis, were forbidden to show Jennifer Lopez below the collarbone. Stephen Soderbergh, Best Director (for "Traffic") gave a feeling and self-effacing speech about creativity ("the world would be intolerable without art"). Bob Dylan materialized from Australia, geezer indeed, with a fascinatingly...
...creation of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, and ends with the actual footage of the annihilation of Nagasaki by a U.S. atom bomb on Aug. 9, 1945. What makes the images so immediate, however, is the harrowing commentary from some of the 23 combat cameramen interviewed for the film. "I came to view these cameramen as they view other servicemen--as heroes of the quotidian," says Schickel. "They were guys doing their jobs without thought of glory or fame. They remain unassuming, often humorous, always realistic about their accomplishments...
Four months later, on Christmas Eve, the detectives repeated their stakeout, this time hiding a bug in a fake tombstone fashioned by a movie special-effects company. But the ruse failed when reporters and cameramen overran the site, and a youngster discovered the bogus marker, rocking it back and forth and loudly announcing, "This is made of wood...
...challenges go beyond memorizing lines. To allow multiple camera angles, the production will use 16 cameras, including several onscreen, disguised as computers and operated by cameramen in soldiers' fatigues. And as part of the program's good-for-you austerity, there will be no musical score, so emotion will have to be earned without strings or drums. There are some safeguards. The war-room set features a giant electronic map, synched to the dialogue. "We have a guy with a keyboard ready, so if an actor misses a line, he can instantly update the map," Clooney says...