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...filmmaker Ken Burns' latest opus, Thomas Jefferson, debuted on PBS last month, complete with the voice of Gwyneth Paltrow reciting the diary entries of Jefferson's granddaughter Ellen Coolidge, at least one history buff in America bailed out before the closing credits. "I couldn't bear it," says Michael Cascio, executive producer of the A&E network's hour-long documentary series Biography. Cascio is annoyed that Burns' often tiresomely long dissertations are the standard by which all TV documentaries should be measured. "We're trying to develop a style without having to linger on a meadow for 45 seconds...
...different production teams around the country churning out 130 episodes a year. Two of the units are actually contracted divisions of cbs News Productions and abc News Productions. This is a savvy, cost-effective move on A&E's part, given those organizations' vast photo and film archives. Says Cascio: "The big rule around here is, you've got to find the baby picture...
What is so troubling is that while companies do trim a bloated work force from time to time, many of the recent layoffs may not have been necessary. According to a new study by Wayne Cascio, a business professor at the University of Colorado, companies have too often assumed that if the competition was cutting costs by firing workers, then they had to follow suit. Compaq Computer, for example, announced last October that it was laying off 1,000 workers. Yet two weeks later, the company admitted that profits would double in 1992. Firms like General Electric and Campbell Soup...
Secretly watching these censorious rites, though not entirely comprehending them, is a little boy named Toto (played by a delightful discovery, Salvatore Cascio). For him, any moving image is the nearest available occasion for bliss. An indifferent altar boy to the priest, he is a passionate acolyte to the projectionist, who is quite literally the keeper of a flame (the arc lamps inside his machine), the cranky guardian of a mystery more awesome -- or at least more attractive -- to the child than anything the church has to offer...
...Cole (HARVARD) d. Tom Cascio...