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...suggestion: the station would announce the cancellation of all its programming that evening "in order to present a WPIX Christmas card to our viewers." (The roller derby, Thrower noted, "we can easily knock out.") That Christmas card, he proposed in a November 1966 memo, would be a closeup shot of a cheery fireplace, complete with Christmas stockings and flaming Yule logs, "which would be repeated (via a looping process) over and over continuously" accompanied by Christmas music. It would serve, he hoped, as a comforting holiday backdrop for those New York apartment-dwellers with no fireplace of their...
...finally posed for a public picture, her first in more than four decades that wasn't taken by a police photographer. Her hair was gray, but the bangs and the apple cheeks and the Edenic smile were there, undiluted. The octogenerian Bettie still took a great closeup...
...closeup conflict and emotional kick, the Frost/Nixon movie tops the play. But neither can match the tension and weird poignancy of the original interviews - reality TV of the highest, queasiest order...
...Interviews Video footnotes to a new movie? Yep. A fascinating corollary to the film with Frank Langella as Richard Nixon and Michael Sheen as David Frost, here's the 1977 show with the real stars. There's no gotcha moment, just the raw drama of a fallen monarch in closeup...
...good in Hollywood with the crackerjack Face/Off. Surly men in overcoats trudge through a nightscape with very busy meteorology: when it isn't pouring rain there are snowflakes everywhere, like the residue from an Olympian pillow fight. And down these gaudily monochromatic streets a strong, scarred man comes into closeup: Max Payne, renegade...