Word: closeups
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Ritchie had filmed his own wedding, it might have looked like this: rapid cuts of swank guests and strewn rose petals, 360[degrees] swirls as the bride descends the staircase, a low-angle shot of the groom in his kilt, a killer closeup of Sting's molars as he sings Ave Maria and--big finish--a plateful of haggis thrown at the camera. The whole film would be very loud and would last about six seconds...
...Gibson looms over himself. A gallery of movie posters hangs in his office at Icon Productions, his company with its headquarters on the Paramount lot in Hollywood. The Man Without a Face: Gibson in silhouette in the distance, the actor shadowed in his 1993 directorial debut. Ransom: closeup of Gibson, blue eyes blazing with righteous desperation. Maverick: James Garner, Jodie Foster and Gibson, all of them smiling, no doubt thinking about how much they were paid. On each poster, on each face, Gibson has added a mustache with a heavy black marker--a graphic display of his famously self-deprecating...
...Gibson looms over himself. A gallery of movie posters hangs in his office at Icon Productions, his company with its headquarters on the Paramount lot in Hollywood. "The Man Without a Face:" Gibson in silhouette in the distance, the actor shadowed in his 1993 directorial debut. "Ransom:" closeup of Gibson, blue eyes blazing with righteous desperation. "Maverick:" James Garner, Jodie Foster and Gibson, all of them smiling, no doubt thinking about how much they were paid. On each poster, on each face, Gibson has added a mustache with a heavy black marker - a graphic display of his famously self-deprecating...
...early, glowering closeup, she eyes the camera: two threats, framed in mascara. This is a face made to smolder--the young Brando womanized. She knows she can hold a movie's center just by being onscreen. And she grows with the role. A star is born? Better: an actress. Watch out, Jennifer Lopez. Rodriguez is a challenger who could be the next champ...
...front page of Thursday's New York Times. There, splashed across three prominent columns in prime acreage above the fold, the Times presented this story: "GIULIANI TO SEEK SEPARATION FROM WIFE OF 16 YEARS: Tearful Hanover Says She Tried to Keep the Couple Together." Above the story ran two closeup color pictures, big as TV screens - one of New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani (looking ashen and hyperstressed, his face cropped tight from combover to chin, with a quote for a caption: "We've grown independent, we've grown more separate over the years; who knows why those things happen...