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...DIED. CARLO DI PALMA, 79, Italian cinematographer; in his native Rome. Known for his innovative use of color and light, Di Palma made his reputation with Michelangelo Antonioni's The Red Desert and Blow Up, and later collaborated with Woody Allen on 11 movies, including Hannah and her Sisters...
They'll get better. Although Cassini will never again be as close to the rings as it was last week, it took only black-and-white pictures on the way into orbit. From now on, it will shoot between 100 and 200 images a day, most of them in color. The spacecraft will assemble mosaics of the rings, photographing them section by section and arranging the pictures in sequence from the center of the bands...
...other black performers as well. Presley admitted his music had roots in the black community - so why isn't an artist from the black community being celebrated on rock's birthday? Why is Presley's name the only one on the cake? Presley had the courage to cross the color line to create his music - it's a tragedy that the folks pushing this year's so-called 50th anniversary of Rock lack the fortitude to cross the line again and acknowledge the music's original originators. Presley deserves a place in rock history. Just not at the very beginning...
Haiti's very existence highlighted the deepest contradictions of the American revolutionary experiment. Though the U.S. Declaration of Independence stated that all men were created equal, Haitian slaves and free men and women of color battled what was then one of the world's most powerful armies to prove it. Yet how could the man who wrote about freedom in such transcendent terms have not seen echoes of his struggle in the Haitians' urgent desire for self-rule? Possibly because as a slave owner and the leader of slaveholders, he could never reconcile dealing with one group of Africans...
...result is that Knightley has the ethic of an artist and the unaffected energy of an autodidact. "Sometimes I put my head into a character's head and go really simplistically and think, like, What's the character's favorite color?" she says of her attempts at technique. "But I don't see how that helps so much." She has also tried listening to loops of Jeff Buckley and Nirvana to get into the right frame of mind to play an alcoholic Vermont waitress, opposite Adrien Brody, in the recently completed independent film The Jacket. "Oooh! I tried...