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...question that for Mann, and the genre, the docudrama approach was mostly an excuse to show lowlifes in low lighting. And if Higgins supplied the craft of Mann's noir films, cinematographer John Alton surely served up the art. Before hooking up with Mann, Alton had a nomad's r?sum?: born in Hungary, an assistant in Hollywood silent films, shooting pictures in Argentina in the '30s, then B and C movies back in America. The two men clicked as collaborators, sparking with extreme visual tropes, each instantly elevating the other's work. "I found a director in Tony Mann...
...accrue the portable pension and other benefits that a writer of West Wing or any other network series gets. They must wander from series to series with very little to show for it. In that respect, they are not so different from most of the contestants whose reality they craft...
...carrying supplies and personnel to the International Space Station; at Cape Canaveral. The shuttle, the launch of which was twice delayed due to weather and safety concerns, will also test new inspection techniques to prevent a repeat of the Columbia disaster, in which seven astronauts were killed when their craft burned up on re-entry...
...Wednesday, Discovery's crew spent the day inspecting the craft for any unknown damage caused by small fragments of foam that fell from the fuel tank during launch. They found nothing troubling, which corroborates the video and still pictures of Tuesday's launch. "We do not have any concerns for the orbiter," said shuttle program manager Wayne Hale. Still, aside from delivering 5,000 pounds of supplies to the International Space Station, the entire shuttle mission will center on the safety of the craft - including experiments conducted by the astronauts on ways they could fix the craft's heat shield...
...expression is bewildering, from sculpture to ceramics, exquisitely detailed etchings to the brilliant oils of popular imagination. Anne Baldassari, director of the Mus?e Picasso in Paris, has employed her intimate knowledge of both artists?on elegant display in the catalogue?to produce a model of the curator's craft, a delicate fusion of the accessible and the scholarly...