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...there was Suddenly, The Man with the Golden Arm, Some Came Running, Pal Joey, A Hole in the Head, The Joker Is Wild, The Manchurian Candidate. These are not the credits of a dabbler. Despite his professed approach to the craft, which was breezy to the point of gale force, he kept company with junkies for Golden Arm and hung around with cops whenever he had to play on the cool side of the law. He did his homework. He just didn't want anyone to see his notes...
...however, do Kopple or cinematographer Tom Hurwitz use their camera merely to point and shoot. A staggering, insidious myth of documentary filmmaking is that craft is somehow absent, that the lack of actors and scripts translates to films that make themselves. Moreover, because of the twice-Oscared Kopple's towering reputation, Wild Man Blues bears the brand of a "vacation film"; as with Scorsese's Cape Fear or Coppola and Altman's recent Grisham adaptations, the idea of Kopple filming a celebrity bio sounds on paper like a hard-working master taking a crowd-pleasing breather...
...Boeing 747-100 like Flight 800 has over 150miles of electrical wiring, Scarry says, and manysystems can be disabled or act erratically in thepresence of EMI. According to Scarry, EMI cancause a pilot flying such a craft to lose controlof steering mechanisms as the aircraft controlsurfaces (rudders, ailerons and flaps) becomeunresponsive to cockpit "fly by wire" controls...
...taking away from the communities' various achievements. A number of productions have boycotted the voting and say they will boycott the awards. Indeed, if the intent was to have a celebration for all of the various student groups on this campus--their participants driven by the love of their craft, sport or program--the Parade of Stars committee should have held a party, not an awards ceremony. In attempting to recognize student groups, a noble effort on a campus that passes by too many of its great opportunities, it has succeeded only in creating conflict...
Mendes, a compact, tousle-haired man with a boyish lack of pretension, graduated from Cambridge and had a pair of shows on the West End (London Assurance and The Cherry Orchard) by the time he was 23. He later spent five years with the Royal Shakespeare Company, developing a craft free of theatrical folderol. "You learned how to do Shakespeare with two tables and four chairs," he says. "Theater is not about illustrating, not about decorating. It's about building images from the inside out. That's frightening for actors. They can't blend into the scenery...