Word: errol
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...There was the inspired idea of having Errol Morris, probably America's best documentarian, shoot the "what do the movies mean to you?" clips that opened the ceremony; if it was yet another example of the ritual tongue-bathing Hollywood administers itself every year, it was at least dry-witted and unsentimental in Morris' typical style. There was the multi-screen device the producers used before the Film Editing Oscar, which actually gave us an idea what film editors do. And there was the inspired idea of having people like David Mamet and Buck Henry write introductions to some...
...could be fresh for an evening's prowl of the city's top night spots; his son still has a 1937 album of photos from El Morocco. Phyllis Adams, a pert swank Manhattan deb, has her own memory book of nightclub propositions from elegant gents, including Errol Flynn. Brooklyn's Davie Lerner had never been inside any of these tony boites, but when stationed on Okinawa during the War he designed an officers' club that reproduced the zebra-striped banquettes of El Morocco; to men 9,000 miles from home, it symbolized American class...
...murder, it has evolved from the cartel's last-ditch way to protect market share into its preferred means of communication. "They rule by terror," says Errol Chavez, special agent in charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration's San Diego office. According to testimony from former associates, Ramon often rises in the morning announcing, "I feel like killing somebody today," then satisfies the urge in ways designed to build the legend, feed the fear. Trademarks include "the Colombian necktie"--cutting an informant's throat below the chin, then pulling his tongue through the wound as he bleeds to death...
People like Randall Adams, who was nearly executed for the 1976 killing of a Dallas policeman until Errol Morris’s 1988 documentary, The Thin Blue Line, demonstrated that Adams’s principal accuser had in fact committed the crime...
...FIRST PERSON (Bravo). Filmmaker Errol Morris beautifully shot these profiles of odd obsessives (a squid hunter, an abattoir designer). In his trademark style, he had his subjects tell their stories gazing straight into the lens; their eyes were windows to the surreal...