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...lines, but also because the writers and actors have always recognized the inherent absurdity of the genre in which they work. Susan Lucci may not deserve an Emmy for her dramatic acting, but who can deny her talents as a first-rate comedienne? For years she has tackled Erica Kane with a mockingly forced resoluteness as Erica has gone about collecting ex-husbands through various careers as a supermodel (an occasion for Mahogany-inspired fashion-shoot montages), a cosmetics executive and editor of a news magazine called Tempo...
Freshman football player Kane Waller, meanwhile, always likes to have the same pregame meal. In the few instances where he was unable to have his usual dish of baked scrod and rice, his performance was mixed...
...process, the editor may also make art. Any cinephile's collection of favorite movie moments will include the Odessa Steps sequence from Eisenstein's Potemkin, the Citizen Kane dinner-table scene, the shower murder in Psycho, the final killings in Bonnie and Clyde--all of which were created not so much on the set as on the editing table. Try to imagine these scenes in single long takes, and you start to appreciate editing's vital contribution: it gives films the collision of images that creates a collision of emotions. It has been the primary technical touchstone for great directors...
...shots in a standard feature film. Editing, then, is the seams that don't show. The rule in Babe, says co-editor Jay Friedkin, was "Never break the spell." Most editors follow that commandment. "Editing should be invisible," says Robert Wise, an editor on Citizen Kane before he became a director, "so that the whole comes together in a strong, effective piece that carries the audience away...
...Louis I. Kane '53, the chair of the D.U.'s graduate board, was unavailable for comment