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...entity of that photography,” Burns said. He’s been at it ever since. “I have spent my life trying to express history in a broad, popular way.” Burns emphasized that he tries to liven up the history that can often be dismissed as dead or boring by exploring the larger meaning and implications behind it. “I think that the excavation of the dry dates and facts have really little meaning,” said Burns. “Why you really want to mine the past...
...headdress dripping with beads and feathers. TV viewers will see the more conventional Belafonte-Harper again next fall when she returns to her Hotel information desk. Maybe if fans complain, stern James Brolin, who runs the hostelry, will let her cut loose. Why not that headdress and feathers to liven up the lobby...
...have helped boost the event. Although this race used to draw big names like former Olympian Danny Clark and Tour de France workhorse George Hincapie, as well as amateurs, organizers say attendance at this four-corner criterium (a short race course) has suffered in more recent years. To liven things up a bit, Eustice decided to bring two very different cycling cultures together on the same 3/4-mile course along the brownstone-lined streets of Harlem - the pros and the bike messengers. "I almost look at them as the artists colonizing the big race," says Eustice, who organized the event. "When...
Reality television programs have dealt with this actual reality in a number of ways: They liven up the more mundane moments of everyday life with high-stakes competition, exotic locales, or the prospect of fame, no matter how faint (see: “The Surreal Life”). Some combine all three of these things...
...arresting and their almost inevitable presence in documentaries is one reason the form?s audience is so severely limited. You generally approach factual films dutifully, without the joyous (if oft disappointed) anticipation you bring to fictional features. Errol Morris is acutely aware of this defect, and he likes to liven things up by bringing what Hollywood has always called ?production values? to his docs. His new movie, Standard Operating Procedure, about the shocking photographs that revealed the horrific conditions at Iraq?s Abu Ghraib prison circa 2003, offers a compendium of these techniques...