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Just how do they bring that football magic to TV every week? The production of television football has become a high-tech command performance. Behind the scenes, as Stover was getting ready to make that kick on a November Sunday afternoon, the CBS Broadcast Center in New York City looked like NASA control. The network was broadcasting four games simultaneously across the country (all of the CBS affiliates in Texas, for example, aired the Houston Texans--Indianapolis Colts contest, while New York, Baltimore and even North Dakota got Jets-Ravens). Hundreds of workers monitored screens in some two dozen control...
Perhaps Hollywood can't be trusted to make Hollywood-style movies anymore. When ancient-history films lumber like the elephantine Alexander, or when technological gewgaws abduct the magic of fantasy in films like The Polar Express, where can a curious cinephile go? China. That's where director Zhang Yimou blended history book with graphic novel in the worldwide hit Hero, and whence he returns with the even zippier, more cunning kung fu caper, House of Flying Daggers...
...which she suffers setbacks like accidentally turning her white dress into a red one (spilled juice). Spunky, sassy Alice, delightfully portrayed in Shannon's zestful drawings, is a fairy who seems content to remain grounded in the everyday. She senses--and her antics prove--there's plenty of magic there...
Sometimes even the photographic magic of Messrs. Soper and Brunner is not quite sufficient. That’s when FM begs our resident artiste, Scott, to conjure up an illustration or two. From cutout paper dolls of everyone’s favorite professorial stereotypes to the Shel Silverstein-inspired cover of this fall’s scrutiny on women and tenure, a Duquette creation never fails to amaze...
Dell and Mackinnon dig deep into the supply closet for their items. Dell compares herself to a paper teacup: it’s international, cheap, versatile and intense. MacKinnon’s roll of magic tape, she says, represents “making things stick...