Word: minicam
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...safe for influence peddlers and ego strokers. But the Capitol building is no place for GEORGE CLOONEY with a minicam, say congressional leaders who banned the crew of K Street, the docudrama about a fictitious Washington lobbying firm that Clooney is producing with director Steven Soderbergh. In a letter sent to Senate staff members last week, the body's Rules and Ethics committees said the filming of the HBO show, which mixes actors with real politicians in unscripted scenes, violates rules against using Capitol space for commercial purposes. A never-aired test episode relied on impromptu dialogue in Senate halls...
...Street and visitors in search of JFK, and your mornings offering them (now hung-over but still confused) directions to the T. For amusement, however, you'll have the fun of watching some Crimson Key guide try to explain the empty bottles littering the Yard to a flock of minicam-toting parents...
...football has become a slick, indoor imitation of itself, jazzy old New & Slightly Used Orleans somehow remains the real thing, or nearly. On Bourbon Street in the French Quarter, a minicam crew stalks tourists, trying to find someone wearing a Broncos feed cap. The visitor ducks around the corner into Preservation Hall, a magnificently funky storefront that looks as if it has been flooded and drained a few times, where a $2 donation lets you stand and listen to some grand old Dixielanders wail the stuffing out of St. James Infirmary and Muskrat Ramble...
...world into a sly fun- house mirror. The show skewers a host of familiar political types, from the tough-as-nails campaign manager (Pamela Reed), who fends off late-night calls from Joe Kennedy Jr., to the overzealous staff cameraman, who dogs Tanner's every step with his whirring minicam. The candidate, meanwhile, is an earnest but wimpy liberal who quotes Adlai Stevenson at environmental rallies and wilts slowly under a shower of political advice ("You really need to define yourself in relation to the other candidates"). It looks, sounds and feels like the real thing. But it's flagrantly...
...this era of world leadership, the metal detector is the altar and the minicam...