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...symbiotic solution: send reality TV to war. Last week ABC announced Profiles from the Front Line, from producer Jerry Bruckheimer (Pearl Harbor, Black Hawk Down) and reality-TV wiz Bertram van Munster (Cops, The Amazing Race). The reality series, to air as soon as this summer, intends to tell the personal stories of soldiers in Afghanistan, the Philippines and beyond. On VH1's tentatively-titled Military Diaries (also aimed for summer), more than 60 soldiers with cameras will record their days and talk about how music helps them cope. (As Apocalypse Now taught us, rockin' tunes are integral to modern...
...video diarists were even allowed to bring cameras into cockpits on missions. After seeing early clips of AFP, says Tony Scott, the Air Force was so pleased, "they gave us carte blanche." And Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld personally signed off on Profiles. Perhaps it helps that Van Munster has touted Profiles' "strong patriotic message"; that Scott declares, "[AFP] is a great recruitment film for fighter pilots"; or that Bruckheimer has a track record of military-flattering blockbusters. "You have to have something behind you that says you're not going to hurt them," says Bruckheimer. "They don't want...
...film. As played by Alan Rickman, Snape occasionally sneers at the boy or proffers a strange warning, but whenever he follows his cautions with a toss of his mop-like hair, he looks more humorous than frightening. Looking like a blond version of Eddie Munster, Malfoy is not nearly as insidious either. Most centrally, the computer generated Voldemort fails to inspire the sheer terror that he invokes in the entire wizarding world, where he is called only “He Who Must Not Be Named.” It is as if the movie expects the audience to understand...
...market cap of $415 million, stay ahead of $75 billion Sony and $40 billion Matsushita? For starters, the company carved out its niche early by mastering the difficult art of making its product easy to use. "Avid is the most intuitive editing environment on the market," says Gene Munster, an analyst at U.S. Bancorp Piper Jaffray. Tim Squyres, film editor for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, says, "Avid's software has gone through many revisions of being designed to accommodate editors...
...However Binger says a role like Herman Munster was the only sort that Gwynne could consistently find...