Word: off-camera
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...cousin of Czar Nicholas II. Actually, there is evidence that he was born Harry F. Gerguson, the son of Russian immigrants. After trying his hand at farming, peddling papers and bumming, the flamboyant phony with the Oxbridge accent migrated West in 1927. In Hollywood, Romanoff was accepted as an off-camera actor in an actor's town; he opened his first restaurant there in 1939. "No one," he once said, "has ever discovered the truth about me-not even myself...
...bedroom where she is trying to convince members of Spooky Tooth that they should have their casts made. Hesitating for a moment, they finally agree. During the plaster casting, the camera pans away to a cabinet with the rows of completed casts. Soon, from the sounds of casting activity off-camera, someone yelps, "I'm stuck...
...exquisitely controlled work about exquisite control. While Jean-Louis is in the process of formulating his relation to the world, the director places him in a position facing, confronting everything. Point of view shots take on an austere, dialectical frontality, especially in dialogue sequences where Jean-Louis often speaks off-camera to the image on screen. The mere groupings of figures in a landscape have a definite significance in Rohmer's style. Not until after Trintignant's night with Maud, after he has decided to marry Francoise (whom he hasn't met yet), can he be grouped comfortably with others...
...Off-camera, he lives in Hollywood Hills in a home that sports a pool and sauna. He swims, bowls, has regular massages and rejects the notion that there is any significance in the fact that he is black. "Why does it have to be a question of black and white? I'm a comic, and my thoughts are reflected in what I do. I don't like to talk politics." But Flip tries to be more philosophical about his relationship with his audience. "I give an honest day's work, and I'm well paid...
...will shoot miles of film to get the few dozen feet he wants, then spend two weeks editing what took two days to shoot. He insists that his films do not change the candidate: "With any candidate, you maximize his assets, ignore his liabilities." Often he will sit off-camera, asking his candidate questions that did not get properly asked, or answered, the first time...