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Critics said CNN had "traded truth for access." (From the crowing over Jordan's "shocking revelations" on rivals Fox News and MSNBC, you'd have thought he had handed over each Christiane Amanpour script for Saddam to red-pencil.) Jordan had made 13 trips over 12 years to lobby Iraqi officials for interviews, and the line between protecting employees and sucking up is blurry--though, he noted, CNN covered Iraq contentiously enough that its reporters were often kicked out. But, as the New Republic's Franklin Foer points out, CNN also called Saddam's re-election with...
...could go in photography, and he agreed: "I knew I had nothing more to say. I felt it." Since then, he has devoted his time to painting and drawing, working on life-model nudes in his small Parisian studio or copying in museums. A handful of his pencil copies are included in the retrospective, along with delightful 1976 photos by Franck that show him sketching in Paris' Museum of Natural History, calmly ensconced in a spiky forest of prehistoric skeletons with huge tusks and twisted horns. A self-described "fine family's son gone bad," Cartier-Bresson grew up surrounded...
...music. When a guest sings 'F___ you, I hope you die of cancer,' the music shows what the character is feeling: 'I'm lonely, please don't leave.'" At a final rehearsal, Lee tensely kicks his shoes off and watches as music director Martin Koch anxiously conducts with a pencil. The music switches fluidly from baroque and Wagneresque bombast to blues, soul and, of course, modern opera. Characters trade obscenities. Michael Brandon's unerringly realistic Springer paces, arms folded, awaiting his cues. He speaks, they sing. It could all easily descend into chaos, but it works. As a diaper fetishist...
...their personal motivations have won them all a full day hunched over an answer grid with a number 2 pencil and a chance at their common dream to become doctors...
...Critics said CNN had "traded truth for access." (From the crowing over Jordan's "shocking revelations" on rivals Fox News and MSNBC, you'd have thought he had handed over each Christiane Amanpour script for Saddam to red-pencil.) Jordan had made 13 trips over 12 years to lobby Iraqi officials for interviews, and the line between protecting employees and sucking up is blurry - though, he noted, CNN covered Iraq contentiously enough that its reporters were often kicked out. But, as the New Republic's Franklin Foer points out, CNN also called Saddam's re-election with...