Word: photographic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Shannon--played as the stoic strong man in the Sly Stallone mold by Chris Walken--pretends he is in Zangaro to photograph birds. The ruler's men may be brutish, but they're no dummies, and Shannon gets the bejesus kicked out of him before he is deported. Back in New York, multinational enterprise knocks on his door again, this time to ask if he might not enjoy returning to Zangaro and overthrowing the government. And, of course, replacing it with a regime equally bad but tied more closely to the free world's engines of capitalist progress...
...reports that I've seen since the aborted rescue mission in April have said that eight servicemen died in the attempt. However, in your photograph of the arrival of the bodies at the Zurich airport [Jan. 26], nine caskets are lying on the tarmac. Did you use the wrong photo? Was there actually a ninth casualty...
Denied the chance to photograph the moments of reunion, the press had to settle for a morning-after press conference, with the hostages impersonally lined up like the Soviet Presidium. It wasn't the cozy atmosphere that TV interviewers favor. The first question asked at the press conference was not even about the hostages' welfare, or about their families: it was Daniel Schorr wanting to know the hostages' attitude toward the press. Did Schorr expect a testimonial from them, or would he have been just as happy (since TV interviewers like to elicit on-screen emotion...
...hours at a time. She leaves the Roxy, much refreshed, at 4 a.m. and goes home to her boyfriend, she relates later with enthusiasm. By 8 in the morning she is reclining in the studio of Arsi, her Rumanian skin specialist. Later she is sitting in the kitchen of Photographer Ara Gallant, being made up for the Italian edition of Vogue. Gallant's apartment is a good setting for Apples; the floors are white, with rivers of fake blood, the living room is solid black, and the dining room, where she will be photographed, has a stainless steel floor...
...title role Albert Dieudonné gives a great silent performance of looks, gestures and poses. Mostly, however, people are used as unparticularized symbols. Nor are there many dramatically pointed scenes, only groupings in which it is up to cameraman, editor and director to ferret out (and impose) meaning-to "photograph thought," in Griffith's phrase...