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Executive producer Marc Platt and writer Cyrus Nowrasteh say they wanted to match the just-the-facts tone of the report. ("The report didn't use any adjectives" is a mantra both men repeat. It's exaggerated but true to the commission's spirit.) Platt hired director David L. Cunningham, a documentary veteran, to give the movie a vérité look, without emotional tricks like zooming in on fraught moments. That's not to say all the actors are dispassionate. Lauria recalls his having volunteered at ground zero after 9/11: "You realize how good people are. A good leader would...
...Orah S. Platt, a professor of pediatrics and master of the Castle Society, of which Magoon was a member, wrote in an e-mail, “He would have been one of those doctors everybody wanted—[he] wanted to figure out why they were sick and fix them, to be the one to break bad news, to celebrate good times, to advocate for them, to keep them healthy...
Magoon was a Jefferson Scholar at the University of Virginia, graduating in 2003. He took a year off before enrolling at HMS, spending time in Valencia, Spain, according to Platt...
Here's a play that needs no introduction. Or, rather, shouldn't have one, because to say too much could spoil the frisson of Conor McPherson's odd, unsettling drama with supernatural overtones. In contemporary Dublin, a man (Oliver Platt) who thinks he has seen the ghost of his dead wife seeks the help of a therapist (Brían F. O'Byrne) who has his own problems. In a series of simple, two-character scenes, we learn more about the sadly self-involved lives of each, before McPherson abruptly sends us out into the night, gasping...
...danger is that Macy's will oversaturate its stores with merchandise that is exclusive but still unexciting. "Consumers don't want to go and find the same thing at every darn store," says Pam Danziger, president of Unity Marketing. Steven Keith Platt, head of a Hinsdale, Ill., retail think tank, the Platt Retail Institute, expects Federated to make deals with several well-known apparel and housewares makers to create products that consumers will find only at Macy's. Lundgren says he has already received at least half a dozen such offers but hasn't inked any deals...