Word: résumé
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...question that for Mann, and the genre, the docudrama approach was mostly an excuse to show lowlifes in low lighting. And if Higgins supplied the craft of Mann's noir films, cinematographer John Alton surely served up the art. Before hooking up with Mann, Alton had a nomad's r?sum?: born in Hungary, an assistant in Hollywood silent films, shooting pictures in Argentina in the '30s, then B and C movies back in America. The two men clicked as collaborators, sparking with extreme visual tropes, each instantly elevating the other's work. "I found a director in Tony Mann...
...Comeback Iraqi Joe Klein's column "Look Who's Back!" [Oct. 31], on the political fall and rise of Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Chalabi, referred to "the greasy residue on his r?sum?." Chalabi was responsible for erroneous information about Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction as well as the notion that invading U.S. troops would be greeted as saviors by the Iraqis. Those missteps do not make him an ideal candidate to be the next Prime Minister of Iraq. Chalabi's renewed friendliness with the Bush Administration is his key qualification to be the Bush-approved Prime Minister...
...Supersnoop Bush's choice of John Negroponte as the U.S.'s first Director of National Intelligence is loony [Feb. 28]. Negroponte may have a nice r?sum? and background, but he has no experience in intelligence gathering. Putting someone in charge of intelligence who has no idea what he is doing is like putting up a welcome sign for more terrorist attacks. Long Nghiem Placentia, California...
...Venugopal Rao Moram, a 29-year-old software engineer living in Bangalore, began looking for a new job in June this year, it took him just two weeks before he found the work he wanted?a position with Microsoft in the city of Hyderabad. "The moment you put your r?sum? on the Internet, the offers start coming in," says Moram, who's been working in the tech sector for six years. "Everyone looking for a job has at least five offers...
...DIED. FAY WRAY, 96, "scream queen" and star of more than 100 movies, including Erich von Stroheim's The Wedding March; in New York City. Despite her lengthy r?sum?, the sultry Wray is mostly remembered for her legendary role as Ann Darrow in King Kong?and for the scene in which she is carried to the top of the Empire State Building in the beast's fist. At the film's premiere she commented, "I wasn't too impressed. I thought there was too much screaming...