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...close-for-comfort scene in the pilot, in which an assassin (out to kill a presidential candidate) blows up an airplane in flight. The explosion will be cut, but, says co-creator Robert Cochran, the story line will stay the same: "Our obligation is to treat this subject with realism and intelligence and as much insight as we can." Alias creator J.J. Abrams says he's made one change, but The Agency is completely discarding its original pilot, which dealt with terrorism and Middle East intrigue and mentioned Osama bin Laden. "Slowly, we will get back to the reality...
...Bradford’s stories recount fantastical episodes involving dogs, but many of the stories involving humans are tinted with magical realism and bizarre turns of events. “Chainsaw Apple,” for instance, is a deeply unsettling and deliciously satisfying story concerning a woman whose face is disfigured by a man who tries to carve her initials into an apple she holds in her mouth. In “Bill McQuill,” the narrator nonchalantly informs us, “The train had run Bill over just below the waist, cutting...
...department store down the street from me closed last week, and the people around me say, "Who knows what will come in its place - maybe something better?" Living abroad, I might have called that wishfulness. Coming to Japan, I've learned to call it realism...
There you have pretty much the blurbs one suspects HBO and producers Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg were aiming for with this 10-hr. World War II mini-series (Sundays, 9 p.m. E.T.). Judged on apparent realism, it earns them. It effectively borrows the jerky, chaotic camera techniques that Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan (which Hanks starred in) used to mimic the soldiers' confused, terrified perspective. It is based closely on historian Stephen Ambrose's book about Easy Company, an elite paratroop unit that had the dubious luck to land knee-deep in key moments of the war in Europe...
...other top Chinese directors, Feng didn't graduate from one of the nation's hoity-toity film academies. He started as a lowly film set painter for the People's Liberation Army, working on propaganda films. When the filmmaking bug bit, Feng hoped to inject his films with gritty realism, so in the early 1990s he spent several years slaving over a set of searing social commentaries. But not a single one made it past the skittish Chinese censors and, most distressing to Feng, no one in Elite film circles bothered to back him up. Making a U-turn, Feng...