Word: scanner
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...call from Darryl Zanuck saying, 'Come do this movie on Monday.' So you have to do it on your own." He has already checked off teen flick (Dazed and Confused), western (The Newton Boys), romance (Before Sunrise), sequel (Before Sunset), animation (Waking Life), sci-fi (A Scanner Darkly, due in 2006), filmed play (Tape) and a kids' movie (School of Rock). If you've got a script for an Elizabethan musical, now might be the time to send it over...
...days a year to film a fictional story about a kid as he grows from first to twelfth grade.) But as Linklater makes the arrangements, the rest of his office looks like a mini Skywalker Ranch. It's packed with 50 artists on flat-screen computers working on A Scanner Darkly. They're using the same rotoscope process used in Waking Life to turn tape of Keanu Reeves, Winona Ryder, Robert Downey Jr. and Woody Harrelson into cartoons for Linklater's adaptation of the novel by Philip K. Dick, whose stories have been turned into Blade Runner, Total Recall...
...interested in a trained ear—I want to hear it all. Some journalists look at a police scanner as a tool of the trade, but my obsession goes much deeper. The scanner is a complement to my personality. I am an inquisitive guy and a consummate rubbernecker. This beautiful black radio lets me in on everything going on around me, even if I can’t make it to the scene. I keep it blaring in my dorm room all the time, covering up silence with white noise...
Emergency responders, however, make up only part of this constellation of radio stars. My scanner tracks the chatter of taxi transmissions after a Red Sox game and the gastronomic gurgle at McDonald’s restaurants. Even the school bus fleet makes for a fine show. On the first day of school, I listened to dozens of little kids board the wrong buses and forget how to get home. Each time, the dispatchers directed the drivers to return the kids to the schools even if that delayed the next pickup by an hour. Here was a group of people genuinely...
...come to look at everyone differently, thanks to the scanner. The bus drivers, firemen, and police officers I spot during my daily routine transform into the radio personalities on my favorite show. The more I listen, the more I learn about their characters, which is what I love about reporting. I get access to an endless stream of raw information that I can turn into a story. Neither job nor hobby, scanning is my addiction. Whenever I’m out and about I feel the painful sting of withdrawal from my scanner. At the first sound of a siren...