Word: scene
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fire department arrived at the scene at 2:30 p.m. with four fire engines, two rescue trucks and a Hazardous Materials unit...
Most people were unaware that a spilled chemical caused Friday's fire until they saw the Hazardous Materials unit arrive. Firefighters double-checked the scene when they arrived to be sure no one had ignored the alarm and stayed in the building...
...collector of slave memorabilia, Winfrey cherishes the slave papers because these documents serve as the best vessel for connecting her--through name, age and price--to the real human legacy of slavery. While filming Beloved, she kept the slave inventory in her trailer on the set. She dedicated scenes to individual slaves by lighting a candle and praying aloud to them. Often, though, she became so emotional that she couldn't perform the scene...
...this Method-acting thing a tad too far. Recently, we reported that on the set of the ANDY KAUFMAN biopic Man on the Moon, Carrey asked for two separate trailers, one to play Kaufman and one to play Kaufman's alter ego, Tony Clifton. Last week, while filming a scene with wrestler Jerry Lawler, a bruiser who once put Kaufman in a neck brace, Carrey spontaneously spit on the wrestler in an unscripted move. Lawler, apparently also deep in character, charged Carrey and put him in a neck lock. The actor suffered only minor injuries but is now sporting...
...responding to it. "There's a moment," she says, "when you see Sethe's mother in the hanging scene. You see her eyes. To see that come alive was breathtaking." She was finally pleased and surprised by the achievement. "They did something I thought they never could: to make the film represent not the abstraction of slavery but the individuals, the domestic qualities and consequences...