Word: screens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...busy day at the clinic, Dr. Damon Stutes, 43, changes out of his surgical scrubs and climbs into his four-wheel-drive truck, custom built for high-speed chases. He slides open his Berretta pistol to make sure it is loaded. Pointing a remote control toward a video screen on the garage wall, he flips through eight channels, each offering a different camera view of the outside grounds. As the garage's metal door slides open, he tucks a bulletproof vest between his body and the truck window and steps on the gas. "Once I start moving, a sniper...
...beau, Johnny Depp), Ryder grew up on film and matured in her skills. By the time of Little Women, when she had enough clout to jump-start the project and enough savvy to help select the luminous young cast, she could play a very convincing big sister to her screen sibs. She kept the young actresses amused on the Vancouver set with games like Take a Bow. For example: "Bow like the fading star who knows she's going to be replaced next week...
...arrived as neither a leather-jacketed Johnny Depp knock-off nor a mall-stud Tom Cruise clone. Instead, the Londoner brought urbane sex appeal back to the screen. Womankind swooned at Grant's portrayal of a befuddled, beguiling wit in Four Weddings and a Funeral...
...most intimate dimension of privacy, even the most disreputable (the more shameful the better, in fact), goes public. The significance of the phenomenon (the messiest personal or aberrational details of lives blown up to big- screen public dimensions) cannot be overstated. When people speak of the negativity of the time, this is what they mean -- the disassembly (usually electronic) of proportions and expectations: the energy released by a world turned inside out. The change may be an improvement. Sometimes it merely works like a slow-motion nuclear device dropped into the social order...
...Belle et la Bete, however, goes one audacious step further. The whole 1946 film, starring Jean Marais and Josette Day, is projected on a screen, with English subtitles but without its sound track. Flanked by a seven-piece band of winds and synthesizers (one played by Glass himself), Alexandra Montano (la Belle), Hallie Neill, Gregory Purnhagen (la Bete) and Zheng Zhou stand beneath the screen singing Glass's operatic setting of the script. Glass not only had to get the rights to the film, he also had to pay not to use composer Georges Auric's score; and while...