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...vanguard of documentary filmmaking: no interviews, no narration, no overt intrusion of the filmmaker's point of view. Since then, the technique has become something of a TV cliche. Prime-time shows from Hill Street Blues to CBS's 48 Hours have appropriated the hand-held camera and other slice-of-life touches. Even commercial directors have tossed away their tripods: cameras wander about relentlessly, trying to sell "reality" as well as Nissan automobiles and Levi's jeans...
Detroit's automakers have been trying lately to break into the market for $50,000-plus prestige cars -- a lucrative slice of the business completely dominated by the Europeans. General Motors' first entry was last year's $56,533 Cadillac Allante, which is designed and partly assembled in Italy. The Allante has flopped in the marketplace, but GM does not give up easily. Early next year the company will introduce a souped-up version of the Corvette, called...
...TURNER'S COME AND GONE. Playwright August Wilson tops his last Broadway hit, Fences, with a mystical and moving slice of life set in a black boardinghouse...
...histrionically kisses the mogul's hindquarters. Ostensibly this scene of ritual abasement between old, close friends is being staged for an audience of one, the mogul's new secretary. It is also a central metaphor in Broadway's hottest new hit, Speed-the-Plow, a foulmouthed and ferociously funny slice of Hollywood life...
Wilson's fourth opus, The Piano Lesson, has already been produced at Yale. Like Joe Turner, it marries a naturalistic slice of life with mystic imagery. Set in 1936, it portrays a clan divided between struggling toward independence in the rural South and seeking a new life in the urban North, and it ends with a ritual exorcism. In a sense, all Wilson's plays are exorcisms, doomed but determined attempts to drive out the demons of memory. Says he: "The stigma of slavery is powerful. A few years ago, I went to a Passover service, and the first words...