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...weeks' catered meals for the real Spielberg's crew. The lowered cost of entry has encouraged all sorts of people to go into business -- full time or on the side -- taping everything from rock concerts to legal depositions. "All of a sudden I can give my videos the slick look TV audiences expect," says Jim Watt, a self-employed "videographer" who worked at NBC News for 12 years before the new technology enabled him to strike out on his own. Now he pursues a vocation many would covet: traveling to the world's choicest fishing spots to shoot instructional...
...gauntlet of party primaries (36 states in 1988) that give an almost unbeatable edge to the candidate who can raise the most money. Rather than bring presidential contenders closer to the voters, the current system virtually walls the candidates off behind a TV barrier of sound bites, slogans and slick 30-second spots...
This is the other Cannes festival -- the 38th International Advertising Film Festival. Here some 4,500 art directors, copywriters and filmmakers gathered to assess nearly 4,000 of the world's top television commercials. Schmaltzy or sexy, slick or surreal, suspenseful or satirical, the hottest spots were awarded 80 gold, silver or bronze "Lions" by a 23-member international jury...
...Nichols' effective, infuriating new weepie, works a cunning variation on the born-again theme. It eliminates the middleman, Death, by subjecting Henry Turner (Harrison Ford) to a gunshot wound that erases his memory. Bang!, you're a new man. The old one needed some revision. That Henry was a slick Manhattan lawyer who misused his gifts to ruin innocent men and save venal corporations. Instructed by his chic wife (Annette Bening) to apologize to their 11-year-old daughter (Mikki Allen), Henry instead scolds the dear girl in Latin. The guy barely deserves to live, until he gets a chance...
COMPUTER MORASS. The Weather Service finally replaced its main number- crunching supercomputer -- a clunky Control Data machine -- with a slick new Cray Y-MP last year, and has been upgrading the software for its radar and satellite stations. To speed the dissemination of data and forecasts between its central office in Camp Springs, Md., and weather stations around the country, it is building AWIPS, the Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System. However, AWIPS is already a year late. Meanwhile, a report by the National Research Council in May cast doubt on the ability of the NWS's small staff to manage...