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...love split screen. I didn't know that until recently, when I became that most pathetic of cultural victims - a 24 addict. All those paranoids simultaneously plotting one another's destruction in far-flung locations, yet unaware of what, specifically, the other guys and gals are up?except activities that will, by the end of the episode, result in one or more individuals being prettily tied up and awaiting some high-tech unpleasantness to be continued (but not necessarily concluded) the following Monday. As a technique, split screen has been around almost since the beginning of the movies. Although...
...Split screen is generally a sometime thing in movies and television, since endlessly divided attention grows tiresome in large doses. On the other hand, the news that Conversations with Other Women - all 84 minutes of it - was to be shot entirely in split-screen filled me with unreasoning anticipation. It has been done before, but it's always fun to watch someone (in this case director Hans Canosa) pushing an envelope, even one that doesn't entirely aware need a shove...
...little lovemaking thrown in, taking place in one small hotel room over the course of a few short hours. There is - utterly, totally, completely - no reason to show "Man" (Aaron Eckhart) and "Woman" (Helena Bonham Carter) in anything but conventional movie terms. I mean, why would you bother to split the screen when they are basically standing (or occasionally lying) next to one another in cramped quarters...
...that Lieberman is planning to run as an independent, which splits the Democratic vote, there's talk among GOP election planners about finding someone who can put up a good showing. Connecticut has 671,656 Democrats, 449,727 Republicans and 844,433 other registered voters, meaning a strong GOP candidate could have a legitimate chance in a three-way race. "There would be a lot of interest of having a strong candidate run," says one Republican official in Washington. "If you split that thing three ways anything can happen...
...Schlesinger's intransigence hasn't stopped Republicans from dreaming. At the Republican National Committee meeting in Minneapolis last week, there was talk of how the Democratic split might be exploited. Says one GOP strategist who was at the Minneapolis meetings: "If Lieberman loses the primary and runs as an independent, there are people in Republican circles who want to raise money for him because they agree with him. Then the question is how much acrimony is left over from his excommunication...