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...That is what you call bait," says Spotter with a laugh, looking down the sights of the rifle. He whistles a warning to his homeboys on the street. A black-and-white comes into view, doing a slow lap around four or five blocks, up Pico, across Mariposa, down and back around. Then it leaves. The Playboys laugh at the departing cops. Two years ago, CRASH teams were all over them, jumping out of their patrol cars to search them for weapons and drugs, getting them to pull up their shirts to show their tattoos, pumping them for information about...
...younger gangsters, the shootings are like a game. And with the cops pulling back, the game has only one rule: Kill or be killed. On a Saturday night in the Playboys' neighborhood, three young gang members are hanging out--Rowdy, Spotter and Mad Dog. Spotter has taken a sniper's position with a rifle on top of a building overlooking Pico. Rowdy is down at the corner with a Beretta handgun in a pocket of his baggy pants, and Mad Dog is standing in the street, flashing gang signs at passing cars and looking to draw fire from any rival...
...caterers alike in his thick New Zealand accent ("conceptual artwork" turns into "con-sip-shull aht-wook") and interviewing them about whatever it is they do. We meet such unsung heroes as Tony Drawbridge, a propmaker who handcrafts fake animal poop, and Ngaire Woods, the production's plane spotter, who sits on a hill with binoculars and watches for passing aircraft that might disrupt a shot. There are some naysayers. "I can't believe they get to see me in costume and makeup," says a visibly shaken Jack Black, who plays Carl Denham. "Isn't that, like, verboten...
...game unfolded, an operator conferred with the spotter in the stadium to gauge the placement of the first-down marker. He then punched the yardage into PVI's vMagic software program, which lets the operator preview the lines on a screen. After a quick review, he hit a green button on a square control pad, putting the lines on the air. Said PVI senior systems operator Alan Bress: "It's like playing a video game at this point...
...knew initially as Mohammed. When I met him the first time, on a downtown Gaza City street, the meeting had been arranged to look like a casual encounter as we walked amid the regular Hamas rally after Friday noon prayers. He was worried I might be a spotter for Israeli military hit teams who employ informants, sometimes unwittingly, to lure targets into range. But he felt comfortably anonymous among the noisy, armed Hamas partisans...