Word: stakeout
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...story line revolves around a love triangle involving a murder, stakeout, sentencing and jailing, but all of it is done in a tongue in cheek way. Each character is a subversive look at a stereotype. In examining such molds as the Kelly girl, the private detective, the codependent lover, the bobby socks-poodle skirt blonde, Hughes also assesses such images and then creates new ones. Accents and body language are mixed and transferred by the skilled actors. The subtext is continually brought to the surface and reconciled with the text or else dismissed, but in this case Hughes is responsible...
...videocam verite of the clubbing provides the same gritty realism that the Zapruder footage brought to Oliver Stone's JFK. The blow-by- blow of the investigation, the arrests, the confessions, the plea bargains -- it's all in the can. There was even a play within a play when stakeout cameras captured Tonya saving her illegally parked pickup from a tow truck. The most hardened Tonya detractor must have momentarily rooted...
Then, his thoughts turning back to last January's photo stakeout, Ryan angrily made a proposal: "O.K., you want to see me taking a piss again so you can take another picture of that...
...listen to the car radio on a stakeout, because you can't make any noise. You can't read the paper, because it's too dark. So all there is to do is sit and stare at the night. And wait...
...story ran this week, without a picture, and with almost no mention of the stakeout. The reporter and the photographer came to feel a little bit dirty about following people. We wonder if such feelings of guilt ever sweep over Bob Woodward...