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...standard critical line on director ROBERT WISE, who died last week in Los Angeles at 91, was that his films lacked personality, those visual signatures and obsessive themes that set true auteurs apart from studio hacks for hire. He also had the critical misfortune to direct the Oscar-winning Sound of Music, that melting pile of Alpine slush that was for a long time the most popular movie ever released. But Wise, who broke in as a film editor--earning praise for Orson Welles' Citizen Kane and unjustified calumny for recutting The Magnificent Ambersons after Welles abandoned it--mastered over...
...China on Tuesday before a United Nations summit in Manhattan, broke the silence as aides herded out the last of the journalists who had been brought in to record the leaders' pre-meeting pleasantries. Bush and Hu were in a cramped Waldorf Astoria suite that was blazing with studio lighting installed by the White House. "All right!" Bush told the translators and underlings with a sly smile. "Now we can get some oxygen in this room...
...nearly so easy for Key is battling the formidable Cullen. (Facing the Finance Minister in Parliament, says Key, "is like playing Andre Agassi at tennis every week. It improves your game enormously.") In a TVNZ studio, during a debate between eight economics spokesmen, Cullen is itching to get involved, like a burly rugby breakaway hoping to crunch a small ball carrier if he would only dare to come his side of the ruck. Perky, motor-mouthed Cullen hints at Key's hidden agenda to cut public services and reprise the scorched-earth policies of former financial warriors Roger Douglas...
Unlike traditional radio, podcasting needs no studio, broadcast tower or hushed quiet. Best of all, there's no Federal Communications Commission regulation. Hosts can say what they like for as long as they like. Profanity works too. The Daily Source Code, although not quite "daily," is taped on the fly with a small recorder and a mike while Curry soaks up the scene wherever he happens to be--sitting in bed with his wife, piloting a helicopter or fixed-wing airplane (he has licenses for both) or taking a midnight stroll...
George Lucas is again breaking ground. The billionaire director, famous for blockbusters like Star Wars and Raiders of the Lost Ark, has built a new empire. It's the "ultimate digital studio," he says, an antidote to celluloid's costly chemical processing and vaunted studio system. The Letterman Digital Arts Center is a $350 million facility inside San Francisco's Presidio, a national park overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge. The idea is to advance production of digital films, games, special effects and animation--something Lucas has done for decades yet Hollywood hasn't quite caught on to. "We make films...