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...their moneymaking to figure out how U.S. aid might help, while Bono strode up to a merchant selling psychedelic tie-dyed textiles and asked, "Have you ever heard of Jerry Garcia?" By the time the trip ends, the two may have a pilot for a new reality show: Survivor meets Blind Date...
...married at 30," she says. "I have a whole life plan. And it starts with this summer.") ABC calls the show a "reality mini-series"--networkese for "If we said 'documentary,' nobody would watch"--but the low-key, cinema verite narrative may put off fans of Survivor's contrived reality. Quinn Taylor, ABC's senior vice president for movies and mini-series, says Kopple resisted suggestions that she artificially juice the action. "We would say, 'Well, so-and-so's going to be at the beach. What if so-and-so went to the beach too?'" he says. "Nope...
...killed. But after all the politico-ethnic tsimmes and tsouris, the Jury (headed by U.S. director David Lynch) gave its top award, the Palme d'Or, to Roman Polanski's Holocaust saga The Pianist, an epic adaptation of the 1946 memoir by Jewish musician and Warsaw Ghetto survivor Wladyslaw Szpilman. Cannes this year was good for the Jews, and not bad for world cinema. It is always dangerous to find political significance in movies. Films are not news bulletins; they are dreams, acts of love, art and commerce. Still, the coupling of a Palestinian picture and an Israeli one (Amos...
...first, we called it a rescue and recovery effort: every ping, every bang followed by a strained call for silence, as the workers cautiously picked their way toward the sound, shouting reassurances, hoping they might find a survivor, miraculously clinging to life in the midst of the rubble. Later, the last, dogged hope abandoned to the harsh realities of the site, it became a salvage job: Pull the wreckage apart, keep your mask on, pray none of the broken steel beams falls on you. This was a daily grind cloaked in mindfulness, punctuated by constant, grim reminders of death...
...conversation. Since then, we have been trying to rebuild an Ed Sullivan from spare parts. Television, having mostly traded in mass storytelling for niche storytelling, has supplemented its limited diet of universally appealing programs like the Oscars and the Super Bowl by creating semireal events like The Bachelor and Survivor. Albums are one-week events: platinum albums are no longer achieved after two hit singles snake their way up Casey Kasem's chart but rather in the very first weeks, through promotion, before beginning their swift, inevitable drop. But no one has figured out how to create a blockbuster that...