Word: videos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...circumstances marked by the distraction of excited talk and loud laughter and disruptive groans, punctuated by the clatter of dishes. I suppose those of us who pay $15,000 a year for a Harvard undergraduate degree can at least be glad that the Greenhouse Cafe is both without the video machines in Tommy's Lunch and its local patrons...
Farrell's latent ambitions became a concrete project when he discovered Milton Cablesystem's community center. The center provides video equipment for non-profit productions. Ordinarily, the cable station focuses on local issues, filming such events as football games, debates, or talk shows. Very few movies appear on the station, and those that do usually last 90 minutes or less. How then was Farrell able to use the center to make a two-hour movie? According to Farrell. "We were in the right place at the right time...
Kathleen Isbell, the program director who also has a small role in the movie, had a different answer. Though at first skeptical about the idea of students using thousands of dollars' worth of professional video equipment, Isbell says she was strikingly impressed with Farrell's early films. "Even at a young age, his films showed remarkable talent. He has a natural ability...
...While shooting at 2 a.m., Actor Vic Morrow and two Vietnamese children were killed when special-effects explosions caused a helicopter to crash into them. A hearing is now under way in Los Angeles to determine whether Director John Landis (who, coincidentally, also directed Jackson's Thriller video) and four others should stand trial for involuntary manslaughter...
...been turned into a prison, a conversion that required little change in atmosphere. The athletes' quarters in Sarajevo have the mood of a small town, complete with landscaped square, where the flats are small but pleasant. The knotty-pine floors of various communal rumpus rooms (chess, billiards, video games, television, dancing) give the area a fragrance to compete with the common smell of burning brown coal permeating the countryside. At the sight of one game in particular, Americans are inclined to smile: a hockey machine worked by levers, with little U.S.A. men on one side and Soviets...