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| Assistant goes on trial in ex-punk manager slaying NEW YORK (AP) -- The confession was dramatic and videotaped. The weeping woman described to a prosecutor how she fatally bludgeoned her boss - punk-rock pioneer and celebrity real estate broker Linda Stein - with a piece of exercise equipment.... hosted.ap.org |
Avatar 'perfection' causing depression THE sci-fi world in Avatar is so perfect fans are depressed and suicidal that they can't visit it. news.com.au |
Bizarre Boyle antics raise health fears FEARS grow over the best-selling singer's increasingly unusual behaviour and bizarre public rants. news.com.au |
'Creation' Review: Darwin's Grief, 'Origin of Species' Director Jon Amiel's movie Creation poses the theory that were it not for the death of his beloved daughter Annie, Darwin might have kept his hypothesis to himself feedproxy.google.com |
Clip joint: journalists Hold the front page and admire Rob Streeten's clippings file of the best film morsels featuring cool correspondents and deadline junkies, then suggest some column inches of your ownReporters, whether they're of the fictional or based-on-real-life variety, not only make film terrific characters but also provide movies with a ready-made narrative driver. Following a newshound new to a story excuses otherwise awkward exposition as the audience learns with the protagonist. We can love their integrity as it sweeps them towards the truth as much as we are exasperated by their bullheadedness as they pursue a story regardless of the consequences. In the movies, journalism has propelled the action as a corrupt administration is brought down, as well as provided cover for the identity of a superhero.It is the cinematic device that can put familiar characters in unfamiliar environments and drive them to the heart of drama. The quick wits and big characters in a newsroom provide articulate ordnance for rapid-fire exchanges of dialogue, veering from the hard-bitten cynicism of the investigators in Zodiac to the fast-talking flirtation in His Girl Friday. With print deadlines looming, a story is gifted dramatic urgency from this natural ticking clock.When the journos writing the stories start becoming the stories, great films are made. So here are my top tenacious movie hacks:1) Woodward and Bernstein, with the help of Deep Throat, blow the Watergate scandal wide open in All the President's Men.2) Walter Burns and Hildy Johnson go nineteen to the dozen in His Girl Friday.3) Guy Hamilton's passion for the big story comes at a cost in The Year of Living Dangerously.4) Sydney Schanberg's reports exposed the horrors of Cambodia's civil war in The Killing Fields, but he couldn't have done it without his fixer Dith Pran.5) Clark Kent is more than the side parting and thick-rimmed glasses that preserve Superman's anonymity (0min 35sec-0min 51sec).Last week, solidchris asked for your favourite riffs on the theme of chat-up lines. Here are the ones he fell for:1) Persistence is futile for Woody Allen in Play It Again, Sam.2) Colin Farrell goes for an unorthodox approach In Bruges (at 2min 40sec). 3) Hancock director Peter Berg gets the ruthless treatment from the black widow herself in The Last Seduction (at 5min 50sec). 4) Jimmy Stewart finds It's a Wonderful Life with his dizzying promises.5) This week's winner is Dave Swift for suggesting the dark side of the macho approach line as Campbell Scott drips cold urbane resentment in that parable of shiftless masculinity, Roger Dodger.Thanks to swanstep, Chris7572, jamie12 and greatpoochini for the rest of this week's picks.Fancy writing Clip joint? Email Catherine Shoard for more details.guardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds guardian.co.uk |