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George Clooney directs and plays CBS producer
Fred Friendly to David Strathairn's Edward R. Murrow
in Good Night, and Good Luck.

Here's the trailer for Good Night, and Good Luck, the black-and-white movie about the confrontation between CBS newsman Edward R. Murrow and Sen. Joseph McCarthy, a post-war Commie witch hunter who saw a Red under every bed. George Clooney directs and plays legendary producer Fred Friendly to David Strathairn's Murrow. McCarthy is the real McC: the senator only appears in newsreels and kinescopes. No one could make him up.

Murrow let McCarthy's own words hang him on his TV show, See It Now, on March 9, 1954, starting a nationwide backlash against him. (transcript)

The film opens Friday in some markets, nationwide on Oct. 14.

Liquid Sculpture "is the process of creating shapes by dropping and splashing water, or other liquids. These sculptures are then photographed, since they last only a few thousandths of a second. Creating and capturing these engaging forms requires careful manipulation of the materials and precise control of the lighting and timing. I mostly use plain, clear water, sometimes with a little soap in it (gallery). I have experimented with food coloring, as well (gallery), and glycerin to increase the viscosity (gallery). Milk is a classic material and still enjoyable (gallery), and oil is very tempting (gallery)."

Why CEOs Should Blog: Jeneane Sessum interviews some who do.

Bad news at the Times on two fronts:

-- NY Times cutting 500 jobs to reduce costs. (A colleague noted the cost of buying About.com -- officially $410M, but rumored to be even more. Does the Times intend to replace its staff with the About Guides?)

-- Update on TimesSelect, the locked wall behind which the Times has imprisoned its columnists' writings:

There seem to be problems getting in to TimesSelect for some who've signed up, or are print subscribers entitled to membership:

Gawker is caught in a loop.

Laura Rozen: "Have been on the phone with the NYT for 20 minutes who are overloaded with calls of people similarly frustrated. All I can say is, for this amount of frustration, it is tempting to cancel one's subscription to the NYT altogether." She updates with emails from readers writing to her with their problems getting in.

JohnTabin.com: "This situation presents an obvious niche for a blog dedicated to tracking down links to Times columnists' syndicated work. So I went ahead and started one."

Scratchings, an interesting blog I discovered in my referrer logs after "Harry" blogged my TimesSelect item yesterday, links to "Two moving tributes to the late R.L. Burnside at los amigos de durutti and diddywah."

Burnside, a Mississippi-born bluesman, died Sept. 1 at 78. Fat Possum has tracks.

Wikipedia has much more about him.

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1 Comments

blueser said:

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Bye, blueser!

Link | September 25, 2005 6:50 PM
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