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Just for the record, the photographs in the cover story and on the cover of this week's issue are all by award-winning photographer Donna Ferrato, a meticulous documentarian who has spent the past 13 years of her life taking pictures of domestic abuse. In this case, it is almost painful to report that none of her pictures have been altered...
...times are surreal enough now; we can appreciate Fellini as a prophet and documentarian of every cultural excess of the late 20th century. There's no question that Fellini was in part satirizing his milieu. But because he was incapable of a stillborn frame of film, his pictures celebrate what they criticize; they amount to a cautionary blueprint for survival in the atomic age. If you've been very lucky or very naughty, then life for you is like a Fellini movie...
...they include: the network's own anchor Tom Brokaw, and its Washington bureau chief and Meet the Press host Tim Russert; ABC News president Roone Arledge, his executive vice president Paul Friedman and Nightline anchor Ted Koppel; CNN president Tom Johnson and executive vice president Ed Turner; and PBS documentarian Bill Moyers. There may be others. Although the search has been under way for at least a month -- since before Michael Gartner resigned -- somewhat less glittery prospects were still being approached late last week...
ASPEN (PBS, Dec. 30, 9 p.m. on most stations). Frederick Wiseman, the no- frills documentarian who has explored everything from hospitals to animal laboratories, gets a rare dose of fresh air in this 2 1/2-hr. look at the trendy Colorado retreat...
...long passages in Hotel Terminus (the title refers to the hostelry where Barbie had his headquarters) in which the picture's failure to select and shape its materials seriously vitiates its power to grip and instruct our consciences. Worse, there are deeply disquieting moments when Ophuls abandons the documentarian's traditionally modest on-screen role as a reporter in search of a story and presents himself instead as an egotist in search of a platform...