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Altman films busy scenes in unusually long, fluid takes of five or six minutes with three, sometimes four, cameras running simultaneously. His cinematographer, Ed Lachman, says it's "like performing free-form jazz." At Altman's elbow during last month's shooting was his friend and fellow director Paul Thomas Anderson (Magnolia), standing by at the insurance company's behest in case anything happened to Altman...
Choosing a woman for a senior position used to be enough to spark speculation that the company was in trouble. Leanne Lachman, president of the Chicago-based Real Estate Research Corp. (estimated 1985 revenues: $7.8 million), recalls that her promotion in 1979 triggered such stories about her firm. Says she: "Appointing a woman as president was a high-risk thing to do at the time." Barbara Gardner Proctor avoided the problem in 1970 when she founded her Chicago advertising agency by naming it Proctor & Gardner. Some early clients, she recalls, "assumed that there was a Mr. Gardner...
...Raquel L. Lachman...
...specials and alternative programming, who saved the network when it was drowning in failed sitcoms. In 1995, Darnell slotted Alien Autopsy: Fact or Fiction?, after which there was no turning back to Herman's Head. The next year, after seeing Nelson's World's Most Dangerous Animals, he persuaded Lachman to turn out the edgier When Animals Attack for sweeps. Now Darnell comes up with 75% of the ideas for Fox's reality specials, grateful that the phrases world's most and caught on tape aren't copyrighted. Thirty-six, 5-ft. tall, with curly, flowing hair, Darnell is unapologetic...
...vault at Fort Knox, they'll be treated to five-legged pigs and lady sumo wrestlers. Nelson's next project is Crash Test, in which producers pick things to blow up. (The first two ideas: exploding 1,000 parking meters and throwing a Corvette off a building.) Meanwhile, Lachman is working on a show in which he'll sink a ship and tape it going down in real time. By then, with luck, we'll all be watching cable...