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They should look closely at the film before they leap to conclusions. White Hunter, Black Heart is based on co-screenwriter Peter Viertel's roman a clef, published some four decades ago, about his experiences in Africa when he was engaged by Huston to polish James Agee's script for The African Queen. Eastwood has dared to attempt a faithful impression of the director, his growling drawl, his loose-limbed stride, the arrogant tilt of his head. The result is a stretch for him as an actor, and fun for the audience...
...could come sooner, later or not at all. Predicting how the script will play out is almost impossible: war is an activity that almost always seems to be governed by Murphy's Law (if anything can go wrong, it will). Nonetheless, this is how a war with Iraq might start -- and how some Pentagon planners think the U.S. might win quickly and with minimum casualties...
Maybe. But even in the Pentagon there are commanders who consider this all an Air Force pipe dream. Other experts point out that the script is modeled on the stunning Israeli success in the Six-Day War of 1967. But 23 years later, technology is vastly different, and the Iraqis are much better armed, trained and led than the Egyptians were then. "You don't win a war only with air strikes," says Zeev Eytan at the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies in Tel Aviv. Administration estimates of American casualties in a quick...
...fanciful graffiti forms range from stylized signature "tags" to mural- size "pieces" that elaborately blend fanciful script, cartoon characters and messages with the artist's street name. In Los Angeles authorities are contending with organized teams of taggers who use sophisticated climbing gear to spray their signatures on overpasses or dodge high-speed traffic to emblazon murals on freeway center dividers. "They know their names will be up for months because the state department of transportation has to shut down the freeway to paint over the dividers," a harried official complained last week at a Los Angeles antigraffiti conference attended...
Translating a written tale into TV drama has its pitfalls. Excessive fidelity to the text can emphasize a story's origins on the page. Departure for drama's sake can suggest that what's onscreen came solely from a script. Those perils are present in 90-minute video anthologies -- something of an endangered species these days, like westerns -- that HBO and Showtime coincidentally offer for late-summer viewing. (Both debut Aug. 19.) Differently flawed, they nonetheless make for more satisfactory evenings than network reruns...