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WITH ALL THE PRE-OSCAR handicapping at the office water cooler, you don't hear many hot arguments about who's going to get the Editing award. So next Monday night, when that category is announced--"And the nominees are: Apollo 13, Babe, Braveheart, Crimson Tide and Seven"--and the winner stumbles into the spotlight to thank his mom and the director, almost no one will notice...
...public has no idea what we do," gripes Chris Lebenzon, nominated this year for editing Crimson Tide. "They think the scenes come out of the camera ready-made. Well, we take a mass of film and make a story out of it." It may be a massive mass: director Tony Scott shot 148 hours of footage for Lebenzon to play with. "My job," he says, "was to find the best two hours' worth." For a good editor, all that exposed film is like a slab of marble--marbles, really--from which he makes a coherent sculpture...
...reportedly taken up positions on outlying islands to defend against a possible beach assault as China prepares to begin another round of war games. The China Times reported today that preparations are being made on the Chu islands as China is expected to take advantage of Monday's high tide to practice beach landings on nearby Pingtan Island. About 300 people, more than half the population of the islands, and hundreds of fishing boats have fled the area. Because of bad weather, the eight- day exercises will be smaller in scale than the live-fire war games that started last...
...along with his brother Anthony and reputed second in command, Anthony Zerilli. "Here in Detroit, we believe we've driven a stake through the heart of La Cosa Nostra," said FBI Special Agent Joseph Martinolich Jr. Attorney General Janet Reno, underscoring the extensive government efforts to stem the tide of the mob, added that "In the last three years, 42 top figures in the La Cosa Nostra, including seven bosses or underbosses have been convicted by federal prosecutors." The indictment did not mention the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa, the former Teamsters Union president, believed to have been murdered...
...winning this battle right now, and I think we've got to turn the tide," said Brown University professor William Keach at the press conference...