Put Stuff in Front of Your Lights

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LIKE A BALLERINA. I’m thinking of having a couple of ballerinas come with me on every assignment. You know, they would just step along “en pointe” behind me. When we came upon something interesting, or especially if we came upon something uninteresting—like an assignment to shoot the mayor’s press conference, or a groundbreaking, or the arraignment of the school superintendent who was taking kickbacks from the cement supplier for the new schoolyard and at the same time sleeping with the pastor’s wife—I would just tell ‘em to go over there in the foreground or background. Then, at least, there would ...

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