It uses the time other shows might spend on red herrings to build intimate profiles of detective and criminal.
Packer, a New Yorker staff writer, weaves back and forth between them, interspersing these intimate profiles with collages of news headlines and brief, sometimes scathing biographies of the public figures of the time, among them Oprah Winfrey, Sam Walton of Walmart, Jay-Z, Newt Gingrich and Colin Powell. Jay-Z, Newt Gingrich and Colin Powell
It is an intimate profile of Sade at a historical flash point.
As the documentary has done nothing but explore the shared life of the boomer as if it were a single, terrifying organism, the film's shift to an intimate profile is welcome.
Featuring interviews with friends, allies and those closest to him, this intimate profile of the quintessentially American singer-songwriter and activist discovers there's plenty more to the man born Henry John Deutschendorf Jr than Leaving On A Jet Plane.
He has spent the last month or so dominating much of the coverage about the mayor's race, thanks to a long and intimate profile of him in The New York Times Magazine and a series of television interviews.
Margo Whitcomb, the director, keeps the episodic play steadily in motion at the flexible Edith Bolte Kutz Theater, which has been configured into an intimate profile-style space where spectators sit on opposite sides of the playing area.
The premium network's first major documentary release of the year, which premieres at the Sundance film festival before airing in April, is an intimate profile of heiress-designer-artist-writer-socialite Gloria Vanderbilt, who at 91, appears to have lost none of her vitality and sass.
Whether they will actually wish to be "served" in this way, when the price of such service is having strangers build up intimate psychological profiles of them, remains to be seen.
Role Models is a self- portrait told through intimate literary profiles of his favorite personalities; some famous, some unknown, some criminal, some alarmingly middle of the road.
Projected through a network of discarded televisions, Kuso bounces from screen to screen in a series of interwoven vignettes that depict intimate character profiles set in a post-apocalyptic universe.
