The New York area's three big airports have an aggregate screener crew of about 3,800, but even fully staffed that is "inadequate" to handle traffic, said Marc Lavorgna, a spokesman for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
At the climax of "Medium Cool," a National Guardsman launches tear gas directly at the camera, and an off-screen crew member shouts: "Look out, Haskell, it's real!" The moment is jarring, but "Medium Cool" compels us to distrust any separation between fact and fiction.
But passenger screening, armed crew members, prohibitions on licensed handguns and hunting rifles, metal detectors, wands, frisking, vehicle searches -- and an array of subtler, less intrusive security measures -- are on the table.
But passenger screening, armed crew members, prohibitions on licensed hand guns and hunting rifles, metal detectors, frisking, vehicle searches and subtler, less intrusive security measures, some already in use, are on the table.
I screen the crew members regularly — both psychologically and biologically — taking and processing various measurements and blood samples, including weight, blood pressure and oxygen levels.
Rather than seat-back screens, the crew hand out portable media players with preloaded films - a decent selection including The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Slumdog Millionaire.
Back home in Columbus, Ohio, almost 8,000 fans gathered at 7 30 a.m. to watch the American team's final match on large screens at Crew Stadium, home of the city's Major League Soccer team, the Crew.
But with the green screen, film crew, actors and expensive cameras and lights, it went far beyond the typical one-man YouTube videos filmed in a basement with a webcam.
… The patient flew in on a private jet, and we screened the crew members, as well as four relatives who had come with him.
Despite all that goes on in front of the screen, the crew is surprisingly small, comprising of the producer, the service producer (who, among other roles, makes sure that compliance is being followed—he is the metaphorical hand in front of the junk), and the skeleton camera crew, who double- and sometimes triple-up as lighting, sound, and music engineers.
