"Their unity is vitally important and the early clips I've seen suggest that this is our biggest problem".
He had crossed out two-thirds of the early clips, and he had written notes about what remained: "Nice but later"; "Where's this coming from?" His anticipation of an audience's likely boredom, disquiet, or satisfaction is unusually visceral.
In a disturbing early clip, he is shown among naked and unkempt toddlers who recite radical cant.
He played an early clip in which he proudly presents his wife with an idea for a name for the company: Orelo, which means "ear" in Esperanto.
In June 2011, after an early clip from the movie was posted online, Ms. Sipprelle was invited to testify before the Senate's Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee in Washington.
"Make me look like Lena Horne, if you possibly can, Mr. Light Man," Mabley remarks in a wonderful early clip, with wry swagger.
I have since seen an early clip of him singing one of his own compositions and playing his piano accompaniment, and I realized how far he had come.
Then, there are the visual rhymes: an early clip of President Nixon, announcing the cessation of the conflict on TV, is echoed by a closeup of a Nixon figurine on a pilot's dashboard, nodding madly as the helicopter dives to its doom.
Julia Roberts sat down with Oprah for an interview airing Monday, and an early clip is online now.
A little over a month ago Avengers director Joss Whedon took some grief for criticizing as sexist an early clip that Universal had released.
