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    Go Film Helps Out United Way/NFL

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    CLIENT

    United Way of America/NFL.

    PRODUCTION CO.

    Go Film, New York.

    Neil Tardio Jr., director; Michael Ozier, DP; Gary Rose, Jonathan Weinstein and Robert Wherry, executive producers; Jeff Rohrer, producer. Shot on location in Newark, Montclair, Englewood and Hackensack, N.J.

    AGENCY

    Young & Rubicam, New York.

    Taras Wayner, creative director; Dave Skinner, Stuart Garrett and Bob Steigelman, art directors; Darren Wright, Ted McCagg and Bob Potesky, copywriters; Charlie Capuano, broadcast producer; Samantha Lazarus, assistant broadcast producer.

    EDITORIAL

    Mad River Post, New York.

    Dick Gordon and Jason MacDonald, editors; Dahkil Hausif and Adam Nagata, assistant editors; Laura Relovsky, executive producer.

    POST

    Nice Shoes, New York.

    Chris Ryan, colorist; Mike Micheli, Russ Bigsby, Kevin Wade and Rich Schreck, online editors.

    VISUAL EFFECTS

    rhinofx, New York.

    Harry Dorrington, creative director; Angela Foster, producer.

    AUDIO POST

    Sound Lounge, New York.

    Tom Jucarone, mixer.

    SOUND DESIGN

    Mad River Post.

    Jason MacDonald, sound designer.

    Big Foote Music, New York.

    Matt Hauser, sound designer.

    THE SPOTS

    Ten :30s feature NFL players participating in various charitable organizations, while poking fun at themselves. "Neighborhood Watch" shows San Francisco 49er quarterback Jeff Garcia walking through a community. Although some of the people were hoping for a linebacker-sized man, the smallish QB is on the case, complete with directions taped to his wrist. "Chess" features safety Roy Williams of the Dallas Cowboys playing the game with some kids. He uses football analogies to name his chess pieces, only to wind up losing the match to a "Hail Mary." John Abraham, defensive end for the New York Jets—who volunteers as a tutor—faces off with a youngster who is good with numbers in "Tutoring." The boy tells a disappointed Abraham that the Jets will win the Super Bowl in 2006. Atlanta Falcons defensive end Patrick Kerney, who phones seniors to cheer them up, gets advice—and more—from some lively older people in "Phone Calls." Kicker Martin Gramatica of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, who volunteers as a computer tutor, is the victim of a computer football game prank in "Computer Training." In "Children’s Camp," Will Shields, guard for the Kansas City Chiefs, lends his time to a kids’ camp where, unfortunately, hide-and-seek is a problem because he’s too big to hide. "Santa" shows Miami Dolphins defensive end Jason Taylor portraying St. Nick. For presents, he gives out bobbleheads of teammate Ricky Williams with his number (99) pasted on the front. "Job Skills" features New York Giants wide receiver Amani Toomer teaching job interview skills, including how to dress. When it comes to tying his own necktie, however, he fails miserably. In "P.A.L.S.," Green Bay Packers wide receiver Donald Driver, who volunteers at a program to bring pets to seniors, finds that many of the people have named their animals after famous Packers ("Nitschke," after the famed linebacker Ray Nitschke; "Bart," after Bart Starr; and "Vince" for Hall of Fame coach Vince Lombardi). When Driver asks about the name "Donald," a senior tells him, "Don … after Don Hudson, the greatest Packer of them all." And "Drama" shows New Orleans Saints defensive end Darren Howard helping out at a children’s drama program, where youngsters act out scenes from such movies as Taxi Driver, The Karate Kid and Titanic.

    Spots broke Sept. 4.

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    Daniel Craig Embraced Openness For Role In Director Luca Guadagnino’s “Queer”

    Tuesday, November 26, 2024

    Daniel Craig is sitting in the restaurant of the Carlyle Hotel talking about how easy it can be to close yourself off to new experiences.

    "We get older and maybe out of fear, we want to control the way we are in our lives. And I think it's sort of the enemy of art," Craig says. "You have to push against it. Whether you have success or not is irrelevant, but you have to try to push against it."

    Craig, relaxed and unshaven, has the look of someone who has freed himself of a too snug tuxedo. Part of the abiding tension of his tenure as James Bond was this evident wrestling with the constraints that came along with it. Any such strains, though, would seem now to be completely out the window.

    Since exiting that role, Craig, 56, has seemed eager to push himself in new directions. He performed "Macbeth" on Broadway. His drawling detective Benoit Blanc ("Halle Berry!") stole the show in "Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery." And now, Craig gives arguably his most transformative performance as the William S. Burroughs avatar Lee in Luca Guadagnino's tender tale of love and longing in postwar Mexico City, "Queer."

    Since the movie's Venice Film Festival premiere, it's been one of the fall's most talked about performances — for its explicit sex scenes, for its vulnerability and for its extremely un-007-ness.

    "The role, they say, must have been a challenge or 'You're so brave to do this,'" Craig said in a recent interview alongside Guadagnino. "I kind of go, 'Eh, not really.' It's why I get up in the morning."

    In "Queer," which A24 releases Wednesday in theaters, Craig again plays a well-traveled, sharply dressed, cocktail-drinking man. But the similarities with his most famous role stop there. Lee is an American expat living in 1950s... Read More

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