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December 17, 2001

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"It used to be the common wisdom that you lit a comedy differently from the way you lit a drama,"
Mr. Grazer said. "That's why so many older comedies look overlit. It was a way of signaling the audience that it was a comedy. But this one is lit so richly it looks just like you'd expect from a real, traditional western. This is just a distillation of the kind of look audiences had become accustomed to after so many years of John Ford and Howard Hawks movies. The audience back then was aware of
this, subliminally, and it added to the comedy." -- prodcuer Brian Grazer, in
WATCHING MOVIES WITH BRIAN GRAZER: Inducing Hilarity by Doses of Shock,
by RICK LYMAN NYT, December 14, 2001.

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A cassette ... had been slipped into a VCR attached to the big-screen television set at one end of the conference room, and Mr. Grazer was staring at the buttons on one of the various remotes arrayed around him, trying to figure out how to fire up the movie. The offices of Imagine, the film and television production company that Mr. Grazer founded with the director Ron Howard in 1986, are on the sh floor of a modern office building in the middle of downtown Beverly Hills, and the distant groan of traffic could be heard below along Wilshire Boulevard.

...

Mr. Grazer stared again at the remotes, pressed a couple of buttons. Nothing happened. He shrugged, handed it to me. I tried a couple of buttons, too. "Play" seemed a good bet. But no. He reached over and clicked on the intercom. A few seconds later, an assistant bustled into the room, smiling apologetically, and clicked a button on the front of the VCR. Immediately, the movie roared to life.

"We can make it louder," Mr. Grazer said. "I like it kind of loud."

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