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docudrama

doh kuhd ra muh

  • n  a film or TV program presenting the facts about a person or event

  • Spin doctor (or spin-doctor) got 1,412 mentions, dumbing down 3,905, docudrama (or docu-drama) 2,848, sociobiology 6,679, zippergate 1,752, studmuffin 776, post-structural (or .
  • The director, who last year did the excellent docudrama United 93, has defined his Bourne location work as guerrilla filmmaking using concealed cameras in "wild" situations .
  • An accidentally timely docudrama shows how the election of 2000 led to the obsessions of 2008.
News & Articles

  • Source: There will be no Rivers deal
    The Docudrama has taken a new, and possibly fatal, turn. A league source just told the Herald that negotiations between the Celtics and Clippers over the release of Doc Rivers from his contract have ended. Though there is a slim chance that talks could resume for a third time, both sides appeared to acknowledge today that nothing can be gained.
    June 21, 2013 - Boston Herald
  • The weird gets weirder - Celts postpone Doc/Ainge presser til Monday
    The impending end to Doc Rivers' nine-year run as Celtics coach will have to sweat through at least three more days. The Celtics, after announcing a press conference for Rivers and president of basketball operations Danny Ainge this morning, reversed course two hours later on their Docudrama and delayed the session until Monday.
    June 21, 2013 - Boston Herald
Quotes

  • Michael Chiklis in Forbes
    This is not a conventional shoot,Chiklis said. "It's really shot in a docudrama style - oftentimes, we don't even lay marks (for the actors). It's raw and ugly. We do it fast and furious."
  • Al Gore in USA Today
    In a statement Friday, former Vice President Al Gore said, "I am deeply concerned that ABC is considering going forward with their plans to broadcast this so-called docudrama."
  • Rupert Wainwright in Dallas Morning News
    We're not making a documentary,Wainwright said. "We're making a docudrama. At every step of the way, we've put truthfulness at the top of our priorities. But we are forced to condense characters. We have to condense time."

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