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He cites a journalist named Jeanne Loughlin, who wrote about Caesar’s perfect fit for television: “His spontaneous, adroit facial expressions—wonderful in television close-up—might be lost on a theater stage. His comic material, drawn mainly from perceptive observation of everyday life, might not be broad enough buffoonery for the movies. At night clubs, perhaps much of his comic creation of the adventures of an average man might be wasted.”

To personalize his close-up, Martinez had a suggestion of his own.

There are jump cuts too, and interludes of his actors in close-up that could be color screen tests or just a nod to Hujar’s aptitude for portraits.

There, finally, Powers got a close-up look at the Utility-2—or, as they’d started calling it, the U-2.

Rumsfeld and Cheney both had a close-up view of Nixon’s harsh decline during the Watergate scandal and the impending impeachment.