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Their best defense is camouflage: crab spiders perfectly mimic the coloration of flower petals, and flatties are practically invisible against lichen-covered rocks.

The coastal halibut fishery started Sunday, and it should be productive as populations of the giant flatties remain relatively stable.

This can entail weeks of meetings, phone calls, and test shoots designed to help directors unlearn much of what they know about two-dimensional films—or “flatties,” as V.R. triumphalists sometimes call them.

Bravo recently released a short film starring Alison Pill, and she is working on a TV show and a feature—all flatties.

Both had appeared in plays and flatties—FitzGerald plays Libby Masters on the Showtime series “Masters of Sex.”