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...perennial directed by Chuck Jones, the Warner Bros. animation genius who had worked with Geisel on the wartime Private Snafu cartoons and, in 1966, brought Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! to the small screen. This Horton was narrated by another old Geisel colleague, Hans Conried, the actor who had incarnated that pedagogue-demagogue, that piano-teacher torturer, Dr. Terwilliker in Geisel's fantastical live-action film The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T. And you shouldn't miss the elephant's first appearance in movies, in the Warners cartoon Horton Hatches the Egg directed by Bob Clampett. This...
...trying to impress. Playfultouches such as this are a hallmark ofFurtado’s films.“Houve” follows two teenage boys,Chico and Juca, over the course of twosummers at the beach near Porto Alegre,Brazil. Furtado was inspired to write thescript for his son, actor Pedro Furtado(who plays the character of Juca) and Pedro’sfellow classmates in drama school.“For class projects, Pedro and hisfriends would do renditions of WoodyAllen films and other scripts with adultcharacters,” he said. “It was so strange tosee...
...this is Pecci’s fi rstever directorial role. “It is hard to directyourself,” Pecci says, adding that his inexperiencemade relying on his co-directorscrucial.“We worked more on instinct than adirector would and were more analyticthan an actor would be,” Renaud says.The trio rarely had to call on a fourthset of eyes during rehearsals, in part dueto the actors’ openness to one another’ssuggestions—what Renaud calls gettingto know people’s rhythms.“If someone wants...
...role, but there is also a historyof identification that people have withhim which also makes him a star, makeshim pop,” Sachs said in an interviewwith The Crimson, at which Cooper wasalso present. Cooper remained reservedthroughout the interview, belying his statusas one of the best character-actors inHollywood.In fact, Sachs believes that Cooper’sinvolvement is the primary reason for thesuccess of “Married Life.” “We built thecast around Chris,” Sachs said. “He is theheart of the film. People have empathy forhim...
...center of this other Africa is Precious, "traditionally built," beautiful, independent and wise - the incarnation of a self-assured continent. But Minghella couldn't find her. "Over eight months, I went three times around a lap of England, the U.S. and Africa looking for an actor to play Precious," he says. "We workshopped it with eight or nine people, some very big stars. I basically gave up." Finally, while trawling YouTube two months before shooting was due to start, Minghella came across a poetry performance by Grammy Award?winning R&B singer Jill Scott, and "saw something...