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...really on the wrong wavelength," says Arnold Professor of Science William H. Bossert '59, a member of the FAS Committee on Information Technology. "Central planing and central administration doesn't work in a university.... I rest having someone tell us what to buy and what...
...trouble of drawing all those millions of cels. The wondrous Babe, with its seamless blend of live footage, mechanical and visual effects and uplifting sentiment, pioneered the idea; 101 Dalmatians (which, of course, remakes one of pure animation's classics) cheerfully expands the territory; and Arnold Schwarzenegger, who has always seemed more of a cartoon character than an actor anyway, may be about to Jingle All the Way to the bank with his variation...
...absence of Turbo Man, a perfectly awful action figure, from available shelves and by Langston's rivalry for the elusive doll with one Myron Larabee (the comedian Sinbad), a bomb-toting mailman who has gone permanently postal. Director Brian Levant envisions their holiday world in cheerily surreal terms, and Arnold's other obstacles include an unaccountably savage reindeer, an army of corrupt Santa Clauses and a motorcycle cop who is a sort of uniformed Wile E. Coyote...
...ending, when Arnold turns into Turbo Man, is preposterous, though perhaps no more so than the uncanny interspecies communication of Dalmatians. But the technical sophistication of these trick-laden films appeals to older kids in a way that classic animation--which bears a kid-stuff taint--often does not. It may be the ultimate merchandising tool. And one we're going to see more...
Cameron, according to a source on the set, is running behind schedule and over budget. It's hardly the first time he's been here--his last film, True Lies with Arnold Schwarzenegger, started out costing $60 million and wound up with a final price tag of well over $100 million. "We're doing spectacle," Cameron says unrepentantly during a brief break from filming. "Spectacle costs money...