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...spine because it happened when the age of nuclear terror seemed over. Now the specter is back. Which country will show off its atomic prowess next? Pakistan is certainly tempted. Is another frightening, nation-wrecking arms race brewing? Will we ever devise effective ways to control the nuclear beast...
...Burr as an American reporter)--would sooner or later be remade. "For me, it was always very simple," says Emmerich. "Godzilla was one of the last concepts of the '50s that had never been done in modern form--that idea of the giant monster as in Tarantula or The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms. Why not do them again?" But, he says, "we were really concerned about the cheese factor...
...Godzillic roar, pitched higher than a foghorn but just as resonant, sort of like a herd of elephants on methamphetamines. And that's by default. A whole audio team was given the task of duplicating the sound but couldn't. And so Devlin and Emmerich simply picked up the beast's original "yell" from Toho's sound library...
...action." But, says Sissela Bok, an ethicist at Harvard: "That just shows that the lines between news and entertainment have become very blurred." Former TV news producer Derwin Johnson, a professor at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, is appalled. "It's a classic case of technology running the beast instead of a clear editorial process. I don't think there was any reason to go live with this...
...when they decided that their first animated feature, The Prince of Egypt, would be a retelling of the story of Moses. "You can't deal with this like some trivial fairy tale," Geffen admonished Katzenberg, who was chairman of the Disney studio during the making of Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin and Lion King. Prince of Egypt, which will open Dec. 18, has to entertain, but it must also have a grandeur befitting its subject matter...