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...deleted scenes, Industrial Light and Magic—the team responsible for all of Lucas’ special effects—resurrected half-finished scenes and completed them especially for the DVD version. The “behind the scenes” documentary is fairly disappointing, comprised of bland behind the scenes footage and painfully earnest testimonials; thankfully, Ewan MacGregor breaks up the monotony by gushing over his chance to become Obi-Wan Kenobi. A 12-part documentary originally featured on the web works with mini “featurettes” concerning costumes, fight sequences and design to fashion...
Roderick MacFarquhar, government department chair, says he would be worried the department was becoming too bland if there was not a diversity of opinion between professors. Similar feelings pervade the history department. “We’ve been fortunate, and my sense is that this is true of history departments across the U.S., that although there are very wide differences of approach and methodology and even definition of what history is and can be that these arguments have been debated in friendly and collegial fashion,” says Blackburn. “I think...
Other character portrayals in the outback were similarly inaccurate. Nick gossips that although “Elizabeth came off as everybody’s sweetheart, she really got on a lot of people’s nerves.” Nick adds that Stuff model Amber who seemed bland and uncontroversial was just as bland in real life. “Some people tried to use the camera as an opportunity to change their lives, once they returned. I think that Jeff, Keith and Jerri were the big camera hogs, and though the show wasn’t always nice...
...Elizabeth L. Bland...
...fair, when it comes to the Middle Eastern quagmire, absolute objectivity may be too much to ask. But some semblance of balance in a professor’s presentation is not. Bland-centrists do not offset the rants of anti-Israel activists so zealous (and paranoid?) they fear the interference...