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...engineering student when a chance meeting with a movie producer - during a 1919 teahouse brawl - led to a job as a camera operator. Tsuburaya loved the work, perfecting new techniques, including the deployment of Japan's first camera crane. In 1933 he saw American special-effects pioneer Willis O'Brien's newly released King Kong. "I thought to myself, 'I will someday make a monster movie like that,'" Tsuburaya said years later. First, however, came the horror story of World War II, which he spent laboring on propaganda films. His scale-model re-enactment of the 1941 Pearl Harbor bombing...
Books have more than just sentimental value to some sellers. Harvard students are probably unaccustomed to seeing Frenchie (no last name given) and her partner Ken O’Brien, the formerly homeless owners of the movable bookstand outside of J. August Co. on Mass. Ave., without their faithful cat and dog—but they’re inside now, and they won’t be coming back out. “We got an apartment just by selling books without any Section 8 government help, or anything to do with that,” Frenchie said...
...very strange that comedians suchas Jay Leno, Dave Letterman and Conan O'Brien are "forced" to air reruns during the TV- and movie-writers strike [Nov. 19]. Didn't they get their start in show biz by writing their own material? I guess they're just too rich now--or too blas--to go back to their roots. Seems a shame, doesn...
Stephen Colbert is dead. Not the man, the legend. Suddenly, our favorite right-wing nutjob is just an expensive suit and a raised eyebrow. He perished Nov. 5, along with Jon Stewart, Jay Leno, David Letterman, Conan O’Brien, Craig Ferguson, and the entire cast of Saturday Night Live...
...would seem the least likely to reverse course and go back on the air. Yet Leno also seems more closely tied to his scripted material and might be less able to smoothly transition into an unscripted show than hosts who are more natural ad-libbers, like Letterman and O'Brien...