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...signing autographs for fans on race days. NASCAR may need to get even cozier with them. As NASCAR raced to the top of the American sporting scene, it might have taken its base a bit for granted. "We need to engage the fans with more passion," says driver Jeff Burton, a 17-year Sprint Cup veteran. "We need to be creative, to come up with better ideas." One thought officials are kicking around right now: sending drivers to local markets weeks, even months, before race day to make appearances and create buzz. "Just because we did it a certain...
...Brien's King Kong; the mythical creatures molded and manipulated by Ray Harryhausen in pictures like Jason and the Argonauts and Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger; those endearing English eccentrics in Nick Park's Chicken Run and the Wallace and Gromit shorts; the sprightly ghouls of Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas...
...Burton's" was actually Henry Selick's; he directed the film under Burton's supervision. Selick next directed James and the Giant Peach, which managed to improve on the Roald Dahl children's book, and Monkeybone, a pretty frantic mix of live-action and animation. All these films owe less to the chipper confections of Disney, Pixar and DreamWorks than to Euro-cartoonery like The Triplets of Belleville and the work of Czech animator Jiri Trnka...
...kind of like going from an Xbox to an Atari.' BILL BURTON, White House spokesman, on his new office, where external e-mail log-ins and social websites are prohibited...
...connect them to the world. Several names were misspelled on the signs that identified staff desks. It took the press office until about 10 a.m. on Wednesday to figure out how to send reporters an official White House press release. "That's great news," said deputy press secretary Bill Burton, when a reporter announced that the first e-mail had been received. "Ready...