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...creates limitations. I like digital and there are certain films that I could only make that way, like Ten, but I won't limit myself to it. TIME: Ten features a very articulate child. Why are children central to so many of your films? Kiarostami: I remember my own childhood very clearly and can conjure it up very easily. I love the child's perspective and attitude - that mix of innocence and opportunism. Children have more capacity for living and are more powerful than adults in terms of their instinct for survival...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Director's Cut | 10/6/2002 | See Source »

Lifetime Television has begun production of an original movie about the life of Elizabeth A. Murray ’04-’05, who gained national attention as she overcame a childhood on the streets to enter Harvard two years...

Author: By Hana R. Alberts, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: From Homeless to Harvard, and Now Hollywood | 10/4/2002 | See Source »

Born in the Bronx to two drug-addicted parents, Murray recounts a childhood filled with hunger, welfare checks and cocaine dealing...

Author: By Hana R. Alberts, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: From Homeless to Harvard, and Now Hollywood | 10/4/2002 | See Source »

...half Chinese, half Jewish. We also meet black English Jews and an African-American Buddhist.) But Alex has a more pressing concern: finding Kitty Alexander, a reclusive, aging film star in New York City, whose rarely seen signature, the white whale of celebrity ephemera, he has pursued since childhood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: A Frenzy of Renown | 9/30/2002 | See Source »

...grandson Jacob actually founds the nation of Israel, Muslims regard him as one of the four most important prophets. So pure is his submission to the One God that Muhammad later says his own message is but a restoration of Abrahamic faith. The Koran includes scenes from Abraham's childhood in which he chides his father for believing in idols and survives, Daniel-like, in a fiery furnace to which he is condemned for his fealty to Allah. And in the Koranic version of Abraham's ultimate test, Abraham tells his son of God's command, and the boy replies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Legacy of Abraham | 9/30/2002 | See Source »

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