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...billion worldwide take) was Goblet's plot. "Book No. 4 seemed to me to have terrific potential," says Newell. "It's very, very dark and sort of a classic thriller." To prepare for the film, the director "began obsessively watching the great paranoid thrillers like Three Days of the Condor and All the President...
...California condor, the Maryland darter, the Florida panther and other animals struggling to survive are not the only endangered species. Largely because of man's encroachment, many, perhaps dozens of American plant species are disappearing each year. Indeed, botanists estimate that some 3,000 of the 22,000 species of higher plants native to the U.S. may be facing extinction. Around the world, as many as 40,000 plant species are in trouble...
...enough for The Interpreter. The thriller pieces feel assembled rather than organic: this from The Manchurian Candidate, that from Pollack's own Three Days of the Condor, the rest from the Robert Ludlum oeuvre. And the issue of whether a genocidal dictator will be killed doesn't have much emotional weight. Nor does the moral question--Can a person do good by killing a bad man?--mean a lot when a star is pointing a gun at a defenseless supporting player...
...numbers of species are unlikely to be useful to humans. They may be interesting for scientists and pleasing to look at, but the pig-tailed bandicoots of the world are not often missed. That unconcern may be for the best. Spending millions of dollars to save, say, the California condor can divert precious resources away from saving entire ecosystems with scores or even hundreds of species. The sad truth is that the natural world cannot be preserved in its current state. Worrying about single species obscures the larger challenge of preserving entire ecosystems...
...part of an observant Jewish family. As a child with dyslexia, Patinkin first discovered theater in a nearby youth center. Though initially “dragged there by this huge football player,” Patinkin fondly remembers the production of Carousel, as well as its director, Bob Condor. Patinkin especially remembers Condor saying, “What is this play about? I think it’s about, if you love someone, tell them.” Patinkin commented, “I remember thinking, ‘That’s a pretty hip idea...