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...toxic anecdotes: Walt Disney Studios under the hard hand of then-chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg was known as Mouschwitz or Duckau. "Dunne's account sometimes reads like a nonfiction sequel to his satiric 1994 Hollywood novel, Playland," note's TIME's R.Z. Sheppard. "But without fiction's remove and craft this chronicle often seems like a hasty downloading of shoptalk and tele-shmoozing. It may be too much to expect 27 rewrites, but one more scroll through the laptop might have tightened things up. Beyond this quibble, however, 'Monster' contains more than enough cautionary experience to be a required text...
...recipient of the Levenson Award for Undergraduate Teaching, Gewanter taught Expository Writing 20: "The Craft of Stories" last semester and Expos 11: "Literary Transformations" last year...
...toxic anecdotes: Walt Disney Studios under the hard hand of then-chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg was known as Mouschwitz or Duckau. "Dunne's account sometimes reads like a nonfiction sequel to his satiric 1994 Hollywood novel, Playland," note's TIME's R.Z. Sheppard. "But without fiction's remove and craft this chronicle often seems like a hasty downloading of shoptalk and tele-shmoozing. It may be too much to expect 27 rewrites, but one more scroll through the laptop might have tightened things up. Beyond this quibble, however, 'Monster' contains more than enough cautionary experience to be a required text...
Lucas has always insisted he is a filmmaker first and foremost. And he does get passionate when talking about his craft, and his coming return to the director's chair for the first prequel (now that new film technology has made the job less onerous). "There was a cinematic innovation in the first Star Wars film that made people say, 'Gee, I'd never seen that before,'" he says. "I have the opportunity to do that again with the prequels. The fun part for me is to say, 'You want me to come back and do that...
...fused politics and sport.' Ali?s conversion to the Black Muslims tested white America's fondness for him. His refusal to serve in the Army made him the Vietnam War?s most famous conscientious objector and deprived him of work for three years at the peak of his craft. Then Ali returned to lose the heavyweight belt to Joe Frazier. Leon Gast's documentary details the next step in Ali's career: Act III of a great and poignant pageant. This was the Rumble in the Jungle, the 1974 fight with George Foreman in Zaire. "Ali's charisma makes...