Word: dahling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fully anticipate the wrath of several generations of possessive children when we declare that the new Disney film of James and the Giant Peach is an improvement on Roald Dahl's 1961 backyard fantasy. Director Henry Selick and his team of screenwriters (Karey Kirkpatrick, Jonathan Roberts, Steve Bloom) and technical specialists have given the story balance and emotional heft. Mixing stylized live action with stop-motion animation, they have reconciled the tale's realistic and surreal elements and, in five sprightly Randy Newman tunes, made the story sing...
...their roots with their new film "Fargo," set in Minnesota where they grew up. "Fargo" is also a return to the world of the grisley murder, a genre which owes a lot to the Coens, who have written and directed five films together. Back when Quentin Tarantino and John Dahl were still just film geeks, Joel and Ethan Coen made "Blood Simple," a completely original and seductively seedy neo-noir. The film propelled them into the spotlight, where, for a time, they were "the" cool independant filmmakers. Now, of course, we have lesser directors hosting "Saturday Night Live" and telling...
...theatrical background. His grandparents Boris and Bessie Thomashefsky were stars of the Yiddish theater in New York City, and young Michael grew up in a musical household. Boyhood piano lessons were followed at the University of Southern California by studies with pianist John Crown and composer-conductor Ingolf Dahl, a summer stint as an assistant at the Wagner Festival in Bayreuth in 1966, and an appointment as William Steinberg's assistant at the Boston Symphony Orchestra three years later...
...Dahl also acknowledged that Yale would probably lose applicants, especially to Harvard. She said she had no way yet to gauge the net gain or loss...
Margit A. Dahl, Yale's admissions director, said the school believes that the early-action system has become "one step in a series of badge-collecting...