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...parting of the Red Sea--a sequence that is taking an estimated 300,000 man- and computer-hours to complete. The overall visual style is inspired by the epic filmmaking of director David Lean (Lawrence of Arabia), the ethereal biblical illustrations of 19th century French artist Gustave Dore and the paintings of Impressionist Claude Monet, which use contrasting strokes of color to create a sense of light and space. "We want the audience to respond to our film the way we respond to fine art, not to a comic book," says art director Kathy Altieri. None of this comes cheap...
...Jennifer Dore, 20, Damaso's volunteer tutor, has her eye on him. She'll let him have his fun for a few more minutes. But there is no way Damaso will dodge his homework. Dore, a sophomore communications major at Villanova University, which is half an hour and a billion miles away in the wealthy Main Line, travels to inner-city Philadelphia once a week with seven of her classmates. When their van pulls up to the three-story row house that is headquarters for the Norris Square Neighborhood Project, kids storm out to hug the visitors...
...than a feel-good festival, she says, if it doesn't lead to a strategy for better schools and jobs. Steady work is scarce in the industrial ruins, enrollment at six area schools shows a 95% poverty rate, and two-thirds of the students don't graduate. Villanova's Dore grew up in suburban Philadelphia watching her peers waste opportunities. Here, she says, in a neighborhood 78% Latino and 11% black, kids are hungry for any advantage...
...football game has broken up now, and Dore has finally harnessed Damaso, who says he's behind one year "because I flunked." She sits him down in the library at the project house, waits for him to stop fidgeting, and patiently helps him count coins and make sentences out of his vocabulary words. "Look at him," she says, holding her hand up for a smiling Damaso to slap after he solves an arithmetic problem. "The kid is a math genius...
...store over the next couple of days unless Arafat, currently traveling in Sri Lanka, directly forbids the bombings from taking place. But Arafat is not in an accomodating mood. "He can't tell me what to do," he snapped, scoffing at an exortation by foreign policy advisor Dore Gold that he return to Israel to deal with Palestinian extremists. While Arafat was staying out of sight, Palestinian police in Hebron formed a human chain Monday to separate Israeli troops from stone-throwing protestors, even as their counterparts in Bethelem stood idly by as 200 Palestinians battled with Israeli soldiers armed...