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...John Canemaker, a leading historian of the form. "Why not do an animated Sweeney Todd? Or head in a totally different direction? Very few animated features have tried something original and unique, often with mixed results: the 1954 version of Animal Farm, the Beatles' Yellow Submarine, the X-rated Fritz the Cat. But most studios will probably try emulating Disney's success...
Crossover is nothing new. The Viennese violinist Fritz Kreisler recorded Irving Berlin tunes in 1927, around the same time that a Tin Pan Alley refugee named George Gershwin sent wigs flying with such concert scores as An American in Paris. What has changed is that today's listeners, raised in an era of shrinking arts education, are showing less interest in the classical standards. Meanwhile, younger classical performers, themselves suckled on pop, want to play it, not only to make big bucks but also because they like it. When Jean-Yves Thibaudet, famous for his interpretations of Ravel and Rachmaninoff...
...Hawaii and perhaps the southern United States." The slippery villains, who now inhabit Guam at the rate of 2,000 to 3,000 snakes per acre, are "everywhere," an excited Babbitt told a Senate budget hearing. They are wiping out native plant species, putting power lines on the fritz and infiltrating sewer systems. The Clinton Administration?s solution? One million dollars for fresh research. Senators remain skeptical. Instead of big bucks for scientific dithering, Senator Frank Murkowski, an Alaska Republican who heads the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, suggests offering children a $1 bounty for each snake they...
...stands of Olympic Stadium was an 81-year-old man who, by his own admission, was "bawling like a baby." Fritz Pollard had been on the '36 Olympic team with Jesse Owens, winning the bronze in the 110-m hurdles, and as he watched Johnson, he thought, "That kid has got Jesse's spirit...
...house audiences. In Sweden, Mauritz Stiller and Victor Sjostrom made sweeping dramas of man in tune with or enslaved by nature. Denmark's Carl Dreyer shot his heroically austere The Passion of Joan of Arc in France. The Germans boasted Ernst Lubitsch's puckish historical sagas and Fritz Lang's grand parables. Lang's Siegfried had a fire-breathing dragon, a contraption 50 ft. long operated by eight men; his gigantic, prophetic Metropolis nearly bankrupted its backers...