Word: goldberg
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...drawing process is exacting, medieval labor, even in an era when computers can paint the backgrounds; an animator will spend a full day on a single second -- 24 drawings -- of character movement. To devise and execute the Genie's production number, A Friend like Me, supervising animator Eric Goldberg (the man in charge of the Genie's scenes) made perhaps 10,000 drawings...
...Goldberg had a giddy challenge with Williams and the Genie. Animator Randy Cartwright faced a daunting one: to create a character, the Magic Carpet, literally out of whole cloth. The Carpet has no head, no voice, and mere tassels for hands and feet. Yet it has a personality that puts most live- action stars to shame. It can mope, strut, cringe. It is a gentleman and a matchmaker. It holds and kisses Jasmine's hand. It makes zigzag stairs of itself at the end of Aladdin's ride with Jasmine and, as she stands on her balcony, coaxes...
Even more impressive than Leguizamo's acting is his writing. He has moved beyond performance art, which even at its best (Whoopi Goldberg, Eric Bogosian, Anna Deavere Smith) tends to be mere journalistic observation of relevant types, and has produced a true play. Each monologue adds depth to a group portrait of a family in pain, the members isolated in their individual differences yet always plausibly connected. Leguizamo turns stereotypes into rounded, real people and brings them under one roof...
...Princeton--Karen Collins, Leigh Goldberg, Kim Simmons; Harvard--Sarah Winters, Francie Walton. A: Princeton--Lisa Rebane, Armory Rowe, Liz Fagan (2): Harvard--Emily Buxton, Sarah Downing. S: Princeton--Melanie Orpen 10; Harvard--Jessica Milhollin...
...York Times best-seller list; with 1.1 million copies in print a month after its publication date, The Way Things Ought to Be is the hottest hard-cover nonfiction title since Iacocca. Then he tries TV, and within a few weeks his late-night harangue is beating Whoopi Goldberg in the ratings and is up there with David Letterman and Arsenio Hall. These days, Rush is so busy that, as he lamented on the radio recently, "I don't even know what century I'm living...