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...Industrial Light & Magic, relocated in San Rafael, Calif., just north of San Francisco, and became a permanent operation. ILM devised the special effects not just for Lucas' three Star Wars epics, but for such Steven Spielberg hits as E.T., Poltergeist and Raiders of the Lost Ark. Now ILM's handiwork seems to be everywhere. The company created the effects for six of last year's releases, among them Cocoon (for which ILM technicians won their seventh visual-effects Oscar), Back to the Future, Young Sherlock Holmes and Explorers. And that does not count smaller jobs on films like...
...fantastically unlovely gargoyles are the handiwork of Peter Fluck and Roger Law, who trace their roots back to the caricatures of the 18th century. For most of their careers the pair drew spiffing images of political figures for publications ranging from Britain's scurrilous Private Eye to the New York Times. These days, working in a converted banana warehouse along the London docks, the international lampooners produce what might best be described as the Muppets seen through Hogarth's eyes...
Borrowing thematically and stylistically from Woody Allen's handiwork, Jaglom brings us a character that moralizes directly through the screen at the audience, one time at the beginning and then finally at the movie's end. We are also deluged with a variety of characters who keep searching for that elusive source of happiness they think is somewhere they...
...assuming its provisions are actually followed. No longer will legislators be able to view their primary role as dispensers of Government largesse. From now on, the overriding business of Congress becomes the politically unrewarding task of slashing, and in some cases abolishing, the legislative handiwork of the past three decades...
...Rohatyn worked with ITT Chief Executive Harold Geneen, who built the company into one of the first powerful conglomerates and the ninth-largest industrial firm in the U.S. at the time. The ITT-Rohatyn deals included Continental Baking, maker of Hostess cakes, and Avis. In recent years Rohatyn's handiwork could be found in the Allied-Signal merger and the acquisition of Electronic Data Systems by General Motors. "Felix the Fixer" they called him on Wall Street...