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...celebrates the quiet moments," says Miyazaki's No. 1 American fan, Pixar creative boss John Lasseter. "It's so rare - especially in Hollywood, where everything is bigger, louder, faster and more of it - to be brave enough to let it just quiet down." That's Miyazaki. Rather than being stocked with high-energy slapstick, his films proceed at a dream walker's pace. They're not dialogue-heavy; they're image-buoyant...
...Breslauer, Priest - just before he died - said he was performing the sword fight on a new stage for the first time and slipped on a wet spot. The third death occurred on Aug. 17, when stuntman Anislav Varbanov broke his neck while practicing a tumbling roll at Disney's Hollywood Studios for a scene in a 20-year-old show based on stunts from the movie Raiders of the Lost Ark. Maria Somma, spokeswoman for Actors' Equity, said Varbanov had just signed his equity contract the week before his death. (Read about Orlando and its theme parks...
...often serves as an excuse for lofty moral judgments. Only a few bold souls created alternative versions, like the 1963 film It Happened Here, in which Kevin Brownlow and Andrew Mollo imagined a Nazi-occupied Britain. Tarantino's rewrite is more brazen still, with a twist that's pure Hollywood. Hitler will die where? In a movie theater. And who will kill him? Some Jews...
...just possible that Tarantino, having played a trick on history, is also fooling his fans. They think they're in for a Hollywood-style war movie starring Brad Pitt. What they're really getting is the cagiest, craziest, grandest European film of the year...
DIED Though his renovation of the Guggenheim Museum in New York City drew mixed reviews, Modernist architect Charles Gwathmey, 71, counted among his fans Hollywood A listers like Jerry Seinfeld and Steven Spielberg, for whom he designed lavish homes...