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...even cartoonists are rolling the dice: this fall NBC launches Father of the Pride, a computer-animated series from the makers of Shrek, about a family of lions in Siegfried & Roy's Mirage Resort revue. (Fortunately for NBC, it was, ahem, a tiger that severely mauled Roy Horn last fall...
...said, 'Tom, I don't want to horn in on your party, but is there any room for me to direct this thing?'" STEVEN SPIELBERG, film director, on what it was like to work with Tom Hanks, star of Spielberg's new movie, The Terminal...
After illusionist Roy Horn was mauled by one of his own performing tigers on a Las Vegas stage last October, grieving fans held vigils outside the hospital where the critically injured showman was admitted, and placed mementos at the foot of a Siegfried & Roy statue on the city's Strip. Sixteen time zones away, in a drab industrial building at the far end of a Hong Kong subway line, the shock was felt just as much. Imagi, a fledgling animation company, was in the running to make Father of the Pride, a prime-time comedy cartoon about the private lives...
...Miraculously, Horn survived, and Father of the Pride debuts in the U.S. in August on NBC, which is awarding it the choice time slot vacated by Frasier. That makes Imagi, with its 300 employees, a small example of the kind of business high-cost Hong Kong needs in a big way: knowledge-based companies that don't require cheap inputs or production costs to compete. (Although the city has a world-famous film industry, Japan and South Korea have long been Asia's animation centers; mainland China and India are also on the rise in this field, capitalizing on their...
...well as a great time slot, Father of the Pride has top-name talent-voice-overs will be done by John Goodman, Carl Reiner, and Cheryl Hines of Curb Your Enthusiasm. But it may yet be undermined by Horn's condition. Last month, NBC previewed the show in New York City for advertising executives, playing a video greeting from Horn, his first public appearance since the mauling. The effects of his attack, and a stroke he suffered after it, were apparent, says Kristi Argyilan, media director of the advertising firm Hill, Holliday, Connors, Cosmopulos. "They were trying to say, 'Look...