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...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 of Siegfried & Roy's feline co-stars. "I opened the newspaper and it said Roy was bitten by a tiger," says Francis Kao, founder of the company. Then calls started coming in from DreamWorks SKG, the Hollywood studio that dreamt up the idea. "I started to get nervous," Kao recalls...
...company traces its roots to Boto International, one of the world's largest manufacturers of artificial Christmas trees, which was founded by Kao's father, Michael Kao. The junior Kao joined the firm after graduating from Sacramento State University in California in 1998, and his first job was to produce an animated website for the company. Kao, a longtime fan of cartoons, was fascinated by the animators he met and persuaded his father to set up a cartoon unit. In April 2001, Kao went to a television programming conference in Cannes with six minutes of a cartoon, only half...
...covers two centuries of this circus lineup, as envisioned by 83 artists including Goya, Ensor, Klee, Beckmann, Dix, Picasso, Bonnard, Hopper, Freud, Robert Capa and Diane Arbus. It's a perilous leap from Chardin's delightful The Monkey Painter and Toulouse-Lautrec's bitter yellow La Clownesse Cha-U-Kao to video artist Pierrick Sorin's ad nauseam Pie Fight, but like Paris itself, there is something for just about everyone in this three-ring show. There are few real self-portraits in "The Grand Parade," but the lack should be filled by Moi! Self-Portraits in the 20th Century...
...Taiwan, however, needs fewer martyrs and more heroes. Last Monday, the island was shaken by news that nearly 150 frightened doctors and nurses in Taipei and in the southern city of Kao-hsiung had resigned, at a time when they are needed most. On Friday, the World Health Organization (WHO) removed Hong Kong and Guangdong from its infamous travel-advisory list, confident that these former hot zones had contained the disease. But in Taiwan, the epidemic shows little sign of letting up as the number of SARS cases on the island rose in seven days from...
...Bitter irony alert: Boto later started a profitless digital animation business, run by the son of chairman Kao, Francis Kao. If manufacturing is spun off, the dud animation unit is all shareholders will wind up owning. "What do these guys know about the animation business?" says Webb. "This is not what we invested in." Webb and Mobius are leading a group of independent shareholders to vote down the deal...