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...Kilmer, in black sweats and no shoes, sits in a darkened sound studio. On the other side of the glass, Jeffrey Katzenberg watches nervously, clutching a toy red-and-yellow football. Today Kilmer is recording the voice of Moses, and Katzenberg is unflaggingly attentive as the famously temperamental actor dubs dialogue for the most personal high-stakes film that Katzenberg--former chairman of the Disney studio and a founder of DreamWorks SKG--has ever been involved in making, the eagerly anticipated animated epic The Prince of Egypt. Kilmer is not in the upbeat mood that the scene requires. He started...
...Katzenberg repeats. "I'm trying to enjoy myself," Kilmer answers moodily. The toys that Katzenberg brought to amuse the actor are not working. "You may want to stand up and get in the physical thing of it," Katzenberg says to Kilmer. "He ain't going to stand up," someone in the booth observes. Things go downhill from there, in a session that is something of a metaphor for the gargantuan struggle to make The Prince of Egypt...
...track that was an eerily effective chorus of every character in the film, with the dominant voice morphing from man to woman to child. But consultant Schwartz-Getzug vetoed that approach, saying some people would be offended if the voice of God sounded--even momentarily--like a woman's. Kilmer ended up supplying the voice...
...MOVIE] THE PRINCE OF EGYPT [ANIMATORS] 75 [WEIRDEST CASTING] Val Kilmer as Moses [FAST-FOOD TIE-INS] None. Said publicist: "What are we going to do, the Moses Big Mac?" [PROTESTS SPARKED] Muslims object to the depiction of prophets [GROWNUPS' BONUS] Exodus is a children's story...
...real life," and in 1910 poetry was subsisting, for the most part, on vague appeals to nature and to God. Though from 1897 on, Edwin Arlington Robinson had been writing his grim, intelligent poetry of American failures (Miniver Cheevy among them), he was not a popular American poet: Joyce Kilmer and Edgar Guest were the poets who sold...