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...year's Ratatouille. To sell the project, Stanton had only his faith in the idea, and the collaboration of sound-design guru Ben Burtt, who would create WALL?E's "voice" and most of the film's other noises. But as Stanton recalls, "No one questioned this. They all knew it would work...
...result of acting." He has returned the favor; August provides 13 juicy roles for the members of Steppenwolf, and the company is currently rehearsing Letts' next play, Superior Donuts. It's a lighter, less grandiose work, he says. "I started it before August was performed. But I knew August was really big, and I wanted a smaller gesture." Now that August: Osage County has thrust him into the very front ranks of American dramatists, however, nothing from Tracy Letts can be considered small again...
...darkest, when 11 Israeli athletes perished in a terrorist attack at the 1972 Munich Olympics. As he reported the story over 16 uncertain hours, McKay was calm, capable and compassionate--and thinking of the parents of Israeli weight-lifter David Berger, an American who had immigrated to Israel. "I knew," he said, "that I would be the one to tell them if their son was alive or dead." When that terrible moment came, McKay looked into the camera. "My father used to say our greatest hopes and our worst fears are seldom realized," he said softly. Then, "They...
...outré plot twists--from money squabbles to incest--are invented, he says. Still, the shocking portrait of a pill-popping, mentally unstable, almost pathologically vicious matriarch (played by Deanna Dunagan) was close enough to reality that he had qualms about showing the play to his mother. "I knew it would be difficult for her to read," he says. "But her response was, 'I think you've been very kind to my mother...
There were career frustrations too. The acting work in L.A. was spotty and hardly satisfying. "You get a Seinfeld episode, and people still to this day think that's a big deal," he says. "'You were on the Festivus episode.' That was four days out of my life!" He knew it was time to leave when he was kicking himself for losing out on a regular role in V.I.P., the Pamela Anderson action series. He drove to Chicago to appear in a Steppenwolf production of Glengarry Glen Ross and decided to stay...