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...major financial backer, convinced actor and writer George H. Plimpton ’48 to narrate it, and had sold it to the network TBS, which soon aired it.“That was my calling card,” he says. “I came out to LA and got hired as the assistant to a guy at one of the studios who basically wanted a Harvard guy buying his coffee and buying papayas and getting the windows cleaned on his car and buying organic dog food for his dog.“It was the antithesis...
...admit, my family connections helped. Ron Howard became my first client. He had moved to LA for a while, and he needed a chef for a year. It was great. He has four kids, and I was having fun and they were wonderful to work...
...film is written by Luc Besson, the darkly innovative--sometimes too much so--director of films like La Femme Nikita, and directed by longtime cameraman Pierre Morel. Raffaelli and Belle are veteran stuntmen, and their scenes are overcranked--150 frames a second instead of the usual 24--with the pace then slowed down in postproduction to achieve an extraordinarily graceful effect. When they fight, which is often, the editing is superb, with the cuts landing precisely on action and reaction. It's amazing how these simple devices, used intermittently in other films, energize District B13. The film never pauses...
...leftist surge in Latin American politics. It has also put Morales at odds with the U.S., which he is scheduled to visit in June. Morales, 46, talked with TIME's Tim Padgett and Jean Friedman-Rudovsky last week at the presidential palace in the Bolivian capital of La...
TIME Bolivia receives more than $100 million annually in economic aid from the U.S. Can and should relations be improved between La Paz and Washington...