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...estate and often some indication of quality, such as "good" and "very, very good." And who is to say that wines like these cannot be made again someday, asks Patrick McGovern, a molecular archaeologist at the University of Pennsylvania Museum, including perhaps the mysterious elixir that supposedly drove Cleopatra mad...
...refusal to accept the conventional boundaries of his field that encouraged Masao Maruyama, founder and president of Mad House animation studio, to choose him to direct Perfect Blue, a paranoid psycho-thriller about a teen idol dragged through the sleazier realms of Japanese pop culture. The film turned out to be Kon's breakthrough. Until then, he had been making slow but steady progress through the industry, working his way up from being an assistant manga artist to drawing his own manga to directing occasional episodes of animated TV shows. One of these episodes caught Maruyama's eye. "I needed...
...kind of Twin Peaks for Japanese animation, bringing Kon's work to a wider audience and raising the standards of prime-time TV in the process. "We're going to let him keep doing what he wants, and I think the audiences will eventually come to him," says Mad House president Maruyama. That may finally be about to happen. Millennium Actress and Tokyo Godfathers made the release-date cutoff for this season's Oscars, and industry insiders are whispering that both films might be top contenders. That would bring Kon much deserved recognition and show that his brand of animation...
...Well, he hasn’t lost very much,” Edwards says matter-of-factly. “So I really haven’t been around him that often when he loses, but he’s never gotten mad that I’ve ever seen...
...there was ever a time to get mad, it was this year’s Dartmouth game...