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...revision passed overwhelmingly. "I know Southern Baptists don't believe that," Currie fumed. "Baptists believe in a personal relationship with a living God. This bunch has the same spirit as the Pharisees. They try to put God in a box." Currie went away mad. He may not be the last...
...Shaft producer Scott Rudin, who recommended Wright when John Leguizamo dropped out of the role. "We did a read-through, and I said, 'Cook up some more scenes for this guy,'" says Rudin. "It's such a witty performance. Peoples is completely despicable but never understands why people are mad at him. He's like a really intelligent little...
...dumped his agent, Pat Kavanagh, thereby infuriating her husband, the author Julian Barnes, who was until that moment one of Amis' closest friends. Amis underwent a long bout of dental reconstruction, prompting reporters to observe, in print, that he was not only a failed husband and father and money-mad but vain as well. And then the other famous Amis, his father Kingsley, died in 1995, the sole misfortune during this period that was not blamed, at least not publicly, on Martin...
...while Hollywood goes mad for techno tricks, directors Nick Park and Peter Lord and their team at Aardman Studios of Bristol, England, are still crafting films by hand. Chicken Run is one of the few features made in the sublimely masochistic form of animation known as stop motion, in which plasticine puppets on miniature film sets must be adjusted 24 times for every second of film. A live-action feature has perhaps 500 shots; this 82-min. movie has 118,080. "The detail is astonishing," says Lord, still in awe of his colleagues' industry 28 years after co-founding...
...they're also really, really mad that cast members had the unmitigated gall to catch fish (yes, fish!) in the waters surrounding their island prison...