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...Lucas and his brilliant team, special effects became the prettiest new tool in the movie paint box. "Star Wars convinced filmmakers that you can do anything bigger and better to enhance the shot," says Jason Barlow, lead CG animator for the effects company RIOT. "Now, with digital technology, real magic can happen." The movie even changed the way films are financed. Notes cultural critic John Seabrook: "Because of its huge box office, it interested Wall Street people who had previously seen Hollywood as small potatoes. The Star Wars numbers brought a new variety of investor and financial manager into movies...
...Winners MAGIC JOHNSON NBA great is nominated to basketball Hall of Fame. Meanwhile, current Laker Jelani McCoy is a lock for the Sepi?s Sandwich Wall of Fame COURTNEY LOVE Mrs. Cobain spared a sanity test in lawsuit filed against her by ex-Nirvana band members. All parties agreed it would be a waste of time MICHAEL EISNER Top mouse sees Disney post $259 million earnings. New theme park attraction, Wall of Fake Breasts, certainly seems to have paid off Losers CHARLES MANSON Killer denied parole for 10th time. We?re surprised: Charles kept his cell tidy, flossed daily...
...Bush was praised widely after 9/11 for delegating the conduct and tempo of the war in Afghanistan to his military advisers and then getting out of the way. The Bush team as if by magic seemed to coalesce in September after months of intramural bickering: Cheney became a behind-the-scenes adviser, Powell finally took over as chief diplomat, and Rumsfeld stopped skirmishing with his generals and led them over the top into battle...
...magic extends from the text of the play to the intimate setting of the Kronauer Space in the basement of Adams House. The scenery starts out simple: a dark screen at center-stage, framed by column-like curtains hanging on either side and more lacy material suspended from the ceiling...
Aiding the communication of the magic are the skilled performances of the actors, particularly GSAS Brett Gamboa (also the production’s director), as the Bohemian King, Polixenes, accused of cuckolding his life long friend Leontes, King of Sicilia...