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...Schamus says he alleviated Lee’s practical fears about finding an audience. “[I told Ang] Don’t worry, we will find the audience…just shoot whatever you want,” Schamus said. And Lee did just that. During his mere 8-week, “business-like shoot,” Lee somehow managed to finish on time and under budget. “Ang made his days,” Schamus said. Schamus, however, soon realized the core audience for the film would not be homosexuals...
...isn’t afraid of falling any more. Initially, his Harvard career led him away from the disco and into the ivy-covered walls of The Harvard Crimson, where he scaled the ranks to become Associate Editor of FM, Fifteen Minutes Magazine, as a mere sophomore. This fall, Fee conceived an idea to mate his two interests, dance and FM. Their love child? The Fifteen Minutes Dance Team...
...philosophy, there are plenty of better targets than “Narnia.” Yet simply dismissing the Narnia books as advocates of “a view of life” that is so “hideous and cruel” as to make mere consideration of it repulsive helps no one, and is merely evidence of closed-mindedness and bigotry—bigotry far worse than any of which Lewis is guilty...
...grants each year, ranging from $500,000 to $1 million, to midlevel social entrepreneurs. But when Skoll opened Participant Productions in January 2004 and announced his intention to cure what ails the world through film, even his greatest admirers predicted the billionaire would soon be downsizing to a mere millionaire. In Hollywood there generally isn't much money to be made in doing good. Skoll was undeterred. "I believe that people are basically good and want to do good things, and this was a way to help them do that," he says. "Traditionally, people come to Hollywood for financial reasons...
...brilliance and innovation of the interpretation by director and set designer Burkle triumphs over the occasionally weak acting. The haunting red umbrellas take Ioensco’s rhinoceroses beyond the absurd and into the surreal; the HRDC production transcends a mere illustration of the script and creates a work of art in its own right...