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...Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (even if it does portray Santa Claus early on as a grouchy bigot) can raise as many childhood memories of the holiday as tinsel and peppermint. And so we buy the DVDs for our kids, ensuring another generation of royalties for the stop-motion animation team of Arthur Rankin Jr. and Jules Bass...
...International oddities: the Iranian-French cartoon bio-pic Persepolis was nominated for Foreign Film but not Animated Feature. And of the five finalists in the foreign-language category, three have already been ruled ineligible for the Motion Picture Academy?s foreign film Oscar: The Diving Bell (because its director is American), The Kite Runner (Swiss-American director) and Ang Lee's sexy Lust, Caution (not made in Taiwan...
...scale models of Tokyo just right, Tsuburaya surveyed the city from rooftop elevations (on one occasion, when he was overheard talking with a colleague about how exactly they planned to destroy the neighborhood, the two were detained by security guards). Instead of filming a puppet of Godzilla in stop-motion, as O'Brien had done for King Kong, Tsuburaya put an actor in a rubber suit and ran the camera at high speed, making Godzilla's movements seem appropriately ponderous when played back. The suit, however, weighed 220 lbs. (100 kg), and the actor inside it lost...
...daughter continue to live their lives “on a seesaw in motion,” she says, sitting in the Science Center with her daughter...
...does not recognize the legitimacy of the U.S. government. (Moorish Science Temple leaders have since disavowed any links to the men.) On March 16, 2006, the men were recorded by the FBI vowing to be Islamic soldiers and to act at the direction of al-Qaeda, according to a motion filed by the government, which played the tape twice during the trial...