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...writer-director Craig Brewer, 33, the film's July 13 release is the culmination of a five-year odyssey of slammed doors, we'll-call-yous and try-it-our-ways. Cast a rap star in the lead role, not a journeyman actor with zero marquee wattage. Make it in Los Angeles, not in your hometown. And, the Hollywood whisper went, could you please not be a white guy? Taylor Hackford had run up against similar prejudices in the 15 years it took him to make Ray. As Brewer recalls, "I'm sitting there sweating bullets, thinking...
...only a quarter as bright as it was near Saturn, scientists expect Voyager's cameras (as well as its other instruments) to reveal considerably more detail as the spacecraft draws closer to Uranus and finally swoops to within 66,000 miles of its surface on Jan. 24. Voyager's odyssey will not end there. Accelerated to 45,000 m.p.h. and rerouted by Uranian gravity, it will soar still farther away from the sun, encounter Neptune in 1989, then head out of the solar system on an endless journey to the stars...
Halberstam at this time began to write his first books— “The Making of a Quagmire” about Vietnam and “The Unfinished Odyssey of Robert Kennedy” about fractious domestic politics—often waking up early in the morning to write before he had to go to work...
...Will Wright, creator of Sim City and The Sims, the best-selling PC game of all time. Wright's evolution game, Spore, has been in the works for three years already (and has two more to go). It was inspired in part by his favorite movie, 2001: A Space Odyssey--which he saw growing up in Atlanta at the age of 8--and will, he hopes, have a similar kind of effect on his audience: "I want them to emerge with a computer-induced drug epiphany about the nature of space and time...
Partially inspired by the political satire “2004: An Election Year Odyssey,” in which he had acted, Singh started working on the script for “Abu Ghraib” in November. It is loosely focused on the story of Joseph Darby, the U.S. reservist military police officer in Iraq who turned over the now-infamous CD containing the photos of soldiers abusing inmates in the prison...