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...After the Wedding, Denmark Days of Glory, Algeria The Lives of Others, Germany Pan's Labyrinth, Mexico Water, Canada (but really India...
...Others was cited: partly because it's a smartly pensive spy thriller, partly because this means that some Generation Why cutie will have to stand on the Kodak Theatre stage and try to enunciate the director's name: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck. (Paging Gov. Schwarzenegger?) But I chose Pan's Labyrinth as my film of the year, so I have to go with that...
...list of films submitted by their home countries. A non-English-language film from the U.S., like Iwo Jima and Mel Gibson's Mayan massacre movie Apocalypto (also a Globe nominee), is eligible only for Best Picture. The other Globe runners-up - The Lives of Others from Germany, Pan's Labyrinth from Mexico and Volver from Spain - would all be honorable choices for the foreign Oscar...
...animator who created the canine cartoon sleuth Scooby-Doo; in Los Angeles. Interned with his family in California during World War II, Takamoto first learned illustration from his fellow detainees. After the war, he apprenticed at Walt Disney Studios, where he worked on films that included Cinderella and Peter Pan. In 1961 he joined Hanna-Barbera, where he designed characters for Scooby-Doo (whose name Takamoto took from a scat line in the Frank Sinatra song Strangers in the Night) as well as for TV cartoons, including The Flintstones and The Jetsons...
Winning influential fans has also been crucial to Bionade's success. Sarah Wiener, one of Berlin's top chefs, serves the drink in all three of her pan-European restaurants. "It's a great idea. The timing was right," she says. In 2002-03, Bionade sold 2 million bottles. By 2006, it was available in Switzerland, Austria and the Benelux countries, and sold 70 million. Leipold, now 69, is relieved the company's faith in its product is paying off. "We were just too early," he says...