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...time I was very small," Carter confesses. "Most of the major characters came to me almost full blown 20 years ago." He tapped out Emperor late at night, working from 10 to 2 so as not to steal time from his teaching. The law has made him a verbal perfectionist, even in conversation: every other sentence starts with "Let me clarify that by saying...
...even a perfectionist--especially a perfectionist, maybe--has his dark side. The Emperor of Ocean Park begins with a corpse: Oliver Garland, a prominent black judge, is found dead of a heart attack at his desk. At the height of his career Garland was up for the Supreme Court, but his bid was scuttled by rumors of underworld ties, leaving him angry and embittered--he's the Clarence Thomas who might have been. Garland's son Talcott is a moody, middle-aged law professor saddled with a flagging career and a failing marriage. Growing up in the shadow...
...Almost half an hour of the movie takes place in boxing rings. Mann, a famous perfectionist, has meticulously restaged the actual fights, and Smith goes toe to toe with real fighters. Smith says the knockdown of Foreman (boxer Charles Shufford) was the most "grueling" sequence: "We did it over five days. Michael wanted everything, the angle of the bend in my wrist and the angle of my ankle and toe, to be perfect...
...misstep can be fatal in the fast-moving computer business. And Jobs, a perfectionist when he settles on a project, tends to get his ideas from his gut rather than, say, focus groups. Some analysts argue that Apple should abandon innovation in favor of building a cheaper box; a $500 iMac would fit the bill. Others say the company should have pursued the post-PC dream and started turning out Internet appliances, tablet PCs or personal digital assistants, as competitors have done. Instead, Jobs' gut tells him that the PC isn't dead at all. It tells him, in fact...
...think I got less perfectionist in the past,” Monti said. “I was like, ‘I’m a point guard, that’s not my job.’ But I’ve got a little more liberal and that’s helped opening up the posts...