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...projects that bring to the screen the most cherished franchises of fantasy novels in the past half-century: J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series. Directors Chris Columbus (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, which opens Nov. 16) and Peter Jackson (The Fellowship of the Ring, due Dec. 19) have been on a sacred, scary quest. Each director must feel like a kid or a Hobbit who's been given a broom or ring with odd powers and told to go save the world. So it's nice to see that...
...production of "Julius Caesar.") The story goes that he was hired when the series was airing a piece on the newly-born Dionne quintuplets - Welles played all five babies. He impersonated kings and plutocrats, all the newsmakers of the period. And one new newsmaker. As he recalled for Peter Bogdanovich in "This Is Orson Welles," a kind of oral memoir: "One day they did as a news item on ?March of Time? the opening of my production of the black ?Macbeth,? and I played myself in it. And that to me was the apotheosis of my career - that...
SUSPENDED. PETER BART, 69, Hollywood influence monger and former producer; from his post as editor of Variety, the entertainment industry's most powerful trade publication. Its owner, Cahners Business Information, said it would investigate charges made in the latest issue of Los Angeles magazine, in which anonymous sources claim that in meetings at Variety, his language was filled with offensive remarks about women, gays and minorities. The magazine quotes him as describing middle-class African Americans as "not very black" and "ghetto blacks" as those who "bury themselves in black-itude." Other charges: that he manufactured anonymous quotes, kept staff...
...Bush-Rumsfeld Pentagon triangle: Currently vice chairman. Former head of the Air Force's space command. Former commander of the Pacific Air Forces. And no less importantly (especially in the personal-chemistry Bush Administration), the Kansas City native is by all accounts a pretty likable guy. Marine Gen. Peter Pace, who was also in Crawford with Bush and Rumsfeld for the announcement, will be the new vice chairman...
...want to find Peter Vitousek in his lab, the first thing you have to do is go to Hawaii. After that, it gets tricky, because Vitousek's lab isn't in the state--it is the state. The Stanford University ecologist has devoted his career to studying the earth's metabolism and life cycles, zeroing in on how the intricate machinery of its forests is altered by people and the introduction of new plants and animals. "Peter is a real visionary," says marine ecologist Jane Lubchenco of Oregon State University. "It's unusual to have someone who is simultaneously interested...