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...make it look raw-edged." But they are also digging for buried treasure. On Babe, "the director often just turned on the camera and hoped to dear God he got something that matched," says Friedkin, who cut the film with Marcus D'Arcy. "There's one shot where the pig is backing down the gangplank and falls off. That was obviously a blown take. But in the cutting room, Marcus saw that it took on an extra dimension. He put it in, and it's one of the funniest bits in the film...
Okay, so this is the first year of the Crimson Oscar preview, and what happens? A small Australian film about a pig, and a small Italian film about a letter carrier are nominated for best picture. Most of the nominations are for non-mainstream films. Several high-profile films did not receive major nominations (e.g., "Get Shorty," "The American President;" except for best-female actor nominations, "Casino" and "Bridges of Madison County" were ignored). All five director and all ten supporting-actor/female actor candidates are first-time nominees. In recent years, the Academy Awards have been dominated...
...corporate farms has sharply slowed their growth. Elsewhere, opponents have used zoning and environmental laws to block plans for new farms. Residents are also seeking to shut plants now in operation. "The smells are horrendous," complains Carla Smalts, an Oklahoma farm wife who has sued to prevent a pig palace from opening near her home. She's also helping to coordinate anti-hog farm movements in five states. In Colorado, where water rights are often a heated issue, Travis, Dobler and an organization called Alliance Conserving Tomorrow used state groundwater laws that restrict new wells to stop Midwest Farms from...
...Edgar Bronfman Jr. (to run MCA Universal) and Michael Eisner (to join him as No. 2 man at Disney). "Barry has had these unbelievable silver trays offered to him, and he's always said no," says his best friend, designer Diane Von Furstenberg. Why no? "He's not a pig," she explains. "It's not about greed with him. It's ambition, it's vision, and that makes him different and makes him a nice person." An interesting theory: ambition leads to niceness...
...advent of genetic engineering, among other things, has allowed researchers to begin breaching that natural barrier. Last spring scientists at Duke University Medical Center reported that they had successfully altered the genetic makeup of a strain of pigs. As a result, the researchers managed to fool the immune systems of three baboons into accepting pig hearts, for a short while at least. Using a similar technique, the British biotechnology company Imutran has produced a herd of 300 genetically altered swine. The company expects to transplant either a pig's heart or a liver into a human subject later this year...