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...Empire and get the script done while I'm also starting a bunch of companies--ILM, Skywalker Sound and Lucasfilm. I was starting a video-game company. I was developing digital film editing. At the same time I was starting Pixar"--yes, he was the original owner of that pioneer computer-animation studio, then sold it to Steve Jobs in 1985--"and launching digital animation and digital filmmaking. I was working on Raiders of the Lost Ark," which he executive-produced and co-wrote. "And I was self-financing a movie." After Star Wars, Lucas determined...
...JING SHUPING Banking Pioneer...
...driving breakbeat rhythms are everywhere in this album, and that’s what gives it its strength. Check out “Pioneer Skies”: A great track and no words can convey the overpowering urge it sets off to dance. Come With Us may not have immediate dance-floor fillers found on the Chemical’s 1999 release Surrender like “Hey Boy Hey Girl” or “Out of Control.” But overall, it is a better album: Come With Us is more diverse, but at the same...
...perhaps one of his most radical claims, Horowitz makes the assertion that blacks ought to be somewhat thankful to America, which he said “was a pioneer in the fight against slavery, and in establishing the first multiracial society in human history.” He seems to forget that it is America who unduly enslaved blacks in the first place and perpetuated that “peculiar institution” for 32 years after the British Empire outlawed...
...DIED. CALVIN CARRIERE, 80, renowned fiddler and zydeco music pioneer, regarded by many as one of the last links to French-Creole musical traditions; in Opelousas, Louisiana. Carriere's most recent recording was Les miseres dans le coeur (The Misery Direct from the Heart) in 2000. He was scheduled to perform in the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival this April...