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...Franz Schubert's "Ave Maria" in Old English. One of the producers, Linda Feder, writes that Cornell "felt very strongly about wanting to do a traditional song, a classical piece, something that might turn young people onto classical music." Who would have thought the same guy who helped pioneer Seattle grunge could sing so magnificently...
...PIONEER PUBLISHER Sporting muddy work clothes as he cleared a trail with his chainsaw in Norfolk, Conn., 6-ft. 7-in. James Laughlin looked more like a refugee from the set of the film Deliverance than one of America's most distinguished publishers. Except for indulgences such as a fondness for television shows like Hawaii Five-O, Laughlin was austere--in his business ventures, his poetry and his habits. New Directions, the publishing house he founded while still a sophomore at Harvard, gave meager advances but brought to the world's attention Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Henry Miller...
...Western medicine is that it does no harm; unlike drugs and surgery, acupuncture has virtually no side effects. For acupuncturists who have been saying this for years, it was recognition long overdue. "[The panel's report] is a great step toward breaking down the barriers," said Larenz Ng, a pioneer of acupuncture research and now a professor of neurology at George Washington School of Medicine...
...pioneer of the faux-Letterman gang was Australia's Steve Vizard, a lawyer turned comedian who was host of a late-night show down under for three years, starting in 1990. He had the Letterman repertoire down pat, introduc-ing bits with the same tongue-in-cheek flourish ("I have in my left hand... "). Staff members would even prep American guests on the show by telling them, "Just pretend you're on the Letterman show." Though critics hooted at the thievery, most Aussie viewers didn't get the references--until 1994, when the real Letterman show started airing in Australia...
Movies like Star Wars, the pioneer of effects-laden movies, engendered "The Making of..." specials in which audiences saw that the production of the special effects was sometimes as interesting, and requires as much ingenuity, as their placement in the actual movie. Now, it's simply: "Oh, they did that with computers." We are by now so numbed to realistic-looking explosions and sci-fi stuff in movies that we take their existence for granted...