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...Since then, a few things have actually gotten green-lighted. Coraline is being made by Henry Sellick as a stop-motion thing. Robert Zemeckis will start shooting the Beowulf script that Roger Avary and I did next week. It's one of his weird motion-capture things...
...Sandman movies, they just got increasingly appalling. It was really strange. They started out hiring some really good people and you got Elliot and Rossieau and Roger Avary came in and did a draft. They were all solid scripts. And then John Peters fired all of them and got in some people who take orders, and who wanted fistfights and all this stuff. It had no sensibility and it was just...they were horrible...
...sophomore talents made a splash this weekend at the Hatch Brown regatta, held at MIT this weekend, as they won the A-division by a vast margin. Skipper Kyle Kovacs and crew Elyse Dolbec finished with 27 points over 10 races, while their closest competitors, Roger Williams College...
...monasteries go, Taizè is young- a full millennium younger than the nearby medieval abbey of Cluny. Moreover, though it now includes 13 Roman Catholic members, Taizè was founded as a Protestant community in 1940. A Swiss theology student named Roger Schutz, then 25, came to France looking for a site for a Protestant experiment in monasticism. Schutz also wanted to help refugees from Nazism and thus chose the hamlet of Taizè, near France's German-occupied zone. There he and a few colleagues spent two years hiding Jews and others fleeing persecution...In the early 1960s, without...
...fourth anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attack, New York City hosted the U.S. Tennis Open finals between Roger Federer and Andre Agassi. By the middle of the game Agassi was behind and feeling the pressure, but as he rose to the occasion and began delivering some impressive plays, one observer remarked, “That’s the thing about Agassi: He always does just enough to be competitive against his opponent. That’s why he sometimes even loses to weaker players—he plays to their level, and then doesn’t realize...