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...Rolf focused on becoming the best English speaker he could." That single-mindedness was parlayed to filmmaking when De Heer was accepted into the Australian Film Television and Radio School in Sydney. After graduating, he found the going tough. An early children's feature was followed by a sci-fi thriller, and then, after an aborted film in Indonesia, De Heer began living in Canberra. It was there he received a phone call from his loyal sound designer, offering him a permanent office in Adelaide. "It's off the center a bit," admits Currie, "but he has everything...
...play in the office March Madness pool—and maybe pass me a few tips.” But Russia geek? “Um, thanks for the vodka but you might want to look elsewhere.” And it’s even worse for sci-fi geek. “Yeah, I don’t think anyone’s going out after work. We’re all really exhausted...
...OCTAVIA BUTLER, 58, novelist who was the first black woman to achieve major success in the white-male-dominated genre of science fiction; of head injuries from a fall; in Seattle, Wash. A loner and self-described "oil-and-water" mix of "ambition, laziness, insecurity [and] certainty," Butler subverted sci-fi stereotypes to tackle issues like racism and poverty in books like Kindred, the tale of a black woman who time-travels back to the antebellum South. In 1995, she became the only sci-fi writer ever to receive a MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant...
...OCTAVIA BUTLER, 58, novelist who was the first black woman to achieve major success in the white-male-dominated genre of science-fiction; of head injuries from a fall; in Seattle, Washington. A loner and self-described "oil-and-water" mix of "ambition, laziness, insecurity [and] certainty," Butler subverted sci-fi stereotypes to tackle issues like racism and poverty in books like Kindred, the tale of a black woman who time-travels back to the antebellum South. In 1995, she became the only sci-fi writer ever to receive a MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant...
Following a strange path, The Fountain began as an epic Brad Pitt vehicle written and directed by Aronofsky, whose indie movie ? combined sci-fi, mysticism and math to much critical acclaim. Reportedly budgeted at $75 million in 2002, The Fountain was well into pre-production when Pitt dropped out, closing the project. Continuing an emerging trend of turning failed film projects into comix (see Birth of a Nation), The Fountain represents a visualization of that lost picture. However, simultaneously with working on the book, Aronofsky developed a scaled-down movie version, starring Hugh Jackman, which is now in post-production...