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Being in a place like Boulder, where there are supposedly liberal, tolerant people, once you scratch the surface, they're so intolerant. I think a lot of contemporary academic climate is the same...
...hired the best, most experienced people in the film business to work with me on Titanic. The simple truth is that no one in any department (myself included) really understood the scale of this project going in. We were overwhelmed by the complexity of building a studio from scratch, including the world's largest tank facility, and simultaneously constructing one of the largest and most mechanically complex sets in history (imagine a 75-story building on its side...now move it!). We were all seasoned big-budget veterans, yet none of us had ever experienced anything like Titanic...
...Each of my 10-minute animated films took about two years, doing everything from scratch. I haven't ever worked for anybody," she says...
...risk when it hired Taymor--an avant-garde director who uses puppets, masks and other non-Western theater techniques--to adapt its most popular animated film for the stage. It turns out to have been a masterstroke. Taymor has brought the same kind of let's-start-from-scratch inspiration that Walt and his fellow animators must have had when they created Mickey and Snow White and virtually invented the art of movie animation...
...scratch Harvard's skeptical, scholarly exterior and things start to look a little more interesting. Rumors circulate: one account explains that early one morning, forty years ago, a cleaning lady vacuuming alone in Wadsworth House saw a grim character in a Tricorn hat and cloak silently come down the stairs and go out the door; another report describes the sounds of a phantom dinner party that filled the corridor by the southwest corner of University Hall, a displaced echo of the dining hall that occupied the building in the 19th century; and some remember hearing Bill Gannon, former sexton...