Word: screens
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...Most Hollywood movies can go from script to screen in under a year. Making an animated film, he said, "is like a transatlantic submarine journey," with lengthy stages of writing, recording the voice talent and the nearly endless stages of creating the images; it's not just PhotoShopping. Even now, less than six months before the Nov. 2 U.S. premiere, some of the sequences were not finished. But the script is there, and it's very Jerry...
...Michael Moore: In Bowling for Columbine, we used the videotape in the cafeteria, but I?m not going to show students being killed. In Fahrenheit 9/11, I felt that the media had shown the images of the planes flying into the towers more than enough, so the screen goes black for over a minute during the attack. So I?m always thinking about this sort of thing...
...Smoke Screen Your article about how Hollywood glamorizes smoking was illustrated with photos of Scarlett Johansson, Terrence Howard and Jack Nicholson lighting up in recent films [April 30]. You did not mention that all three were playing criminals. We don't see a lot of heroes smoking in films anymore. We do, however, still see lots of movie heroes solving their problems with fists and guns. That's a bigger problem than cigarettes. William Flanagan, New York City...
...another way to procrastinate during reading period. A student gaming group has set up a “Harvard Gamespace” in Leverett House where students can get their video game fix. Tucked away on the first floor of Leverett F-Tower, the Gamespace boasts a big screen television, an Xbox 360, a Nintendo Wii, surround sound, and 13 games. The room’s library includes popular titles such as Madden 2007 and Wii Sports, and organizers said that plans are in the works to add a Playstation 3 by next week. According to Harvard Interactive Media Group...
...slide show is a journey," says Gore, standing beside his trusty screen in a Nashville hotel ballroom. It's mid-March, and he's addressing 150 people-students, academics, lawyers, a former Miss Oklahoma contestant, a fashion designer, a linebacker for the Philadelphia Eagles. They've come at their own expense to learn how to give the slide show. There's an undeniable buzz in the room, the feeling that takes over a group that knows it's part of something that's big and getting bigger...