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Like Francis Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Jonathan Demme, John Sayles and Paul Bartel, Dante is an honors graduate of the Roger Corman night school of no-budget film making. Working for slave wages at Gorman's New World Pictures in the mid-'70s, Dante learned how to finesse movies...
When the Museum of Comparative Zoology opened more than 100 years ago with a small specimen collection kept in limited space and financed on a shoestring budget, few people could have predicted that it would become one of America's best natural history collections and one of the preeminent teaching...
Three shoestring movies tilt at the Hollywood system
TEC's guiding spirit was Arthur Taylor, 47, a former president of CBS Inc. His vision, backed by a $100 million three-year commitment from RCA and RCI, was of a service providing "quality but popular" programming for viewers not addicted to the networks. TEC had a ten-year...
For nearly four decades, Marjory Stoneman Douglas, 92, has been the eloquent voice of South Florida's Everglades. As writer, she celebrated the mysteries of the swampy wilderness in the 1947 classic, The Everglades: River of Grass. As president of Friends of the Everglades, the 2,800-member organization...