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...scarecrow of a man stumbles up to three children playing at the edge of a mid-19th century Australian frontier settlement and stutters, ''Do not shoot. I am a B-b-british object.'' The most bumptious of the young group marches the frightened visitor home, where he is taken in as a stray. Speaking English as a forgotten language, he explains that his name is Gemmy Fairley, that he was a cabin boy shipwrecked off Queensland and raised by what today would be called Native Australians. ''Blacks,'' the fearful pioneers call them. If readers on the other side...
...George Gershwin's work as coming not from ''an American network but from the BBC'' ((REVIEWS, Oct. 4)). Some readers may think this implies that the BBC made it. Although the BBC was a marvelous co-producer and provided the state-of-the-art digital equipment for our shoot, the Gershwin family entrusted the television production of what is possibly America's greatest opera to three Englishmen: Trevor Nunn, Greg Smith and me. It was an honor...
...know yet. We just did a photo shoot for a magazine layout that's gonna come out in November that would be the 25th anniversary of the movie. We've been talking about some kind of concert tour. We really love to get together. We make each other laugh still. And we love playing music, so why wouldn't we do that? The Spinal Tap business has been a - what do they say on the business shows? - a declining asset for some time in terms of us. Somebody's making money off of Spinal...
...rest. An hour later, waiting for a client at a hotel across the street from the Iranian embassy, he says he saw a car get too close to an armored ISAF convoy and take fire from the roof-mounted turrets. "If you go behind car of ISAF, they shoot you and you're dead," says Aimal. "This is my country! This is shame...
...Next Diamond. I tried to make it an action musical. It was a pretty good script, but it was hard to get financing, hard to make the studios believe that musicals still work, and hard to get stars, because we wanted a star who could sing, dance and shoot. I'm still working on it. If I can't make it in Hollywood, I will try to make it in China...