Word: shrek
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Even as A Bug's Life debuts this week, Pixar is hard at work on Toy Story 2 and a project dubbed Monsters, Inc., about the creatures living beneath a child's bed. DreamWorks is hoping for Antz-size success with Shrek, set for 2000 and featuring an ogre who pines for a beauty (some things never change). Universal is working on a Frankenstein project with CGI pioneer Industrial Light & Magic. Warner Bros. is readying The Iron Giant, about a machine that befriends a boy in 1950s Maine. And although both of Disney's '99 releases, Tarzan and Fantasia...
...Denise Di Novi, Farley "had to attend A.A. meetings every day. He was always trying, but with Chris it wasn't that he had just one problem. It was a constant daily battle, fighting his demons." By the time Farley was providing the voice for the title character in Shrek, an animated film from DreamWorks, studio partner Jeffrey Katzenberg was taking no chances. He put the comic under 24-hour bodyguard during recording to make sure he remained sober. Katzenberg and his associates were at times themselves taking drinks out of Farley's hands. (Based so closely on Farley, Shrek...
...SHREK! by William Steig (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $10.95). At 83, cartoonist Steig is still among the very young at art. His latest work follows the adventures of a creature so gruesome that snakes get poisoned when they bite him. But fate is kind: one bad day he meets the most hideous princess in the kingdom, and they live horribly ever after. Just what he wanted -- and so will any reader who appreciates the flip side of a classic fairy tale...