Word: shrek
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...Weight of the fleece sheared from Shrek, a sheep that roamed free in New Zealand for six years. The wool will be auctioned for charity...
...franchises to exploit, it looks like this summer’s crop of bad action films will feature slightly fewer movies with a “II” or “III” after their names. There are new installments of Spider-Man, Harry Potter, Shrek and The Bourne Identity on the way (not to mention Alien vs. Predator, which makes me wonder when Alien and Predator will face off against Jason and Freddy), but there is also a lot of big-budget product which should be perfectly craptacular despite not being a sequel to anything?...
...Diaries, Hollywood has waved its wand and conjured a set of Cinderella stories for girls, including next month's The Prince & Me and Ella Enchanted, as well as A Cinderella Story in July and a Princess Diaries sequel in August. That's not to mention other fairy-tale projects (Shrek 2) and transformational stories like 13 Going On 30, in which a gawky teen is magically morphed into a fashion-plate magazine editor played by the perpetually miniskirted Jennifer Garner...
...time when symphony orchestras are losing their audience, no word frightened the supporters of the Disney Hall more than elitism. It was essential to make a place where both Shostokovich and Shrek could feel at home. Disney, who had Leopold Stokowski shake hands on camera with Mickey Mouse, loved classical music, but he loved the public, too. Gehry's design thoroughly digests the Western architectural vocabulary without quoting literally from it. The free-form silhouette is just right for a concert hall in multimultiethnic Los Angeles, a city that doesn't look to Europe for much beyond designer shoes...
...Cartoons; in Boston. After joining the magazine in 1930, Steig produced some 1,700 drawings and cover illustrations, often featuring humorously worldly children he called Small Fry who exposed the craziness of modern life. At age 60, he began a successful second career writing children's books. Among them: Shrek, a tale of a green ogre, which was turned into a 2001 Oscar-winning animated film, and Sylvester and the Magic Pebble, which won the prized Caldecott Medal...