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...people see the show annually, making it the "most popular in the world," according to the Boston Ballet. That title is certainly a well-deserved one. Everything about The Nutcracker is a child's fantasy come true--stunning sets, divine costumes, amazing dancing, a literal ton of plastic confetti snow and 1,200 toe shoes. Well, perhaps all those toe shoes aren't part of the fantasy, but they're still a tribute to the massiveness that is this production...
...however, takes pity on poor Clara--at midnight, he transforms the living room into a massive battlefield where the Nutcracker, brought to glorious life, fights and wins over the mischievous mice and their king. To show Clara his gratitude, the Nutcracker Prince (Carlos Ivan Santos) takes Clara to the Snow forest and the Palace of Sweets, where a myriad of candy-related dancers entertain the two of them until Clara goes back home, supposedly happy beyond her wildest dreams...
...found most of these games oddly compelling. In the same way that Myst and Riven create places you can get lost in, the hunting titles I tried nicely evoke the great outdoors: wind blowing through the pines, boots crunching through crusty snow, the howl of a coyote in the distance. Hunting is an atavistic thrill: staking out a spot in the virtual woods and waiting quietly for a buck; centering it in the crosshairs and shooting it were satisfying in a primal, I-eat-meat kind of way. I preferred the GT titles. Deer Hunter II was more straightforward...
...industry get started, then bankrolled Hollywood at a time when the movie industry was anything but proven. In 1923 he created a motion-picture loan division and helped Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks and D.W. Griffith start United Artists. When Walt Disney ran $2 million over budget on Snow White, Giannini stepped in with a loan...
...poor animator, he proved to be a first-class gag man and story editor, a sometimes collegial, sometimes bullying, but always hands-on boss, driving his growing team of youthfully enthusiastic artists to ever greater sophistication of technique and expression. When Disney risked everything on his first feature, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, it turned out to be no risk at all, so breathlessly was his work embraced. Even the intellectual and artistic communities saw in it a kind of populist authenticity--naive and sentimental, courageous and life affirming...