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Journalism Giant Tim Russert, a perfectly authentic human being, ought to be your Person of the Year [June 30]. The Rev. Stanton D. Tate, MERIDIAN, IDAHO...
...environmental prevention--banning alcohol in public places, for instance, or restricting alcohol licenses near schools. Prevention officials began working less with teachers and more with cops. In a way, the new strategy worked: fewer kids drink now because it's harder for them to obtain alcohol. But as psychologist Stanton Peele writes in his 2007 book Addiction-Proof Your Child (one of his 10 books on addiction), "When alcohol is presented as impossibly dangerous, it becomes alluring as a 'forbidden fruit' ... The choice between abstinence and excess is not a good one to force on children...
...many Pixar movies, beginning with Lasseter's '80s shorts Luxo, Jr. (whose lamp became the i in the company's logo), Red's Dream and Tin Toy, all made to demonstrate the possibilities of the infant CGI medium but with the savvy and sentiment of a natural storyteller. Stanton says he has seen Luxo, Jr. dozens of times, yet, "Miraculously, I get caught up every time" in the wordless story of father-and-son lamps. Take that 2-min. experiment from 1986, and WALL?E is the logical romantic extension: toy meets girl...
Having spent so much time with George Lucas on the Star Wars series, Burtt is used to demanding directors. But even he was sometimes perplexed by Stanton's requests. "Andrew would say, 'That sound of the motor--could we have one with more pathos?' I wonder about that for a minute. And then I see it as just another challenge...
...want to contribute to the dreck," Stanton says of the Pixar team. "We want to sustain the love of going to movies. After Finding Nemo, I thought, Now is the time to push open the door--to broaden the palette, increase the possibility of what a good movie is in the audience's mind." Will they have to open their receptors? Fine. "If they discover it on their own, they'll enjoy it so much more...