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...saying, 'Come do this movie on Monday.' So you have to do it on your own." He has already checked off teen flick (Dazed and Confused), western (The Newton Boys), romance (Before Sunrise), sequel (Before Sunset), animation (Waking Life), sci-fi (A Scanner Darkly, due in 2006), filmed play (Tape) and a kids' movie (School of Rock). If you've got a script for an Elizabethan musical, now might be the time to send it over...
...late '90s, after The Newton Boys flopped, Linklater was unable to get financing for any of his ideas, so he used a digital video camera to make Tape (three friends in a motel room talk about an old date rape) and the footage he would eventually turn into animation for Waking Life. "I was back to square one. There I was with my little videotape walking around the streets of Austin with my friends," he says. "I'm sure I'll be there again. Life is cyclical...
...TIME: You sent him a tape of some improvised scenes...
...backlash came quickly. Nationalists, who still dominate local media and politics, launched a vicious campaign against Natasa Kandic, the Serbian human rights activist who had uncovered the tape and given it to the Hague tribunal. Kandic, named as one of Time's Heroes in 2003 for her work exposing war crimes, has been branded a traitor and the leader of a conspiracy to demonize her own country - a group of legislators even called for a national referendum to stop her from working in Serbia, while others wanted her locked up in a mental hospital. A scheduled TV appearance in Kikinda...
...says. "They feel threatned, because they fear they will be exposed." She believes that most Serbs are on her side, and she may be right. According to a recent opinion poll, the number of Serbs who support the war crimes Tribunal rose 15 percent after the release of the tape, with almost half of Serbia now supporting an institution long dismissed by many as a kangaroo court to victimize Serbs. And on Monday, for the first time, Serbia's president will take part in Srebrenica commemoration...