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Favorite childhood toy: Polly Pocket...
...Pixar, the delightfully confounding combination of the two: part high-tech shop, part movie studio. Headed by Apple Computer's Steve Jobs and run by John Lasseter, an animator hailed as the next Walt Disney, Pixar has made exactly six computer-animated features in its 20-year history, from Toy Story to The Incredibles. Every one was a smash. Every one was distributed by Disney, which also shared costs and profits...
That's why Lasseter, Pixar's storyteller in chief, will become Disney's chief creative officer. Already he has suspended Disney's work on Toy Story 3. Before the deal, Disney owned the right to produce Pixar sequels without Pixar and was exercising it, to Lasseter's horror. A Disney animator back in the days of Tron, Lasseter is expected to revamp Toy Story 3 and other features in part by demanding that stories and characters drive the picture--not the visuals or bean counters. Catmull says creatives at Disney animation and Pixar will work more closely on story development...
...remote, impoverished Turkish town of Dogubeyazit, a chicken is more than just a bird. For the hardscrabble villagers, it's often the only source of dietary protein, and for their children, the only toy. So it was no surprise that 15-year-old Fatma Kocyigit and her 14-year-old brother Mehmet Ali played with the sick fowl their father had brought indoors for protection from the bitter December cold. The fun proved fatal. The children came down with high fevers and bleeding throats; when they went to a nearby hospital, they received ordinary medication for a cold and were...
...would like to import and perhaps sell at his Honda dealership in Sacramento, Calif. He doesn't know what styles he'll promote, what he'll charge or how exactly he'll persuade Americans to buy a car made in China?one that isn't a Hot Wheels toy, that...