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...silly mortals to figure out how they all fit together. Last week's talk of a $35 billion purchase of Canada's Seagram by France's Vivendi represents the latest human attempt to make some of these pieces click into a seamless, revenue-generating new-economy Tinkertoy. The toy boys in this deal, Vivendi CEO Jean-Marie Messier, 43, and Seagram CEO Edgar Bronfman Jr., 45, can't resist the urge to merge Vivendi's telephone company, Internet provider and cable system with Seagram's Universal Studios and Universal Music Group...
...what was once called cartooning. "For decades," says film historian John Canemaker, director of the animation program at New York University, "feature animation was dominated by one style: Disney's. Now a diversity of techniques and styles are gaining acceptance. There are computer-animated features, such as Pixar's Toy Story and A Bug's Life. There is clay and/or puppet animation--and because of the artistry of Nick Park and Peter Lord, it is going to grab audiences. We are expanding the definition of the form. It's a brave new world in animation...
...Troy, N.Y., coll. 19. It is sometimes jerked 22. He's offered Bush access to Pentagon info 23. They could use some refinement 24. Puppeteer Baird 25. Exploit 27. Analogy words 28. He termed his re-election "fair" 29. TV's Sharkey, for one 30. Butt 33. __ tzu (toy-dog breed) 38. Kind of card 39. The Lady __ Tramp 41. He's been convicted of espionage 42. Panhandler's income 43. Haymarket Square event, for one 44. Hungarian patriot Nagy 45. Cold war follower 46. __-dieu (prayer bench) 47. Hankerings 49. Sturm __ Drang 50. College sr.'s test...
Sadie Benning was unimpressed when her dad, an avant-garde filmmaker, gave her a Fisher-Price PXL 2000 toy video camera for Christmas when she was 15. Only after New Year's did she turn it on in her bedroom and start making movies about coming of age as a lesbian teenager in Milwaukee, Wis. Her grainy, black-and-white compositions soon made their way to film festivals, and by the time she was 20 her "Pixelvision" videos were shown at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Her 1998 video Flat Is Beautiful was screened at this...
...McInally may be best known for his success after football. In 1986, McInally created Starting Lineup, a toy company famous for its figurines of sports stars still popular with kids...