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...coach Jeff Lafave doesn't have many options to choose from. Junior guard Will Ballard is the team's leading returning scorer. He averaged 11.3 points per game and also had 36 steals last season. Senior guard Walt Plyler, who had 251 assists, will play the point...
...Burton's career began in 1976, when as an 18-year-old, the Burbank, Calif. native won a scholarship to attend the California Institute of the Arts (Cal Arts), a college founded by Walt Disney and featuring a program that, at that time, served as a training school for prospective animators. He joined Disney in 1979, working as an animator on The Fox and the Hound. Though he disliked the film's style and very little of his own work was used, he was hired as a conceptual artist for the studio's 1984 animated film The Black Cauldron, though...
...here tonight," Kevin Smith said, "and lightning has not struck the building. So I guess it's O.K. with the Lord." Smith, 29, had endured a rough six months, ever since the Catholic League, a lay group with 350,000 members and an intimidating letterhead, had pressured the Walt Disney Co. and its subsidiary Miramax Films to drop Dogma, Smith's rambunctious comedy about God, faith and a monster made of poop. Smith was able to make his movie freely, but if the protesters had had their way, he couldn't show it. To twist the famous bumper-sticker phrase...
...constituted the largest category of employers, with a whopping 41 companies sending representatives. Close behind in terms of numbers were the investment banking and computer technology firms, the latter having long shed their Silicon Valley grunge. Here and there were token "alternatives"--Teach for America, the Peace Corps, the Walt Disney Corporation--some of whose employees chose to wear clothes that tended (gasp) more toward casual Fridays than toward Wall Street...
...from director George Lucas in 1986 and now owns nearly 65%, Pixar would simply not exist. He is credited with wangling an extraordinary fifty-fifty profit-sharing deal with Disney in 1997 for five pictures. "It's his vision. He's the real deal," says Thomas Schumacher, president of Walt Disney Feature Animation. While Lasseter and Catmull handle the moviemaking, Jobs strategizes--creating, for instance, the new 15-acre "campus" in nearby Emeryville, scheduled to open...