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...artist Rick Baker argued whether the citizens of Who-ville should look odd (Baker's choice) or cute (Grazer's), and debate raged over what shade of green the Grinch should be. Because Seuss's own illustrations in his book were too austere for a splashy holiday movie (his Whos lived in thatched huts), production designer Michael Corenblith had to comb through the entire Seuss canon to find recurring shapes and motifs on which to base the film's swirling, elaborate sets...
Need a musical goose?/then get off your caboose/and enthuse for a doozical, woozical Seuss/Where the Whos call a truce/And a moose might be puce/When you choose a Carus-ical, musical Seuss. Maybe nobody can twist sounds into balloon animals of rhyme the way Theodor Geisel did, but a Tony-laden team is going to try, adapting some of Geisel's Dr. Seuss books and characters into a Broadway show called Seussical: The Musical. The songs are by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty (Ragtime). Frank Galati, who won two Tony awards for The Grapes of Wrath, is the director...
...often said that Star Wars revolutionized the way that movies are made, usually referring to the technical special-effects side of the business. That's really only half the story. Less than half. Anyone whos seen 2001: A Space Odyssey will know that Star Wars was not the first, or even the best, science fiction special effects extravaganza seen in Hollywood. While Lucas was still in film school, Stanley Kubrick was sending space stations spinning to classical waltz music and showing us humans suspended in space (a feat not attempted in any of the Star Wars movies...
...AMBer22: WHOS COOL...
...gotta be above average or you wouldn't be in a museum in the first place, right?" Pause. "Of course, we all have our limits. And we should. There's no reason to accept the lousy way certain people drive, f'instance -- not to mention how the you-know-whos do business. But I can tell you're not like them!" The host, who pops up regularly throughout the exhibits, points to doors marked PREJUDICED and NOT PREJUDICED. "You know which to choose," he purrs. Predictably (and the museum can sometimes be a bit heavy-handed in its predictability), visitors...