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...biggest difference is trying to make kids’ movies appeal to wider audiences. In the past, kids’ movies were made exclusively for kids. But I think we’ve increasingly tried to make movies that operate on two levels – they can be fun an entertaining to both kids and adults. It’s one of the most interesting challenges of my job. I think people assume making “kids” movies is easy. But in many ways, I think it can be more difficult than making...
...Death of Civil Rights and the Reign of Hip Hop. "A big part of hip-hop is about representing, and they want to rep their culture." The Sundance hit Hustle & Flow, about a Memphis, Tenn., pimp who wants to be a rapper, will introduce the sound to an even wider audience and ought to boost collaborators like Memphians Al Kapone and Three 6 Mafia, not to mention Ludacris, who has a pivotal role as a rapper from the streets made good known as Skinny Black. Performers on the sound track--including T.I., Mike Jones (from Houston) and Juvenile (from...
...voice, and I liked the stage because the characters do all the talking for you." The shift brought criticism: "I was very conscious of the disapproval of friends and reviewers who felt I was taking a rather sharp step downward." Since then, however, playwriting has won Frayn a wider following and much more money than his earlier ventures: Noises Off has been running for four years in London, and Steven Spielberg paid producers a reported $1 million plus for the screen rights, an act Frayn regards as folly. "I was asked if I would write the screenplay," he recalls...
...that post, Conable may be able to help the Secretary implement the socalled Baker plan to ease the debt crisis of developing nations. Unveiled in October, the plan calls for the World Bank, which lends about $15 billion a year to some 100 developing nations, to provide a wider range of financial assistance than previously, and also to play a role in prescribing long-term economic reforms for its debtor clients. Lately, the Baker plan has showed signs of stalling, but Conable's nomination is clearly intended to give the scheme a new boost...
...farfetched theme was echoed by Loutof Haydar, Syria's Ambassador to Britain, whom Hindawi has implicated in the El Al scheme. Haydar reportedly dismissed the charge as a "setup to defame Syria." In addition, the state-controlled Damascus Radio charged that U.S. and Israeli agents were responsible for a "wider campaign against Syria...