Variety reporter Nicole LaPorte, gives an insider’s account of the creation of Hollywood’s DreamWorks studio. In The Men Who Would Be King: An Almost Epic Tale of Moguls, Movies, and a Company Called DreamWorks she reveals Hollywood’s bizarre business rules, describes the clashes between Spielberg’s and Katzenberg’s, the disasters Oscar-winning triumphs.
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Friday, May 24, 2013
Pollution and Cancer in Toms River; Paul Anka; Elizabeth Graver's New Novel; Big Data Revolution
Dan Fagin talks about how Toms River, New Jersey, was a dumping ground for cancer-causing industrial pollution for decades. Paul Anka looks back at his life and his career in music, working with everyone from Frank Sinatra to Barnum & Bailey Circus acrobats. Elizabeth Graver talks about her latest novel, The End of the Point. And we’ll look at big data and how it will affect our economy, scientific discovery, and revolutionize our daily lives.
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Comments [3]
Speaking of the mother in Saving Private Ryan. The actress was Kathleen Byron, who was so good in Powell-Pressburger's Black Narcissus, among many other films and TV shows. She passed away just a month or two ago.
Can you ask her about the coincidences with their projects and Disney? Antz came out a few months before Bugs, Road to Eldorado came out around the same time as Emperor's New Groove, Madagascar was very similar to Disney's In the Wild."
Is there some irony in the fact Disney will now be distributing Dreamworks films? In films like Shrek, Dreamworks have lampooned Disney repeatedly with caricatures of John Lasseter and Michael Eisner.
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