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...store owner, Hesh (Judah Friedlander, “30 Rock”). The film’s strengths lie in its musical and visual trappings. Good costuming insured that each caricature-character looks the part, while the rhythm and blues-infused garage rock music by Stevie Salas and Dorian Heartsong captures the careless, rebellious, and dangerous energy of the film. The movie also intersperses shaky, close-up hand-camera shots with picturesque and still images, which lends “Live Free or Die” the look of a beautiful, low-budget affair, which is doubtlessly what earned...
...Queensland. But when it came time for Miller to concoct his first purely animated feature half a century later, the greatest inspiration came not from Warner Bros. but from wildlife documentaries. Tickled by the fact that Antarctica's emperor penguins distinguish their mates by the unique call of their "heartsong," Miller conceived a cartoon musical. But as always, it took technology a while to catch up with his imagination. At Sydney's Animal Logic production house, a system was devised to incorporate the amphibious moves of dancers filmed in motion-capture suits and weave them back into the computer-generated...
...Also usually at play is a mixture of calm intelligence and charm-the winning bedside manner of this cinematic Dr. Feelgood. "Was there no place where a penguin without a heartsong could truly belong?" asks Happy Feet's narrator at one point. This being a George Miller movie, the answer is an entertainingly entangled double negative-together with a family-friendly environmental message as light on its feet as the dance work. "You can see that element of the healer in all of George's works," insists Szubanski. "And I think that's partly why he's drawn...
...nation's most gifted young playwright. The choice also heaped honors on much-honored Director Elia Kazan (recently Oscared by Hollywood for directing Gentleman's Agreement). But the prize had a more personal significance for Producer Irene Selznick : Streetcar was her first Broadway production (her Heartsong was a pre-Broadway flop). This clinched the fact that the daughter of Cinemogul L. B. Mayer who is also sister-in-law of Cinemogul William Goetz and ex-wife of Cinemogul David O. Selznick, had at last made a success in show business that she could call...
Last year, against the stern advice of L.B., Irene began looking for a play to produce. When Heartsong flopped, Hollywood smiled knowingly. But Tennessee Williams' agent, who had been popping in to rehearsals to watch Irene work, offered her the chance to produce Streetcar. Says Irene with unashamed pride: "Producers have to be cast just as carefully as actors, you know...