Word: makeing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...legendary eccentric in a field famous for its oddballs, he grew up in a New Mexico desert, dropped out of high school to take up music composition and eventually drifted into video games, earning a reputation as a prodigious hacker. Amiable and rotund, he sports shoulder-length dreadlocks that make him look more like a Rastafarian reggae singer than a computer scientist...
...have something there. But it does not sit well with the people who make a living creating the ultra-realistic computer graphics widely seen in TV ads, network news shows, science-fiction movies and theme-park rides. A computer-generated backdrop for a Hollywood film may take more than two years to create; Lanier claims he can make whole virtual-reality "worlds" in less than two hours. "Jaron Lanier has created a wave of revulsion in the industry," says the president of one computer-graphics firm. "He's promising something that will never be delivered...
...point, then as now, was that stage and screen are places of sublime pretense where audiences can make believe that any actor is perfect for any role. A woman can play Hamlet (Sarah Bernhardt); a black man can play Shakespeare (Morgan Freeman as Petruchio, Denzel Washington as Richard III in Joseph Papp's Shakespeare series in New York City's Central Park). Some call it inspired casting. Others, like producer Dominick Balletta of the Pan Asian Repertory Theater, call it affirmative action. "Nontraditional casting was meant to create opportunities for actors of color," he says, "not to take jobs away...
...just what will happen if Mackintosh keeps his word. But greed -- or even common sense -- will surely rescue this farce. "There's so much money involved," says producer Papp, "that I can hardly believe it won't be done here in some way." Already Equity and Mackintosh are making murmurs toward compromise. Miss Saigon is scheduled to open April 11. Before then, the warring sides will probably find a way to make nice, make a buck and save face...
Last week another U.S. official was even more blunt. Relations between the two countries were "at a turning point," he said to TIME after the meeting. "We told Moi that he has one month to make some changes." After that, he explained to the Kenyans, there would be no chance of deterring a disapproving Congress from cutting...