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...research for his book at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew, he cheerfully admits that the final selections were completely arbitrary. The only place he knew in advance would be on hislist was the Daliesque "Avenue of the Baobabs" near Morondava, Madagascar. In some cases, he showed photos of trees to people at airport check-in counters and let them tell him where to find even better ones. In others, he relied on what he calls the "Wow! factor." "My wife is by no means addicted to trees," Pakenham explains. "So if we walked by a tree and she became...
...book, Pakenham skims over the botanical minutiae and delights instead in the history and folklore that grow like thick vines around his chosen trees. For him trees are best classified by personality type: gods and goddesses, grizzlies, dwarfs, aliens and ghosts. Some are already famous, such as California's brutish General Sherman sequoia, the largest living thing, or the 2,200-year-old Sri Lankan bo tree that was reputedly grown from a cutting of the tree under which Buddha found enlightenment. Others are less well known: the Montezuma cypress in Tule, Mexico, 140 ft. high...
...lodge has a helicopter pad on a floating dock. Craig, one of the pilots, flies through narrow valleys half shrouded in mist and lands on tiny spits of land, with tree branches inches from his rotors. As he soars over river entrances, we see salmon massing in numbers that are just a memory in many of the dammed rivers elsewhere in the Pacific Northwest. King Pacific heli-fishes some 40 rivers within a one-hour flying radius of the lodge by special agreement with the local Tsimshian nation. Some of the Tsimshian work as fishing guides at the lodge...
Pinocchio's Family Tree Since Carlo Collodi first brought his puppet to life in The Adventures of Pinocchio, in 1883, there has been no shortage of fresh interpretations. Disney's animated classic is the most renowned, but the piny protagonist has launched a thousand remakes. A brief history...
...Italian eyes, none has ever quite nailed him. Benigni told a preview audience two weeks ago how his friend, the late Italian director Federico Fellini, used to call him Pinochietto and urged him to do a Pinocchio. "I feel so much like Pinocchio that when I see a tree, I yell out, 'Daddy!'" he said when the project was launched. Keeping him company on his adventure is his wife and very own Blue Fairy, Braschi, co-screenwriter Cerami and soundtrack composer Nicola Piovani, all of whom worked with him on Life is Beautiful. From the start Benigni has said...