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JAMES CAMERONMy search for the best (and most affordable) visual effects designer I could find led me to the Roger Corman Company. Corman is famous for making a lot of movies on very cheap budgets, employing first-timers who become big-timers—from Scorsese to Coppola to Howard. Everyone there was raving about a young hotshot who was the art director and visual effects guru on Roger’s latest $3-dollar (as in extremely low budget) sci-fi epic Battle Beyond the Stars. So I arranged to meet with him.
His name was James Cameron.
Though Jim reeked talent, no one would have guessed he was going to become one of the greatest filmmakers of our time.
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An Arab Spring or an Arab Fall?
A man sets himself ablaze, a woman screams to the world of her gang rape, a 13-year old boy is mutilated and murdered—just three of hundreds of millions of Arab voices yearning to be free! To be free of what … Continue reading
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