Friday, January 19th, 2007
Al Pacino will step into the role of surrealist painter Salvadore Dali in a new film by Andrew Niccol, the director of S1mone and Gattaca (and the author of The Truman Show), according to Variety.
Dali & I: The Surreal Story will be based on Niccol’s script adaptation of the Stan Lauryssen book “Dali and I”. The film will cover the artist’s later days, with Niccol stating that it was then when the painter decided to take a more surreal approach in his work. Niccol feels that Pacino understood the subject.
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The first concrete details about next year’s feature by Disney-owned animation studio Pixar have emerged in a letter which mouse house CEO Robert Iger sent to shareholders.
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I prefer Obama to McCain. Now, McCain’s better than average for a Republican. And though his ads are intellectually offensive, he’s just bowing to his campaign masters and would calm down and be more sane once in office and not campaigning. But I have a few concerns with McCain on foreign policy. He’s not a full-fledged Neocon. That’s good. He opposed Reagan on Lebanon. Good. He was critical of Bush’s initial strategy in Iraq. That’s good. But there’s a problem. He thinks the Vietnam war was winnable and that the US shouldn’t have withdrawn. He’s also eager to spread democracy with force. This just isn’t a good set of beliefs for inheriting Iraq.