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05/31/99 Bad News in Russia
Thanks to warwolf for this fan news update. This article appeared in today's telegraph...
Russians ridicule Fiennes version of Pushkin classic
By Marcus Warren in Moscow
RALPH FIENNES suffered the consequences of taking liberties with Russia's national poet yesterday when his new film version of Pushkin's classic novel
Eugene Onegin was ridiculed for a series of historical howlers.Last night's premiere in St Petersburg was hailed as Britain's contribution to festivities for the 200th anniversary of Pushkin's birth next Sunday. But Saturday's press showing turned into a game of "spot the mistake".
At one stage the audience hooted with laughter and burst into mock applause when a young lady of the early 19th century Russian aristocracy launched into a song from a notorious Stalin-era propaganda film. Not only was the song first performed by a choir of collective farm girls in the 1950 movie Cossacks From the Kuban, it is also a firm favourite at drunken parties in today's Russia.
Fiennes, who plays the title role and is also executive producer, played down the slip at a press conference yesterday, saying: "I trust you saw that Onegin looked bored when he heard that song from the Soviet period."
However, the 36-year-old British star had been a good deal less relaxed when the gaffe was pointed out to him on Saturday. According to one onlooker, "he turned as white as a sheet". There was more laughter from the audience when it read a clumsy Russian translation in subtitles of the English prose version of some of the novel's most famous lines of poetry.
Eugene Onegin - which tells of unrequited love, cynicism and a duel in upper-class society at the beginning of the last century - was Russia's first proper novel and Pushkin the father of the country's literary language. So Fiennes had been understandably nervous about how ordinary Russians would take to his £11 million adaptation, called simply Onegin.
"They know it so well, it's almost like making changes in the Gospel story," Fiennes said last week. His fears were proved right. Members of Saturday'saudience - who, like most educated Russians, knew huge passages by heart - said they were distracted by the film's anachronisms and departures from the original text.
One journalist likened the cutting of the famous dream by the novel's main heroine, Tatyana - played by Liv Tyler - to axing Hamlet's "To be or not to be" soliloquy. Elsewhere in the film the characters dance to a waltz immediately recognisable as dating from the beginning of this century; Tatyana's name-day ball is held in summer, instead of January; and she marries a young, rather than grey-haired, husband.
The slips overshadowed what for many members of the audience was a hugely
enjoyable piece of cinema and an electrifying performance by Fiennes himself.
However, at least one Pushkin scholar hated the film, which is directed by
Fiennes's sister, Martha, and compared it unfavourably to Tchaikovsky's opera
based on the novel."The British film-makers have carried out a more radical experiment than Tchaikovsky: they have subtracted not just the author but the poetry from Pushkin's novel," complained Leonid Dubshan. "All that is left is something comparable in the wretchedness of its plot with a fairy tale. The film's creators have committed a profound act of anti-culture."
05/30/99 Ralph Opens Onegin in Russia, and to Appear at Carnegie Hall
Finally, some real news. Here is an article about Onegin, Ralph's appearance at Carnegie Hall, and about how Alex Kingston feels about watching his work.
Ralph takes a shot at Pushkin
Daily Telegraph Thursday May 27, 1999Ralph Fiennes's star power won't help him if the Russians don't like his new film this weekend. He talks to Quentin Falk.
RALPH FIENNES has never been exactly famous for embracing the publicity machine. Despite a glittering career that has already contained a clutch of award-winning stage roles and Oscar-nominated film performances, the diffident 36-year-old actor is known for giving interviews with all the enthusiasm of a man having teeth extracted.
So discovering him in a working men's club adjacent to the stark Trellick Tower in west London seemed only marginally less surprising than hearing him talk at full spate and with undiluted passion about his latest film, Onegin, which sees him back on
the big screen in his best form since that trophy-laden spectacular, The English Patient. It will be released in the UK later this year.Fiennes is inordinately proud of his most personal project to date - an £11-million adaptation of Alexander Pushkin's verse novel, Evgeny Onegin. He's clearly nervous about it, too. He is not only the eponymous star but also executive producer; his sister, Martha, directed the film and brother Magnus composed the music. His real-life girlfriend, Francesca Annis, even has a sexy, blink-and-you'll-miss it cameo in the pre-credit sequence.
It sounds, on the face of it, dangerously like a mega-dollar home movie, strictly for family and friends. Happily, the reality is somewhat different, for what this American-financed collaboration between three of the six Fiennes siblings has yielded is a quite stunning, intensely moving romantic tragedy, set in a beautifully recreated 19th-century Russia - achieved with a skilful mixture of St Petersburg locations, lavish Shepperton studio sets and a handy local common.
But what concerns Fiennes much more than any accusations of nepotism is his impending visit to Russia, where the film is to be the centrepiece of a Pushkin festival beginning this weekend in St Petersburg. Not just any festival, mind you, but the
home leg of a series of worldwide celebrations to mark the bicentenary of the birth of Russia's national poet, on June 6.On the scale of nerve-racking, playing Chekhov's Ivanov at Moscow's Maly Theatre - as Fiennes did a couple of years back, in an Almeida Theatre production - was a mere shudder by comparison.
Pushkin is quoted by Russians in the way Shakespeare is quoted here. Fiennes suggests twitchily that it's more like messing with the Bible, except that Pushkin's work - which also includes The Gypsies, Boris Godunov and The Queen of Spades, as well as reams of verse - is probably better known in Russia than the Bible.
Yet, while acknowledging a huge sense of responsibility, Fiennes claims that it would have been unwise in translation to cinema to be "too precious about it". "You can't be hamstrung by national possessiveness," he says. "Of course one rightly has to be aware of how the piece is regarded. I can't say how Russians will respond, but they will inevitably be critical of certain choices, of certain changes we've made in the poem. They know it so well - it's almost like making changes in the Gospel story."
Or, as he politely warned a group of Russian journalists who were visiting London to see Onegin for the first time, "it represents Pushkin's poem and a film is not just a projected piece of script."
The Onegin story - best known in the west as the Tchaikovsky opera, with its great lyrical arias such as Tatiana's Letter Song and its magnificent final duet - follows the mixed fortunes of a cynical big-city bachelor, whose enforced stay in the country on inheriting his wealthy uncle's estate triggers a compelling scenario of love and pain. At
the heart of the piece is an epically pointless duel that tragically presaged Pushkin's own premature end in 1837, aged just 38.Doggedly pursuing his Pushkin project, in which he co-stars with Liv Tyler, Toby Stephens and Lena Headey, rather neatly straddles Fiennes's acting career to date. "At RADA," he recalls, "we had a wonderful teacher and librarian called Lloyd Trott, who saw his role as encouraging the students to have a wider breadth of knowledge about literature in general. He suggested I read Evgeny Onegin. It may have been just coincidence that I was playing Ivanov at the time, who's also a prime example of 'the superfluous man' in Russian literature. Onegin was the first of that kind. I loved the poem, especially in the Nabokov translation, and the character. From then on, I carried it always in the back of my mind thinking, 'One day. . . what a wonderful part. . .' "
By the time he completed his first film in 1992 (an ambitious if deeply unsuccessful version of Wuthering Heights) the project had moved haltingly on to paper.
"I had scrawled some loose storyboard ideas," says Fiennes, "drawn some pictures and even written a small treatment which I then showed to Martha, who
was doing commercials and promo videos. It wasn't a question of just giving her a break, rather more my recognising, 'Hey, hang on - my sister's doing some
exciting work here.' I said to her, 'Look, we can develop this together as a project which may or may not eventually happen.' "So, while they then continued to pursue their separate careers - Ralph in films such as Schindler's List and Quiz Show, Martha in award-winning ads and music videos - first Michael Ignatieff and then a young writer called Peter Ettedgui churned out
various fresh drafts, after the Fienneses themselves had jointly written an early treatment."The real lift was The English Patient," says Fiennes. "I was now perceived as being 'bankable'. Doors had been open before, but nervously. After all,here was a script about a man who first says no to the girl, shoots his best friend for no really good reason, and then doesn't get the girl. When the money began to get serious, the voices of compromise also began to come in, but we were determined to do it the way we wanted.
"As for my extra role as executive producer, I didn't know quite what it actually meant," he adds. "I'd seen people before called executive producers who did absolutely nothing. I wasn't involved in the money. I was there to support Martha, which mainly meant in terms of the script. We both discovered how it was necessary to make wrenches away from the source
material yet, at the same time, still be true to it. It's about responding cinematically to what's on the page."Overall, Fiennes - who has since completed three roles in Istvan Szabo's Taste of Sunshine, and is currently finishing his first foray into the world of Graham Greene, playing Maurice Bendrix in Neil Jordan's new version of The End of the Affair -
seems content. "Between the two of us, I think we can say this is the film we wanted to make," he says, adding just a little enigmatically, "as much as one ever can."
Ralph Fiennes also takes part in Radio 3's 'Pushkin and St Petersburg' festival, beginning on Sunday.A Fiennes Romance
Alex Kingston, who plays Dr. Elizabeth Corday on "ER," makes sure to avoid anything her ex-husband Ralph Fiennes is in. "I've got no idea what Ralph is
up to," she says of Fiennes, who left her for actress Francesca Annis. "I won't see his work ever again. It would be too painful to watch 90 minutes of his face."Kingston should avoid Carnegie Hall on June 12. That's when Fiennes heads up a tribute to Russian writer Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin. Fiennes, star of the upcoming film adaptation of Pushkin's "Onegin," will be joined by Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan and Russian Ambassador Yury Ushakov.
Salon Entertainment News
04/21/99 Onegin Press Release
RALPH FIENNES STARS AS "ONEGIN" IN NEW FILM DIRECTED BY
MARTHA FIENNES
"ONEGIN" OPENS IN THE UK THIS YEAR, FOLLOWING PUSHKIN BI-CENTENARY
Ralph Fiennes stars as Eugene Onegin in a new British film version of the classic work by one of Russia’s greatest poets and romantic heroes, Alexander Pushkin. The film,"ONEGIN", is directed by Martha Fiennes (sister) and also stars Liv Tyler, Toby Stephens, Lena Headey and Martin Donovan.
It will open in the UK in the autumn/winter of 1999 and is distributed in the UK by Entertainment Films.
Lavishly filmed on location in St Petersburg and the UK, "Onegin" is a tale of passion, love and sorrow in nineteenth century Russia. and an exploration of the capriciousness of life and of infatuation. Fiennes (Academy nominated for both "The English Patient" and "Schindler’s List") plays the city sophisticate, Onegin, and Liv Tyler (Stealing Beauty, Armageddon) is Tatyana, the young girl whose love for Onegin precipitates the romantic tragedy.
Ralph Fiennes had wanted to make a film of the Pushkin classic since first reading it at drama school and his enthusiasm provided the energy and commitment to raise the finance and to get the film made.
Taking his first ever behind-the-camera role, Fiennes is also Executive Producer of the film. His sister Martha, one of the UK’s top commercials and music video directors, makes her feature film debut.
Alexander Pushkin’s verse novel is considered one of the greatest works of Russian literature and Pushkin himself is regarded as the father of Russian literature. Major celebrations throughout Russia will mark the bi-centenary of his birth this summer and in the UK a series of exhibitions, displays, festivals and publications will accompany the anniversary. ONEGIN will receive its world premiere in St Petersurg in May/June (date tbc).
(19th April 1999)
03/30/99 Sunshine Definitely at Cannes
This quote appeared in Daily Variety Online:
"Other likely entrants are Istvan Szabo's ``A Taste of Sunshine,'' the saga of three generations of a Hungarian Jewish family featuring Ralph Fiennes and William Hurt; Michael Winterbottom's ``Old New Borrowed Blue,'' a romantic comedy set in Northern Ireland with Christopher Eccleston and Fionnula Flanagan; Michael Cacoyannis' ``The Cherry Orchard''; Raul Ruiz's ``Time Regained''; Rashid Benhadj's ``Mirka,'' a drama toplining Gerard Depardieu and Vanessa Redgrave; cinematographer Christopher Doyle's directorial debut ``Away With Words''; and U.K. director Lynne Ramsey's ``Rat Catcher.''"
To check out other info about the Cannes Film Festival, go to:
http://www.festival-cannes.fr/cannes98/va/index.html
03/11/99 Press Release about TEOTA
Columbia Pictures Begins Production on 'The End Of
The Affair,' Starring Ralph Fiennes, Julianne Moore
and Stephen Rea and Directed by Neil JordanLONDON, March 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Columbia Pictures began production February 15 on ``The End Of The Affair,'' the screen adaptation of Graham Greene's powerful story of love, betrayal and sexual jealousy. The film stars Oscar® nominees Ralph Fiennes, Julianne Moore and Stephen Rea and is directed by Oscar® winner Neil Jordan.
Jordan and Stephen Woolley are producers on the film, which is the tenth they have made together. The screenplay is by Jordan. The creative team, all of whom have worked with producer Woolley and director Jordan before, include director of photography Roger Pratt, production designer Anthony Pratt and editor Tony Lawson. The costume designer is Sandy Powell, who recently received a 1999 Oscar® nomination for her work on both ``Shakespeare in Love'' and ``Velvet Goldmine.'' The
film also stars Ian Hart (``Enemy of the State,'' ``The Butcher Boy'').Set in England during and just after World War II, ``The End Of The Affair'' portrays the love triangle that develops when novelist Maurice Bendrix (Fiennes) embarks on a heated affair with Sarah (Moore), a passionate woman trapped in a sterile marriage to the worthy but unexciting Henry Miles (Rea).
Fiennes graduated from the classical theater to establish his cinematic reputation with two Oscar® nominated performances in ``Schindler's List'' (1994) and ``The English Patient'' (1997). He also starred in Robert Redford's ``Quiz Show,'' ``Eugene Onegin,'' ``Oscar and Lucinda,'' ``Strange Days'' and ``The Avengers,'' and voiced the role of Ramses in ``The Prince of Egypt.'' Before starting ``The End Of The Affair'' he spent several months in Hungary playing three roles in Istvan Szabo's ``The
Taste of Sunshine.''Moore was nominated for a 1997 Academy Award® for her supporting role in ``Boogie Nights.'' Her most recent credits include ``An Ideal Husband,'' ``A Map of the World,'' ``Psycho,'' ``The Big Lebowski,'' ``Jurassic Park: The Lost World'' and ``Short Cuts.'' She will next be seen in Paul Thomas Anderson's ``Magnolia.''
A veteran of many Neil Jordan movies, including ``The Crying Game,'' which earned him a 1995 Academy Award® nomination for Best Actor, Rea starred most recently in ``Guinevere'' and ``Still Crazy.'' His films for Jordan include the recently released ``In Dreams,'' ``Interview With The Vampire,'' ``Michael Collins'' and ``The Butcher Boy.''
Producer Stephen Woolley and director/screenwriter Neil Jordan have become one of the most successful and prolific producer/director partnerships in film and recently formed a production banner, The Company of Wolves. Their relationship goes back to Jordan's first film, ``Angel,'' which Woolley distributed, and continued through ``Company of Wolves,'' ``Mona Lisa,'' ``High Spirits,'' ``The Miracle,'' ``The Crying Game'' (for which Jordan won a 1993 Academy Award® for Best Original
Screenplay and was nominated for Best Director), ``Interview With The Vampire,'' ``Michael Collins,'' ``The Butcher Boy'' and their most recent collaboration, ``In Dreams.'' Aside from his partnership with Jordan, Woolley has also produced ``Backbeat,'' ``Scandal'' and served as executive producer on ``Little Voice.''``The End Of The Affair'' will be shot at Shepperton Studios just outside London for 11 weeks. Filming will also take place at some London locations and at the seaside resort of Brighton. Post-production will also take place in the U.K. The film is slated for a December 1999 release.
Columbia Pictures, part of the Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group, is a Sony Pictures Entertainment company. Sony Pictures' global operations encompass motion picture production and distribution, television programming and syndication, home video acquisition and distribution, operation of studio facilities, development of new entertainment products, services, and
technologies, and distribution of filmed entertainment in 67 countries.Sony Pictures Entertainment can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.spe.sony.com
(R) Academy Award(s) and Oscar(s) are registered trademarks and service marks of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts andSciences
SOURCE: Columbia Pictures
03/04/99 Status of RF's Films changed a bit...
Don't get too excited folks. Unfortunately, this news is just a windrop on your yet to be parched existence for Ralph news. In desperation, I decided to check the internet movie database, http://www.imdb.com, on the off chance that there had been some change in the status of his films. Luckily there was some new info, but nothing earth shattering, so hang in there:
Onegin:
The status has changed to Complete, and that is as of February 18, 1999.TEOTA (The End of the Affair):
Filming begin in London Feb. 15, 1999.Taste of Sunshine:
Listed as "Still in post-production as of January 8, 1999.Nothing more to report sadly. However, I'd love to know if any of you purchased the bust of RF which was auctioned in London on Feb. 28. If anyone knows who bought it, I'd love to know how much it went for.
Well, hang in there guys. If you're really desperate, cruise over to Ebay. There's always something cool about RF for sale, http://www.ebay.com.
1/27/99 Ralph Reportedly Hitting the Slopes in Wyoming
Putting together a couple news leads from Stella (reporting a blurb from the Daily Mail) and other news sources, it appears that Ralph and Francesca Annis are on a skiing trip in Wyoming. Taking a slight leap in assumption, we're going to guess that he's there to see his sister Sophie's entry of a short film in the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. The short, entitled "Lars 1-10" is an 8 minute film about a Danish filmmaking group that emphasizes a type of filmmaking based on ten rules. You can read more about it at:
http://www.socialequality.com/arts/1998/nov1998/vin-n28.shtml
For more info on the Sundance Film Festival, go to:
http://www.sundancechannel.com/festival99/
It's pretty obvious that RF won't ever be in one of these types of films, because they emphasize realism, no props, etc., which is pretty hard in period dramas:-)
1/21/99 Article about Onegin in February's Premiere Magazine
Thanks to Renee for the tip about the Onegin article in Premiere. The article is about half a page long, with a picture of his sister Martha instructing Liv Tyler in a scene, and another of RF as Onegin. Looks like he's got some kind of hair piece on. For those of you who have read the story, it's from the duel scene. Here's a little quote from the article, RF talking about his sister:"Ralph insists his sister has done it for herself. 'Martha's got a very strong eye,' he says. 'If you're going to adapt something that is so visually strong, you need someone with a brave approach, someone who wouldn't setle into doing an anthropological study of manners'." Martha goes on to say about RF, who apparently is intense and quiet between takes.."Ralph is so focused that he doesn't have to laugh in between takes,' Martha says, 'But that's Ralph--he's always been that kind of person.' "
Also, the forum is back up and running, but has relocated to a slightly different address. Please bookmark the site:
http://fp.tidalwave.net/mkirk1/index.htm
1/4/98 Oscar and Lucinda Showing on Cinemax This Month :)
The first showing of Oscar and Lucinda on Cinemax will be on Friday, January 8, at 8pm EST, and Tues, Jan 19, 3:15AM EST. To find more show times for your area, or other dates, check http://www.cinemax.com
Also, please check out these new fan web sites!
Andrea's Avengersland
Andrea's sophisticated page for the Avengers is extremely informative and gives fans an opportunity to sound off in her forum...Nathan's Tribute to Ralph Fiennes
Megan's Tribute to A-List Actors (RF and others)
A classy tribute to our favorite actor, as well as opportunities to buy his work on tape, etc.Besides these new web pages, check out the Numerology Pageto find out what's in store for Ralph this year, as well as some new poems submitted by fans on the Poetry Page :-)
12/17/98 Prince of Egypt Release Dates
Argentina 25 December 98
Australia 26 December 98
Austria 18 December 98
Belgium 16 December 98
Brazil 25 December 98
Bulgaria 02 April 99
Canada 18 December 98
Chile 25 December 98
Colombia 25 December 98
Croatia 01 April 99
Cyprus 25 December 98
Czech/Slovakia 25 December 98
Denmark 25 December 98
Dominican Republic 25 December 98
Ecuador 25 December 98
Finland 18 December 98
France 16 December 98
Germany 17 December 98
Greece 18 December 98
Hong Kong 24 December 98
Hungary 24 December 98
Indonesia April 99
Italy 18 December 98
Japan 12 June 99
Korea 18 December 98
Lebanon April 99
Malaysia 11 February 99
Mexico 25 December 98
Netherlands 17 December 98
New Zealand 26 December 98
Norway 26 December 98
Panama 25 December 98
Peru 25 December 98
Philippines 27 January 99
Poland 25 December 98
Portugal 18 December 98
Puerto Rico 17 December 98
Romania 26 March 99
Singapore 17 December 98
Slovenia 01 April 99
South Africa 26 March 99
Spain 18 December 98
Sweden 18 December 98
Switzerland(French) 16 December 98
Switzerland(German) 18 December 98
Taiwan 23 January 99
Thailand 05 March 99
Trinidad 25 December 98
Turkey 14 May 99
United Kingdom
(U.K.) 18 December 98
United States 18 December 98
Venezuela 25 December 98
Yugoslavia 08 January 99
12/7/98 Joe's Christmas Wish for Privacy (learning fast from bro RF)
Apparently, InStyle Magazine asked some celebrities what they would ask Santa for Christmas, and Joe Fiennes said this: "JOSEPH FIENNES, lead in the film "Elizabeth" and brother of actor Ralph, in the December Elle magazine: "The prospect of becoming a public figure makes me anxious; the loss of privacy I saw my brother experience over the last few years isn't something I relish. But I'm firmly rooted to the ground; I know what I'm there for in terms of the work."Comment: It doesn't make sense in the context of the question (about Santa), but what I noticed was, they asked Joe, not Ralph. What I want to know is if all these new quotes etc. from Joe are a sign that if he's a little more accepting of the press and publicity, then we'll be hearing more about him in the press instead of RF. Careful what you wish or Ralph, you may just get that obscurity/privacy you so wish for. If anyone wants to comment on this idea, please visit the forum:-)
Also, thanks to Amy for this tip:
There is an interview with RF in the Dec. issue of Woman's Journal UK issue and is available at Borders Book Store in the U.S.
11/15/98 Ralph discusses Prince of Egypt on VH1
Thanks to Renee for this tip about RF being on VH1's Top 10 Video Countdown.
To see a clip of the interview, click here...Strange Days movie page is up finally:-) Check it out...
11/10/98 Incredible Article Alert
Thanks to Denese, Queen of Books for this incredible tip!! Huge article about "Sunshine" on MacClean's Magazine site, and in print version from Nov.2, 1998. Click here to read full article....11/09/98 Blurb Alert
Results from movie quiz on This Is London Site...
"For the romantics the perfect kiss was out of From Here To Eternity but the The English Patient, when Ralph Fiennes and Kristen Scott Thomas held each other in their arms received mention...aaah."
Click on link below to link to full text of article:
Also, a famous explorer of Mount Everest, Lord Hunt, died, and Ralph's Great Uncle (I think) Ranulph Fiennes commented (On BBC Online page):
"Explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes said Lord Hunt's achievements inspired his own exploits.
He said: "He was a very, very great man, one of the great mountain-climbers and helpers of youth wanting to head in the same direction of our time.
"I was a nine-year-old schoolboy with wide eyes when he led this incredible expedition which put Hillary and Tenzing on Everest.
"I was very impressed by it, one of the greatest British, or I should say Commonwealth, expeditions ever mounted," said Sir Ranulph. "
Here's link to full text, and there's a picture of Sir Ranulph as well:
http://news.bbc.co.uk:80/hi/english/uk/newsid_210000/210343.stmUnfortunately, no other real news lately that I can tell. Nothing in the wind from my contacts either. I heard there's an article out somewhere on Sunshine, but I'm still gathering the details. It might be an overseas publication.
I will be posting the cover of a Spanish magazine in the next couple days. It's a picture of Ralph and Uma. From what I can translate of the article, it seems like just a profile of the Avengers, etc. If you are a Spanish fan and are dying for more info, let me know. I might be able to scan the contents of the article and send it to you in a word file. The name of the magazine is Imagin. I want to thank Cristina (a fan from Portugal) for sending it to me.
Site News
This week, the following changes can be seen on the site:
1. Forum archived and new one put up
2. News page archived
3. Strange Days site will be up and runningInteractive Store, First Quarter Profits
For all of you who bought books through the Interactive Store, thank you very much. The total for the quarter was $25.00. That may not seem like much, but every little penny counts. The first $100.00 will go toward the cost of maintaining the site. Anything over $100.00 will be donated to a charity of your choice. So, if you haven't found something you need yet in the Interactive Store, please doublecheck. If you buy it from here, at least you know a portion of the profits are going to your site, as well as to charity. So, if you haven't checked it out yet, please do, here's the link:http://www.tidalwave.net/~mkirk/wwwroot/interactivestore1.htm
Reminders
Don't forget POE will be out December 18, 1998. For more information, visit this web site:
http://www.spielberg-dreamworks.com/poe
This is not the official site, but I've heard it has better info than the official site.
This is the official site address:
http://www.prince-of-egypt.com/Here are some quotes RF made about POE:
" . . . it's a brother story really of two brothers that fall apart, you
know. The relationship -- becomes estranged to the point where they're completely
opposite. And they -- they are in fact enemies, at the very end they're enemies, But when brothers are enemies they don't stop being brothers."" . . . I was presented with all the storyboards for the film, the artwork and the research work they had done, because they had gone to Egypt and drawn famous Egyptian sites and it was extraordinarily impressive. The whole look of it was a look that was presented to me in still pictures was -- was nothing like any animated film I'd ever seen. And I could see the influence of famous animation, but it was in another league."
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10/16/98 New Multimedia on the site!
Finally, I'm moving into the nineties and getting multimedia on the site. I've always been a bit cautious about it, because it sucks memory big time on the server, and also, I don't know too many people patient enough to download clips, but I'm betting at least once a week you'll want to. So here goes. The first clip is from TEP, and is I think, my favorite scene. I will also be putting up a clip from the Oscar parties where RF was seen. I took the clips from a show on Bravo about it.
So, be patient, go get a snack after you start downloading the clip. It takes about seven minutes, but I think it's worth it. I hope you do to...
TEP Clip of the Week
Ralph at the Oscars (from Bravo Profiles)
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