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MOVIES
Star Wars to be converted to 3-D
LOS ANGELES _ George Lucas watched the massive success of "Avatar" and "Alice in Wonderland" in the 3-D format and decided it was time for a return of the Jedi.
"Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace" will return to theaters in 3-D in 2012 and will be followed by the five other live-action movies set a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.
Lucas has said that the technological strides of James Cameron's "Avatar" persuaded him to reconsider his longtime disdain for 3-D.
Lucas' Industrial Light & Magic special-effects shop is overseeing the 3-D conversion 20th Century Fox will release them.
ILM visual effects supervisor John Knoll said he doesn't intend to put out a sub-par 3-D conversion.
"Getting good results on a stereo conversion is a matter of taking the time and getting it right," Knoll said in a statement. "It takes a critical and artistic eye along with an incredible attention to detail to be successful. It is not something that you can rush if you want to expect good results. For 'Star Wars' we will take our time, applying everything we know both aesthetically and technically to bring audiences a fantastic new 'Star Wars' experience."
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Todd Pickrell and Scott A. Wine
"Waiting for'Superman'' explores education issues
Blaise Marcoux
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TORONTO Davis
Guggenheim is no doctor, but he knows the prescription for building a great school.
"It's really simple," said Guggenheim, director of "Waiting for 'Superman'."
Successful schools all share "the same ingredients," he said. "Things like longer school days, high expectations and account-ability."
And, added producer Lesley Chilcott, "they can fire bad teachers."
But Fuller, the director for the Institute for the Transformation of Learning at Marquette University,
knows the strangled sound of change falling on tone-dae ear's.
When he was the Milwaukee Public Schools superintendent, Fuller "actually did think" he could fix the system, he said with a rueful laugh.
"Very few of us go in there thinking, 'Hell, I can't do anything here.' You go in thinking you can, if not fix things, make them markedly better."
students -- $6.00!
The documentary "Waiting for "Superman" is about this larger problem — what Chilcott called the "full-blown crisis" in public education and how to fix it.
But, he said in a separate interview, "I barely made a dent in the larger problem" during his tenure.
in the film, Fuller describes something called "the dance of the lemons," which Chilcott said was part of "a whole vernacular, like rubber room or turkey trot" that is used to describe passing bad teachers from one school
to the next. In the film, Fuller also discusses being unable to fire teachers for what he described in an interview as "grievous stuff," including putting a child's head in a soiled toilet.
"Waiting for 'Superman' is not anti-teacher, the filmmakers said.
Teaching "is one of the most important jobs in the world." Guggenheim said: "Teachers need to be recruited, supported, evaluated and rewarded."
Guggenheim said hearing from a social activist like Fuller that "unions aren't on the right side of reform" is like "Nixon going to China."
But the film describes teachers unions as impediments to reform because of their resistance to merit pay, teacher standards and changes in tenure.
"If someone like him is telling us this," Guggenheim said, "it must be true."
While "Waiting for 'Superman" has its share of charts and statistics, it also humanizes the policy debate by following a group of bright and ambitious students whose chances of getting a good education depend on winning a lottery at a specialty school with enrollment limits.
And Guggenheim said suggestions that politicians continue "pouring money into a broken system" is not the answer.
"And we have to remove whatever impediments there are to create great schools. Because if all people have are options to go to mediocre schools, then that's an illusion."
Guggenheim said he went to private schools as a child because his mother told him the schools in Washington, D.C., were broken.
"Now, 40 years later, I live in L.A. and I'm packing my kids off to private school and doing what my parents did: taking care of my kids."
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ARIES (March 21-April 19)
Todav is a 5
10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.
Divide your time between imaginative group activities and personal meditations. You need to sort out logical questions. Share results.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20)
Today is a 6
A casual meeting at a social event crystallizes an idea you have for a gift. You're certain that your partner will love it.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21) Today is a 5
Your own imagination can get you in trouble if you don't bring it down to earth somehow. Refocus your intention in a more public direction.
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Today is a 7
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Today is a 6
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Today is a 5
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Todav is a 5
The fabulous outcome you anticipate can be yours. If you want something done right, do it yourself. Delegation reaps half today.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20)
Today is a 5
Doubts about your role in a partnership activity resolve when you ask questions. Then your intuition matches logical reality. Accept the offer.
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