{"id":6533,"date":"2010-01-15T12:24:58","date_gmt":"2010-01-15T17:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/?p=6533"},"modified":"2010-01-15T15:33:40","modified_gmt":"2010-01-15T20:33:40","slug":"the-dream-of-the-blue-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/?p=6533","title":{"rendered":"The Dream of the Blue People."},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"avatar-james-cameron-interviewjpg-670a6289770f7c9e_large\"<\/a>Throughout his career, writer\/director James Cameron, right, has pushed an insistent, technologically-demanding style of filmmaking seemingly up a cliff.<\/strong> From seeing Star Wars, <\/em>as a 22-year-old truck driver in his native Canada, to becoming creator of the highest-grossing film in history\u20141997’s $1.8 billion Titanic<\/em>\u2014he has taken hold of the film industry by sheer force of will. Meanwhile, with each advancing step, the creator has fought off naysayers and second-guessers, each expecting his next outrageous vision to be his final folly.<\/p>\n

With the release of his latest work, Avatar<\/em><\/a>, above, however, Cameron has shattered expectations, as well as creative and financial barriers, to make what is, after five weeks, already the second-highest-grossing film in history, with eyes on its older sister’s No. 1 position.<\/p>\n

\"116347_keegan_rebecca\"<\/a>Who is James Cameron, and what makes him the man and artist he is?<\/strong> In her new book, The Futurist: The Life and Films of James Cameron<\/em><\/a>, author Rebecca Keegan, right, works to get inside his life and thinking. By interviewing Cameron, his family, and his numerous collaborators, the journalist gives a detailed, never-before-seen picture of this remarkable, often confounding auteur; the drive behind the driver, so to speak.<\/p>\n

Rebecca Keegan is the guest today on my WBAI-NY \/ 99.5 FM radio show, NONFICTION, this afternoon, Friday, January 15, at 2 pm ET.<\/p>\n

That conversation, though, will be preceeded by a discussion of the crisis in Haiti. This week’s devastating 7.0 earthquake, which killed an estimated 45-50,000 people, deepens the woes of the Western hemisphere’s poorest nation. We’ll examine the disaster, and the forces at work, globally, that keep the country in its troubled state.<\/p>\n

You can hear Rebecca Keegan’s thoughts, and others, by tuning in at 2 pm. If you’re outside of the New York tri-state, check out our live stream<\/a> on the web. If you miss the live show, dig into our archives<\/a> for up to 90 days after broadcast.<\/p>\n

UPDATE: These are links to the Haiti pieces from which I read during today’s NONFICTION broadcast:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Why We Are Partly Responsible for the Mess that is Haiti<\/a> by Thomas Fleming<\/strong><\/p>\n

Haiti: the land where children eat mud<\/a> by Alex von Tunzelmann<\/strong><\/p>\n

Also recommended:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Catastrophe in Haiti<\/a> by Ashley Smith<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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