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Thursday, July 10, 2008 --- 58 days ago http://www.wickedlocal.com/hamilton/fun/entertainment/x1768842319/If-robots-rule
 Writer-director-animator Andrew Stanton left his native Rockport and headed west when he was 18, but he still carries a piece of home with him — in fact, it’s a piece of the Red Sox. “After we won the 2004 championship, my dad found out that the sod at Fenway Park was going to be replaced, and the greens keeper was selling one foot by one foot squares,” says San Francisco-based Stanton. “He got in line, early in the morning, got a square, and then Fed Exed me half of it. Then I split half of that with another diehard Red Sox fan friend of mine. I put mine in my front lawn, and actually moved it with me when I moved to a new house. It’s still alive. We rub it for good luck, and it worked again.” Stanton might be a big baseball fan, but he’s even crazier about animation, especially when there’s good storytelling to go along with it. He directed Pixar’s biggest moneymaker, “Finding Nemo,” and now he’s made a vastly different, but equally fascinating and entertaining kind of film, “”Wall-E,” the futuristic story of a lonely robot who’s stuck trying to clean up an Earth that’s so flooded with garbage, all humans have left. The film also manages to feature a couple of songs from “Hello, Dolly!” It’s a project that’s been kicking around in his head since a Pixar brainstorming session in 1994, even before the company’s groundbreaking film “Toy Story” was released. “When we came up with this little character, it didn’t even have a name or a ... |
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