Posted: Sun., Jul. 23, 2006, 6:00am PT

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A cog in the Mouse House

"Suddenly, he knew. The problem was not Nina Jacobson or Dick Cook or Oren Aviv. He wasn't looking at three individuals. They had morphed into one, the embodiment of the company they worked for, and that company, the great Walt Disney Co. ... no longer valued individualism. It no longer valued fighters. Nina and Cook and Aviv wanted Night to be a cog."

-- M. Night Shyamalan's ephiphany during a meeting to discuss his "sale" script of "Lady in the Water," as related in "The Man Who Heard Voices." See review, page 39.


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