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September 18, 2006
Epiphany: James Schamus at sea
In Sunday's NY Times biz section, Focus Features chief executive James Schamus gets "The Boss" treatment, and shares this lovely moment: "After bouncing around several colleges, I got my bachelor’s in English at U.C. Berkeley in 1982. In grad school there, my academic interests shifted from Milton to the history of cinema. One of my first teaching jobs was as an assistant for Prof. Carol Clover’s Ingmar Bergman class. Incredibly, this summer Ang Lee and I were invited to visit Bergman on his little island in the Baltic Sea. He’s 89 and has been my hero since I was a kid. He touched our faces as if we were small children, which, I suppose, we were. As Ang said, “You can dream of winning an Oscar, but you could never dream of this.”
Posted by Ray Pride at September 18, 2006 05:36 PM
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