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Connotations 18 4 Volume 18, Issue 4 August/September 2008 ConNotations FREE The Bi-Monthly Science Fiction, Fantasy & Convention Newszine of the Central Arizona Speculative Fiction Society An Interview with Featured Inside Andrew Stanton Regular Features Special Features by Robert LaPierre SF Tube Talk An Interview with On June 17th, 2008 I sat All the latest news about Andrew Stanton down with three other Scienc Fiction TV shows by Robert LaPierre reporters in a round table by Lee Whiteside interview of Andrew The End of an Era: Star Trek: Stanton. We began the 24 Frames The Experience Beams Out interview with comments All the latest Movie News By Lee Whiteside about the 120-degree by Lee Whiteside weather and the good Three Star Trek Legends Pass Away fortune he had that he Gamers Corner By Shane Shellenbarger didn’t arrive in summer New and Reviews from when it is actually hot. A the gaming world An Amercan in Australia requirement of the by Jeffrey Lu interview was that we see Screening Room WALL-E beforehand so Reviews of current theatrical releases Plus there may be minor © Robert LaPierre CASFS Business Report spoilers in this interview, Pre-Con News if you haven’t seen the movie I suggest the most robotic of the all the robots. We Tidbits about upcoming conventions FYI you do so before you read this. just embraced it and said you know News and tidbits of interest to fans what? It’s an homage. ConClusion Question: Is Auto-Pilot intentionally News and Reviews Club Listings reminiscent of Hal-9000? Q: What is a typical day like for you on of SF/F conventions Andrew Stanton: Yes, we didn’t like the set of a movie like WALL-E? Convention List & purposefully try to do it. I mean when you A: Well our set is sadly boring, (It is) a In Our Book Generic Registration Form watch the DVD you will see all the lot of offices. But it is very similar to Reviews of New SF/F Books different iterations Auto went through and what you would do on a live-action set eventually we ended up with a captain’s just kind of spread out over time. I have Musty Tomes CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT wheel and when we realized we needed to 200 people ultimately that I work with, Reviews of Classic Genre books give it some sort of an eye, because of the 200 artists. I don’t talk to computers, I http://www.casfs.org/ConNotations/ circular (nature of the wheel) it just gave don’t direct computers, I direct people. us (a) bulls-eye, someone said you know And they all have jobs that are similar to FOR UP TO DATE INFO AND MOVIE it’s like Hal, you know what it’s actually live-action set-up. I’ve got a cinematog- REVIEWS BETWEEN ISSUES helping the cold clinical, he needs to be ( Continued on page 6 ) ConNotations Non-Profit Org. 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