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chakram-refugees-digest    Saturday, March 20 2004    Volume 04 : Number 079



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  [chakram-refugees] Ngila Dickson article                [KLOSSNER9@aol.com]

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Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 22:14:10 EST
From: KLOSSNER9@aol.com
Subject: [chakram-refugees] Ngila Dickson article

Not surprisingly, the Los Angeles Times has perhaps the best coverage
of the film industry of any daily paper.  The Feb. 29, 2004 LA Times,
just before the Oscars were announced, had an article on Ngila Dickson,
in the Sunday Calendar section, p. E12.  Titled "The Battle of the Epics"
by Mimi Avins.

It was mostly about LOTR and The Last Samurai.  It had a few interesting
things.  

Her name is pronounced NIE-la.  

Ed Zwick, director of The Last Samurai, said, "Ngila is the least pretentious 
person I know.  New Zealand is a very modest culture, and she is that way."

The article said--
"Dicksn got her start as a clothing designer, than started a fashion magazine
and did styling for commercials and music videos.  Nearly five years 
designing costumes for the syndicated series "Xena: Warrior Princess"
and "Hercules" served as her rough-and-ready postgraduate school, New
Zealand-style.  The shows were shot on alternate 10-day turn-arounds,
and as many as 100 costumes were required for an episode.  A foreigner 
on location in New Zealand might have been frustrated by the lack of 
resources.  Dickson is used to that and even sees a positive side.  "You
know you'll make every single thing from scratch," she says.  "In a sense,
that gives you an enormous amount of control."

The article also has a picture of Dickson, something I had never seen.

Boeotian
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