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Big, hairy bugs are a sure-fire way to grab a film audience. B-movie directors learned that long ago. National Geographic documentary producers have made careers out of it. Now, a team of OMNIMAX producers has brought the Big Bug Theory of filmmaking to the big-screen format. "Tropical Rainforest," now at the Reuben H.

Big, hairy bugs are a sure-fire way to grab a film audience. B-movie directors learned that long ago. National Geographic documentary producers have made careers out of it. Now, a team of OMNIMAX producers has brought the Big Bug Theory of filmmaking to the big-screen format. "Tropical Rainforest," now at the Reuben H.

Dissident shareholder Ed Schmidt claims he has 153,078 revocable proxies ready to vote at Crown Bancorp's Aug. 1 annual meeting. That's about 24% of Crown's outstanding shares. Schmidt disclosed the number Thursday during a deposition for Crown's lawsuit against him, charging that he has illegally obtained the proxies.

Lester Novros, Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker who pioneered large-format film technology, helped the world visualize outer space and worked on such innovative motion pictures as "2001: A Space Odyssey," has died at the age of 91. Novros, a much-loved USC film professor whose students included George Lucas, died Sept. 10 in Sherman Oaks.