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Article: What's Up, Doc?
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- The Irish Times
- Article date:
- October 2, 2009
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FILM: SO, at just 41 years old, Pete Docter, a key force in Pixar
Studios, is the recipient of a lifetime achievement award from the
Venice film festival, writes DONALD CLARKE
What's that all about? Certain hard-working film journalists,
despite being a year or two older than that, still think themselves
in the prime of life.
Still, if you add up the ages of the joint honourees - Andrew
Stanton, Brad Bird, Lee Unkrich and Pixar supremo John Lasseter also
got gongs - then you get a total of 230. That's all right then.
"Yeah that was a lot of fun," Docter says in his unhurried way.
"It was so cool that John was willing to share the honour with us.
We were there on the carpet and people were ...