| Michael Bay on Transformers!
Q: I know my colleagues are going to have "Transformers" questions, but I wanted to know your reaction to "Hot Fuzz" which was so inspired by "Bad Boys 2," and that you said that you were offered "Die Hard 4" and I was wondering if this hadn't come together would you have considered doing that? Bay: "Die Hard 4," no, I don't think so. "Hot Fuzz," I haven't seen it yet, because I was finishing this movie. It's really hard, the end of your post schedule is such a grind, seeing a movie is like the last thing you want to do when you go home. I thought this would be an easy post, on our budget we had a hiatus scheduled in here, because I said, "Oh, my God, I have the longest post schedule," I didn't think the robots would be that hard, but I was directing them all the way to the very end. Q: How did you balance the needs of your vision as a filmmaker with those of Spielberg and those of the fans? I noticed that there are definitely some Spielberg elements to this film.
The Daddying Movement
I propose naming this revolution the daddying movement. I coined the term daddying more than a decade ago to describe the active, involved exuberance of my parenting, and the parenting of other men I knew. “Fatherhood" seemed passive and dull, flat and one-dimensional; its gerund, “fathering," suggested a one-time biological act, requiring no greater commitment than a bit of DNA. “Daddying" conveyed the sense of the lifelong process that I relished as I embraced my responsibilities for my children's well-being: physical, emotional, social, intellectual, creative, moral and spiritual. Becoming a parent changes one's identity instantly and forever. This new word not only captures that fundamental change, but also embodies the realization that fathers matterin their presence as well as their absence.
One Native Life
I fell in love when I was 7. I mean really and truly in love. It was the kind of rapturous love that changes the lighting in your world and makes everything sharper, clearer, like it never existed in quite that way before, or ever will again. Some people call it ''puppy love'' to make light of it, but I've come to know enough of dogs in my time to know that puppies love truly and unconditionally. And it's true for human puppies, too.
Her name was Wilhemina Draper, and everyone called her Billie. Billie Draper was the most popular kid in our class. She had brownish-blonde hair cut in a bob and big blue eyes that sparkled when she laughed, which was all tinkly and musical. I was awed by her. She could outrun everyone and she learned how to skin-the-cat on the monkey bars before any of the boys would even try it.
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