Ang Lee "Taking Woodstock" was "Life of Pi", which was adapted from the novel of the same name written by Yann Martel. The story was a retrospective first-person narrative from Pi, a then 16-year-old boy from India, who is the only human to survive the sinking of a freighter on the way from India to Canada. He finds himself on a lifeboat with an orangutan, a hyena, a wounded zebra and a Bengal tiger. During this unlikely journey, young Pi questions his belief in God and the meaning of life. The novel was once considered impossible to make into a movie, but
Richard Parker (economist) Richard Parker (economist) Richard Parker (born November 5, 1946) is an economist from the United States. He is a graduate of Dartmouth College and the University of Oxford, and has worked for the United Nations Development Programme. Parker co-founded "Mother Jones" magazine and is on the editorial board of "The Nation". He wrote the books "The Myth of the Middle Class", "Mixed Signals: the Future of Global Television News", and "John Kenneth Galbraith: His Life, His Politics, His Economics". Parker has held Marshall, Rockefeller, Danforth, Goldsmith, and Bank of America fellowships; and is lecturer in public policy and senior fellow