Whether or not that's the answer to the planet's current problems, director Brad Bird deserves praise for packing such big ideas into such an accessible, rip-roaring, retro-futurist adventure.
So when Alien 3 came along in 1992, scarred by scripting problems, director's chair changes and featuring no guns whatsoever in opposition to just a single alien, people got pissed.
And, at a meeting in September, in which the board discussed a series of problems, directors reiterated their support for Mr. Dimon's approach with the government, according to people briefed on the meeting.
The problem: director Josie Rourke's version lacks a sense of menace evident in earlier productions.
That deadpan exchange points to the fundamental problem directors face in teleporting "Miss Julie" into the United States of the 21st (or 20th century): The divisions between classes are far more porous, despite the current focus on the widening gap between rich and poor in America.
The No. 1 problem directors identified was lack of funding for salaries and other financial incentives, such as bonuses.
Like a high school counselor with a bucket load of empathy but too few concrete solutions to problems, the director Stafford Arima appears to be specializing in taking troubled teen-angst musicals and trying to smooth out their kinks.
"On a trip to Baltimore, one of our young women, 16 years old, came down with severe dental problems," Mike McIntosh, director of the McIntosh Foundation, wrote to us in an email.
After his dismissal, partisans for and against him agreed that, whatever else had bedeviled Mr. Hightower, one of his biggest problems as director of the museum had been the confrontational spirit of the period in which he served.
"Peace is not a bad thing, but it's unlikely to solve our problems," says Director of Panama's Border Police, Frank Abrego.
The problems with director Rob Ashford's tepid staging of Williams' saga of avarice, mendacity, and betrayal on a Mississippi cotton plantation, circa 1955, come early.
