Thursday, February 10, 2011

IF YOU BUILD IT THEY WILL COME, AND WORK, AND SPEND:

Massachusetts-made movies burst onto the national scene in a big way, garnering a record-setting sixteen Academy Award nominations last month. One of the other nominated pictures, TOY STORY 3, could not be made here in the Bay State. And yet it wasn't made in Hollywood either. This latest installment in Pixar's fabulously successful franchise has been an economic boon for more than 15 years to (of all places) the city of San Francisco. To paraphrase the Cowardly Lion, "What do they got, that we ain't got?" At least not yet. Take a look: