Alexander Stuart

Photograph: Alexander Chow-Stuart. On Friday, December 9, 2011, we enjoyed a most wonderful tour of Pixar Studios , arranged by my good friend, independent producer and ex-head of 20th Century-Fox, Bill Mechanic. We had lunch with one of Pixar's writers, Simon Rich , whose credits include four years at Saturday Night Live and several of his own novels, including the recently optioned, Elliot Allagash. Simon was not only fascinating to talk to about writing for Pixar , but showed a genuine interest in talking to our seven year old son, Hudson, about his own forays into animation...and Hudson's love of The New Yorker for its covers and its cartoons, not to mention Hudson's absolute passion for Andrew Stanton's /Pixar's WALL-E, his favorite film of all time, and the one that has done most, in its truly wondrous, extraordinarily moving and breathtaking way, to shape his view of the world and the cosmos. We were then treated to an incredibly illuminating (to ri