Magic! Harry Potter studio tour opens near London

FILE - This is a Thursday, March 1, 2012 file photo of a model of Hogwarts Castle from the Harry Potter film series is unveiled at the Warner Bros Studio Tour, Watford,England. A monumental model of the school for young witches and wizards is part of "The Making of Harry Potter," a studio tour based at the Warner Bros. facility near London where the eight movies were shot between 2000 and 2010. (AP Photo/Jonathan Short. File)

FILE - This is a Thursday, March 1, 2012 file photo of a model of Hogwarts Castle from the Harry Potter film series is unveiled at the Warner Bros Studio Tour, Watford,England. A monumental model of the school for young witches and wizards is part of "The Making of Harry Potter," a studio tour based at the Warner Bros. facility near London where the eight movies were shot between 2000 and 2010. (AP Photo/Jonathan Short. File)

FILE - This is a Thursday, March 1, 2012 file photo of a model of Hogwarts Castle from the Harry Potter film series is unveiled at the Warner Bros Studio Tour, Watford, London. A monumental model of the school for young witches and wizards is part of "The Making of Harry Potter," a studio tour based at the Warner Bros. facility near London where the eight movies were shot between 2000 and 2010. (AP Photo/Jonathan Short, File)

FILE - This is a Monday, Dec. 19, 2011 file photo of Diagon Alley, at the Warner Brother Studios, Watford England. Diagon Alley is part of "The Making of Harry Potter," a studio tour based at the Warner Bros. facility near London where the eight movies were shot between 2000 and 2010. (AP Photo/Jonathan Short, File)

WATFORD, England (AP) ? Hogwarts Castle is ready to welcome the Muggle multitudes.

Here, on a film studio sound stage near London, stands the real Hogwarts ? or at least a monumental model of the fictional wizarding school, the very one used in the eight "Harry Potter" movies.

The minutely detailed castle now forms the climax of "The Making of Harry Potter," a behind-the-scenes studio tour based at the Warner Bros.' facility where the films were made between 2000 and 2010.

It may only be a model, but for Potter fans it's already a place of pilgrimage.

"I had to literally stand there for 10 minutes and just absorb it," said Cee Anatole, who works for a fan website and had a preview ahead of Saturday's grand opening. "The attention to detail ? it was just amazing."

Warner Bros. hopes the general public will be equally enthusiastic. The studio expects 5,000 people a day to visit the attraction, which is selling itself on its authenticity ? it features real sets, models, props and costumes from the films, on the original studio site.

The first, and most spectacular, set visitors encounter is the Great Hall of Hogwarts school, complete with stone floor, Gothic arches, gargoyles and huge fireplace. Later come the dormitory where the young wizard slept, the office of headmaster Albus Dumbledore, the giant Hagrid's Hut and Diagon Alley, the magical shopping street that's home to Ollivander's wand shop and Weasley's Wizard Wheezes.

The tour is an almost overwhelming feast of detail. Displays range from Mrs. Weasley's self-knitting sweater to boxes of Cheery Owls cereal, potions bottles filled with plastic newts and real animal bones and 17,000 individually painted wand boxes.

It's nirvana for Potter fans ? and for film geeks, who can watch designers talk about their work in short films, ride a broomstick in the green-screen effects room and see how makeup, prosthetics and animatronics brought hundreds of magical creatures to life.

The goal is to pay tribute to the hundreds of unsung technicians and craftspeople who reinvented author J.K. Rowling's magical universe for the big screen.

"There's so much work that you couldn't see, so much work that just became part of the film," said David Heyman, a producer on all the Potter films.

"This is a tour for Harry Potter fans, but it's also a tour for people who are not necessarily Harry Potter fans," he said. "It's such a good insight into the making of a film ... basically a how-to."

Warner Bros. is clearly proud of its new attraction. One of the creators' few regrets is that trains to Watford, which will carry many of the site's visitors, leave from London's Euston station, rather than nearby King's Cross, whose imaginary platform 9 3/4 was the terminus of the Hogwarts Express. Rearranging the railways is beyond even Harry Potter's powers.

The attraction is part of Warner Bros.' 100 million pound ($160 million) redevelopment of Leavesden Studios, a former World War II airdrome 20 miles (30 kilometers) northwest of London, into Europe's largest filmmaking complex.

In addition to the tour, the working studio due to open later this year will have sound stages, workshops, offices and the biggest backlot in Europe, and make Warner Bros.' the only U.S. studio with a permanent base in Britain.

Those who worked on the film say the transformation is remarkable.

"What is different and strange is that the roof is not leaking," said David Yates, who directed the final four Potter films. "And it's not dusty, it's not drafty and it's not cold. We literally were working in big sheds."

Warner Bros. is not estimating the lifespan of the attraction, which employs about 300 people, including a horde of Potter fans working as enthusiastic tour guides. But it says Pottermania shows no signs of waning.

Initial reviews have been largely positive, though some have questioned the admission price ? 28 pounds ($45) for adults and 21 pounds ($34) for children five and over. Children under 5 go free. Warner Bros. says the charges are "in line with other major attractions in the U.K. and around the world."

The attraction has already won over an important group of fans: the cast.

"I found it quite moving, actually, coming back," said Rupert Grint, who played Harry's best friend, Ron Weasley. "I sometimes had to remind myself that we weren't doing a scene, because it's so authentic.

"This is a special place for me. I basically grew up here, went to school here. It's just nice to be able to share it with everyone."

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Online: http://www.wbstudiotour.co.uk

Jill Lawless can be reached at: http://twitter.com/JillLawless

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Learning best when you rest: Sleeping after processing new info most effective, new study shows

Learning best when you rest: Sleeping after processing new info most effective, new study shows

Saturday, March 24, 2012

Nodding off in class may not be such a bad idea after all. New research from the University of Notre Dame shows that going to sleep shortly after learning new material is most beneficial for recall,

Titled "Memory for Semantically Related and Unrelated Declarative Information: The Benefit of Sleep, the Cost of Wake," the study was published March 22 in PLOS One.

Notre Dame Psychologist Jessica Payne and colleagues studied 207 students who habitually slept for at least six hours per night. Participants were randomly assigned to study declarative, semantically related or unrelated word pairs at 9:00 a.m. or 9:00 p.m., and returned for testing 30 minutes, 12 hours or 24 hours later. Declarative memory refers to the ability to consciously remember facts and events, and can be broken down into episodic memory (memory for events) and semantic memory (memory for facts about the world). People routinely use both types of memory every day ? recalling where we parked today or learning how a colleague prefers to be addressed.

At the 12-hour retest, memory overall was superior following a night of sleep compared to a day of wakefulness. However, this performance difference was a result of a pronounced deterioration in memory for unrelated word pairs; there was no sleep-wake difference for related word pairs. At the 24-hour retest, with all subjects having received both a full night of sleep and a full day of wakefulness, subjects' memories were superior when sleep occurred shortly after learning, rather than following a full day of wakefulness.

"Our study confirms that sleeping directly after learning something new is beneficial for memory. What's novel about this study is that we tried to shine light on sleep's influence on both types of declarative memory by studying semantically unrelated and related word pairs," Payne says.

"Since we found that sleeping soon after learning benefited both types of memory, this means that it would be a good thing to rehearse any information you need to remember just prior to going to bed. In some sense, you may be 'telling' the sleeping brain what to consolidate."

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Move over Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings, with thankfully some Truman Show and even Network thrown in. We are talking about the highly anticipated and much hyped film version of the first of three popular novels by Suzanne Collins: The Hunger Games (PG-13). This series sparked young people to read, and hats off to that!

The film, directed by Gary Ross, takes us deep into the tale. This is the future, and a television reality show is a very hot ticket, especially because it presents teens chosen by lottery to fight each other to the death. In this ultimate gladiator-meets-survivor show, flamboyant Stanley Tucci is the host as we root for brave 16-year old Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence). The intense Woody Harrelson hopes to mentor her to success, one plot intermingling with a teen love story.

What makes it all work is the attention to the parallels and parody of our own reality show culture, though Cheyevsky?s Network had the idea of killing for TV ratings in 1976. This time it?s teens, and the sappy love story is not in the way of the intelligence and action.

There is brutality, violence, but not as graphic as expected. Not for under twelve, but good luck trying to stop them. Three hats..

DVD/Pay-Per-View Releases:
?My Week with Marilyn,? ?The Descendants,? ?Tinker Taylor Soldier Spy,? ?The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo,? ?Hugo,? and ?The Adventures of Tintin.?

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Does the new iPad have an Overheating Problem?

Electronics are known for getting warm during extended periods of use, but the new iPad may be too hot to handle. Since the newest version of the tablet went on sale last week, owners have flooded the Apple boards with complaints that the back of the device gets so warm to the touch that it gets uncomfortable, particularly in the lower-left corner of the tablet while holding it in Portrait Mode.

Research by Consumer Reports appears to bear this out. Using a thermal-imaging camera, Consumer Reports engineers recorded temperatures as high as 116 degrees Fahrenheit -- up to 13 degrees higher than the iPad 2 -- on the new iPad while playing a video game, Infinity Blade II.

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1. 3 beds, 2.0 baths

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   Year built: 1921

   Parking spots: 4

   Days on market: 2

2. 3 beds, 2.5 baths

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   Year built: 2012

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3. 4 beds, 3 full baths

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   Year built: 1954

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4. 2 beds, 1 full bath

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   Lot size: 4,803 sq ft

   Year built: 1923

   Parking spots: 1

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5. 2 beds, 1 full bath

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   Year built: 1928

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   Year built: 1937

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10. 2 beds, 2 full baths

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    Year built: 2010

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12. 3 beds, 2.0 baths

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    Year built: 2012

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13. 2 beds, 1 full bath

    Home size: 980 sq ft

    Lot size: 1.43 ac

    Year built: 1947

    Parking spots: 1

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14. 3 beds, 1 full bath

    Home size: 1,088 sq ft

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    Year built: 1923

    Days on market: 25

15. 2 beds, 2 full baths

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    Year built: 1938

    Parking spots: 1

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16. 4 beds, 2.5 baths

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    Year built: 1964

    Parking spots: 2

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    Year built: 1923

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    Year built: 1948

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High Rock Themes ? Mortgage Refinance Information

If we are in the process of refinancing the lending you may get the procedure confusing and daunting. Nobody likes to overpay for their purchases and the home loan is no exception. Here are many ideas to enable we refinance the lending without paying too much.

Before we start comparison searching for a new lender it is very value work to request copies of your credit reports to check for errors wholesale mortgage . Your overall credit score is what lenders consider whenever determining the lending rate; in the event you have errors or damaging info in the history of credit it may cost a high interest rate. The credit records are maintained by 3 individual reporting agencies which dont share info well; you should request a credit report from every agency and carefully check it for errors.

There are 3 companies we need to request records from. These credit agencies are Trans Union, Equifax, and Experian. Its all to easy to request these records and free; congress recently passed a statute stating these agencies must provide we one complimentary credit report every year. The website we need to see to download the history of credit is annualcreditreport.com.

Once youve reviewed the credit records and are confident they are error complimentary youre ready to being comparing financing has. Selecting the best lender is an significant part of refinancing and there are many kinds of lenders we need to eliminate. The three kinds of lending lenders are banks, broker-banks, and wholesale lenders. You should never consider refinancing with the bank due to loopholes in the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act; nevertheless, Ill cover banks and broker-banks thorough later in this informative article.

Refinancing the lending with a wholesale lending lender will offer the hottest deal for the money; the query becomes how can we go about acquiring a wholesale lender? Because the average homeowner could not have access to wholesale lenders youll need to employ a broker to refinance with wholesale lending rates. Refinancing with a lending broker has countless advantages; although youll need to watch the broker like a hawk to eliminate paying too much.

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NBC Politics - Senate passes small business investment bill

By The Associated Press

Legislation to help startup companies raise capital by reducing some federal regulations has easily passed the Senate despite warnings from some Democrats that less government oversight would mean more abuse and scams.

Related: House votes to repeal key 'Obamacare' provision?

President Barack Obama supports the measure, which stands to be one of few bipartisan bills to pass Congress during this politically contentious election year.

Democrats pushed through an amendment designed to increase investor protections, so the legislation will still require either another House vote or House-Senate negotiations. The House passed the measure two weeks ago on a 390-23 vote. All 26 negative votes in the Senate came from Democrats.

Recommended: Obama, on site, praises development of portion of oil pipeline?

The legislation combines six smaller bills that change Securities and Exchange Commission rules so small businesses can attract investors and go public with less red tape and cost.

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Apps could be overtaking the Web, says report

13 min.

Suzanne Choney

An app for weather. An app for banking. An app for news, for sports, for games, for travel, for department stores, for insurance companies, for ?.wait: Who needs the Web?

As more of us turn our lives over to apps, or programs, that we download onto our smartphones, tablets, and now some TVs, our reliance on the Web itself is changing, says a new report on the future of the Web from Pew Research Center?s Internet & American Life Project and the Imagining the Internet Center at Elon University.

This change is not only a shift in how we're getting our information -- on smaller, more mobile devices -- but a change in the way we've been sharing information in the last 15 to 20 years, via the Web. Pew and Elon University interviewed more than 1,000 tech experts and critics from the public and private sector, as well as from universities and think tanks about what the Web will look like in the year 2020. ?And for some, the rise of the app is diminishing the Web as we know it.

?Apps are like cable channels ? closed, proprietary, and cleaned-up experiences," Susan Crawford, former White House technology adviser, and now a professor at Harvard, said in the report.

"I don?t want the world of the Web to end like this. But it will, because people?s expectations have been shaped by companies that view them as consumers. Those giant interests will push every button they can: fear, inexperience, passivity, and willingness to be entertained. And we?ll get a cleaned-up world that we can be perfectly billed for. It?s not good."

A kind of tipping point may have been reached last June, Pew said, when researchers reported the amount of time Americans "spent on apps began to outpace the time spent on the desktop or mobile Web," an average of 81 minutes a day with apps compared to 74 minutes a day on the Web.?

By December, the gap was even wider: 72 minutes a day on the Web compared to 94 minutes a day with apps, according to comScore, Alexa and Flurry Analytics.

Along those lines, "the boom in mobile connectivity has been accompanied by a boom in innovation and sales" of apps, Pew said.Earlier this month, Apple announced 25 billion apps have been downloaded since it opened its App Store in 2008, which made it easy, inexpensive and fast to download programs tailored to a user's interests onto their mobile devices.?

Google's Android Market, recently renamed Google Play, reached 10 billion downloads by last December, Pew said, "and users have been downloading apps at a rate of 1 billion a month."

Jeffrey Alexander, a senior technology analyst at SRI International, said the Web "will come to resemble a segment within the 'app economy' more than the reverse. The current incarnation of the Web will continue to be important for certain kinds of human-computer interaction, particularly those that require sustained attention and a richer media experience."

"The trends are quite clear," said Pew. "Mobile tools such as smartphones, tablets, netbooks and laptop computers are now a primary source of Internet connectivity in highly developed nations, and the uptake of technology tools in less-developed regions of the world has also been dominated by small, wireless devices. The latest surveys of American adults by the Pew Research Center?s Internet & American Life Project show that nearly two-thirds connect to the Web via a smartphone, tablet computer, or an on-the-go laptop computer."

Despite the trend, 59 percent of Pew and Elon University's respondents agree with this statement that by 2020, the Web will be "stronger than ever in users' lives," a place where "most people do most of their work, play, communication, and content creation."

Another 35 percent agreed that eight years from now, "most people will prefer to use specific applications (apps) accessible by Internet connection to accomplish most online work, play, communication, and content creation. The ease of use and perceived security and quality-assurance characteristics of apps will be seen as superior when compared with the open Web."

Six percent did not respond to the question at all.

The Web's open nature, its importance as a means of communication and a marketplace of ideas, will win out, said?Jerry Michalski, a consultant at the Institute for the Future, in the report.

"The gated bubble worlds formed by app markets, Facebook, and other private spaces will bloom and fade, while people will keep gathering in the open spaces," he said.

But there's no question, concerns are there.

"I wish it weren?t true, but the history of enclosure, centralization, and consolidation makes me very pessimistic about the open Web winning over the closed apps," said Seth Finkelstein, a civil libertarian programmer, and past winner of the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Pioneer Award, in the report.?

"There will always be a Web, but it may end up like the imagery of a person standing on a soapbox, referred to more for its romantic symbolism than mattering in reality."

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'Losing Control' In The Movies

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You're listening to SCIENCE FRIDAY. I'm Ira Flatow. Can a science experiment find you the right mate? A new romantic comedy film opens in New York today. It's called "Losing Control." And the main character is a scientist, Samantha, played by Miranda Kent. She is working on her Ph.D. at Harvard, and she's also trying out sort of her love life at the same time. But unlike the stereotypical scientists we see in movies or on TV, Samantha isn't - she's not one of these super nerds with the dorky glasses, the frizzy hair.

She's a regular person, maybe a tiny bit quirky, but who isn't, right? So how did that happen? Is Hollywood finally getting the message that scientists can be smart and sexy, or maybe it takes a scientist to make a movie that doesn't rely on stereotypes. Joining me now to talk more about the film "Losing Control" is Valerie Weiss. She wrote, directed and produced the film. And she's - and we have a clip of it that we're going to listen to right now.

(SOUNDBITE OF MOVIE, "LOSING CONTROL")

UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN: (as character) You are going to break your neck.

TRUE BELLA PINCI: (as Little Samantha) No, I'm not. The centrifugal force keeps us from falling off.

UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN: (as character) Sam.

PINCI: (as Little Samantha) My mom doesn't understand science, or she'd know that the equilibrium force of us holding onto each other balances the outward force that makes us feel like we're falling off. Wheeee.

UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN: (as character) I'm having a heart attack.

PINCI: (as Little Samantha) Don't worry. It's science. It always works.

MIRANDA KENT: (as Samantha) Well, at least, it used to.

FLATOW: That was a great segue from the kids to the rotating little - what was that?

VALERIE WEISS: Sort of centrifuge...

FLATOW: Centrifuge.

WEISS: ...a roundabout centrifuge.

FLATOW: Round - that was - tell us about the plot of the movie.

WEISS: Well, really, I just wanted to make a movie about a centrifuge because I've never seen a centrifuge in a movie before.

(SOUNDBITE OF LAUGHTER)

WEISS: So, as you said, it's a quirky romantic comedy about a female scientist who wants proof that her boyfriend is the one.

FLATOW: Yeah. So she does a science experiment with her boyfriend.

WEISS: Exactly. She spends so much time in the lab doing experiments that it just seems second nature to answer her life questions that way as well.

FLATOW: And this is a movie that stars a female scientist in the main role. She's working at a Ph.D. in Harvard. You have a Ph.D. from Harvard. A little bit of a coincidence?

(SOUNDBITE OF LAUGHTER)

WEISS: Well, they say right, you know, and after six years getting a Ph.D., I know it really well.

FLATOW: But you were not a - you never became a scientist, did you?

WEISS: Well, I mean, it depends what you mean. I've been doing science since I was 14, working in labs. And, you know, I did a whole Ph.D. in X-ray crystallography. So I definitely, you know, consider myself a scientist. But I didn't work at it after my Ph.D.

FLATOW: Right.

WEISS: I made my first movie while I was writing my Ph.D. And two weeks after we wrapped, I defended my thesis and never did another experiment again.

FLATOW: What was the tug to the theatre side?

WEISS: You know, I think I'm attracted to both fields because I love to know why things are the way they are. And, you know, relationships or a theatre gets at, you know, relationships and personalities and, you know, social aspects of our lives. And then, you know, I discovered science in 10th grade because I had a great biology teacher, Mr. Charambura, and...

FLATOW: There's always somebody, isn't there? That gets you...

WEISS: You know, science teachers are so important. Someone has to really, like, introduce you to it because it's not necessarily immediately accessible in our culture and - except for shows like yours. And, you know, then I realized that's another way to ask why, and I could get down to the molecular level of why things are the way they are. So that's really the tug for both fields.

FLATOW: 1-800-989-8255 is our number. We're talking with Valerie Weiss, writer, director and producer of "Losing Control." That opens in New York today. A little nervous?

WEISS: Sure. And we've been in festivals for a year. We've screened in 30 film festivals, and we screened for the National Academy of Sciences. So I know audiences love it. So that's - that takes some of the nerves away but...

FLATOW: Did you get support from the science community on this?

WEISS: We got amazing support. A company called VWR - that scientists will know because they furnish everything in your lab - and Eppendorf and Corning and a whole list of other companies were amazing. They filled our - we had a lab from Zencore in Los Angeles that let us shoot for free.

FLATOW: In their lab?

WEISS: In their lab.

FLATOW: Because it looks like a real lab.

WEISS: Thank you. It's so important to me to have authenticity in this movie. And they gave us an empty lab because, of course, they didn't want us messing with experiments. And it was great, except we had to fill it on no budget. So these companies donated equipment to us for free. It was amazing.

FLATOW: How did you decide on the character, the lead character, the scientist - what she would - her character be, not the nerdy kind of science person you might see on the "Big Bang Theory," right?

WEISS: Yeah. Well, you know, like I said, authenticity was so important, and I was lucky enough to have access to this world because it was my life...

FLATOW: Right.

WEISS: ...for six years. And, you know, I just based her on myself and my friends, and she, you know, my class was actually 50 percent women. And the women weren't like the stereotypes you see in movies. They were real and vulnerable and had boyfriends and lovers. And, you know, I just wanted people to get to see that. And so really I just, you know, based it on my own experiences.

FLATOW: And did you - the plot, was that based on your own experience?

(SOUNDBITE OF LAUGHTER)

WEISS: It's definitely exaggerated. My favorite filmmaker is Pedro Almodovar in a movie called "Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown," was a huge inspiration for me. And I love that sort of zany, absurdist comedy, so you know, things are embellished, but there's a kernel of truth to everything, and the science is 100 percent accurate in the movie.

FLATOW: 1-800-989-8255 is our number if you'd like to talk about the movie "Losing Control" with Valerie Weiss. You say the science is 100 percent accurate.

WEISS: Yeah. There's one scene maybe we fudged a little. But towards the end...

FLATOW: Yeah? I bet you I know what that is.

(SOUNDBITE OF LAUGHTER)

WEISS: Don't give it away. Don't give it away. Yeah. Well, I'm not...

FLATOW: 'Cause I thought...

WEISS: ...I'm not a physicist. I'm a biophysicist.

FLATOW: I thought, this can't happen.

(SOUNDBITE OF LAUGHTER)

WEISS: Maybe in an alternate universe...

FLATOW: I won't give it away, but we all - all of us who've seen the movie say there's a little bit of fudging going on in this spot...

WEISS: Yeah. But it was too good not to put it in. It made me laugh too hard.

(SOUNDBITE OF LAUGHTER)

FLATOW: Did you have to teach the actors how to do the pipetting and all that kind of stuff?

WEISS: You know, we did. We spent so much time, 'cause, again, it was so important to me. We had science consultants from UCLA and Xencor. Actually, my actors who play scientists, they came to the lab, they ran a gel, they pipetted. They did everything. They spent a whole day learning. They went to lab meetings. They actually spent probably a week of intensive training, and they were amazing. I think they're really convincing.

FLATOW: How much of the science did you feel you needed to dumb down?

WEISS: No, nothing. I didn't dumb down a thing because I think if you understand science, you can explain it well. And I know Alan Alda is going to talk about that, and I took a workshop with him about communicating science. And I think, you know, it's a matter of A) finding what's personal about it, B) understanding yourself, and C) connecting with your audience. So the only thing we did was find visual ways to explain the same concept. So you know, the scene where she's at a party and she uses elements on the bar to explain her research with, you know, X and Y chromosomes and, you know, audiences get it. It's so rewarding.

FLATOW: Yeah. Yeah, they want as much science as you can give them.

WEISS: Yeah. Oh, yeah. They're just begging for more.

FLATOW: It was something out of...

WEISS: Not sex, it's science. Give us more science.

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FLATOW: There you have it. That was sort of a scene out of "A Beautiful Mind," like they were in a bar, and they were also in another bar.

WEISS: Yeah. Absolutely. It's...

FLATOW: Did you have that in mind at all, the other great scenes in films that were...

WEISS: You know...

FLATOW: ...that you would become part of the lore of...

WEISS: Yeah. You know, I mean, we have some pretty memorable lab scenes we're hoping would go into the great canon of science movies for what we put in there.

FLATOW: All right. Let's take a phone call or two, from Christine in Durham, North Carolina. Hi, Christine.

CHRISTINE: Hi. I'm so disappointed by this movie. I'm a graduate student at Duke, and we've struggled so long to not - I guess the main thing is, is not to sexualize women, especially in science. I mean the documentary "Misrepresentation" just talks about that.

FLATOW: Have you seen - Christine, have you seen...

CHRISTINE: Do we ever hear about a male scientist...

FLATOW: Christine, have you seen the movie? Christine?

CHRISTINE: I haven't. But based on the conversation, I mean, explaining science on a bar - I mean, Ira, you - I enjoy your show, but you got so excited about equating sex and women in science. It's just so disappointing and disgusting. It really is.

FLATOW: Well, OK.

WEISS: Christine, you need to see the movie, because I don't think you'll be disappointed. I think what you'll see is it's the first time a full picture of a real woman is presented, because her brain is absolutely there, and she's an emotional, breathing, real person, and I think you'll actually be very happy when you see it. Check out the trailer at losingcontrolmovie.com. It'll give you a really good taste for it.

CHRISTINE: But you've mentioned sexiness in science four times. Why does that...

WEISS: I also mentioned her research at Harvard, her PhD, the X and Y chromosome. You really should take a look.

CHRISTINE: Yeah, but we all know the history about sexism and women in science. I mean, all of that kind of effort kind of negates what we're trying to achieve.

WEISS: Yeah, I don't think it will. I think you need to take a look, as a good scientist, to do your research before drawing conclusions.

FLATOW: 1-800-989-8255. How many places will this be opening at?

WEISS: We're starting in six cities. We're starting in New York.

FLATOW: If she wants to go see it...

WEISS: Yeah. Well, now we have to go to Durham for sure.

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WEISS: We are starting in New York, then we go to Boston. And actually, this is out of chronological order, but we go to Boston, April 6, at Kendall Square Cinema. We're really excited to - for our hometown screening. And in Los Angeles, we open April 13 at the Laemmle Theater, and we're going to be in Sacramento and Tempe and Tacoma, and that's just the start. All these places are chains. So we're hoping to expand across the country if we have your support and you come out and see the film.

FLATOW: You must have a sequel or another movie...

WEISS: Oh, we have a TV show, actually...

FLATOW: A TV show.

WEISS: ...in the works. Yeah. We think this is a great episodic story where there's a whole other element that's happening in the lab besides her love life. And we're going to sort of make it an Ally McBeal-ish sort of episodic thing.

FLATOW: Interesting. You know, do you ever hear of Leon Lederman? He was a - he's still a physicist. He spent decades going to Hollywood trying to convince Norman Lear and people like that who are very big TV producers to do a TV series based in a laboratory someplace.

WEISS: Somebody told me this story. This was...

FLATOW: Yeah.

WEISS: ...a long time ago, right?

FLATOW: Oh, this is - yeah. Well, I'm old enough to remember 'cause I actually...

WEISS: Who told me this? I think...

FLATOW: I've known Leon forever so...

WEISS: Maybe Joe Palca told - somebody told me the story.

FLATOW: Maybe Joe Palca. Could be.

WEISS: But I think...

FLATOW: And so if you can pull that off, you know ? what the modern version of it, of course, is "CSI."

WEISS: Right.

FLATOW: They got their lab, but they had to disguise it...

WEISS: Right. Well, I think the character-driven element needs to be in there. And, you know, before we made this movie, they said the same thing, like, nobody wants to see scientists and nobody, you know, we have to dumb down the science. And they told me science wasn't visual, which I take huge issue with because it's a very visual movie, ad we found lots of ways to show the science.

FLATOW: Who were the they that told you these things, the producers?

WEISS: You know, just different people.

FLATOW: The industry?

WEISS: Industry a little bit. You know, we met with people who really wanted the movie to be about a scientist who created a potion to find the right man. And, you know, it's like, you know, science is advanced enough. We understand it enough. We can use real science to explore this question. We don't need to make it up.

FLATOW: Well, we wish you good luck and - in your opening. And, you know, we talk a lot about science and theater and film here, and we always hope that they find some legs so everybody can go see them - this gets, you know, wider distribution, so people can call us after they've seen the movie...

WEISS: Great. Thank you.

FLATOW: ...and talk about it...

WEISS: Yes. Let us know after you watch it.

FLATOW: Good luck to you, Valerie Weiss. She is losing control here.

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FLATOW: She wrote, directed and produced the film, and it's a good view(ph) . I advise you all to go take a look. Thank you for coming and talking with us today.

WEISS: Thanks for having me. It's a pleasure.

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