The 32-year-old Ohio native grew up watching the "Sesame Street" children's television show - and dreaming about singing, dancing and acting someday. And voila! He not only knows what it's like to ...

Animation had lost its luster until Pixar came on the scene and shined it up. We talk to one of their chief polishers, writer and director Brad Bird, about retired superheroes, rats that cook and ...