From the San Francisco Chronicle - Friday, May 16, 2003
...On this day, he was charged with editing the movie he had made on a previous afternoon, the theme of which he selected after learning that his seventh grade history class back home was studying "Ancient Roman Empire history stuff."
Wearing a hospital bedsheet as a toga, he had Kanter film him battling his disease -- as Julius Caesar. "I'm preparing for the battle, the battle that will happen inside me," he bellowed into the camera. When giving his doctor (played by child life specialist Eve Alley) his phone number, he recites the digits in Roman numerals, and later, he drives to Constantinople for treatment.
At the film's conclusion, he announces that he's "won the biggest battle in my life" and starts dancing with Alley. Laughing, she shouts, "Break it down, Julius!"
Kanter showed Tyler how to delete scenes, rearrange the order, insert titles over the pictures and add music. But all the decisions were up to him.
"You'll have total control -- don't you worry," Kanter assured the skittish star...
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