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Globetrotting naturalist Douglas Quin explores Hugo Van Lawick's
newest film  By David Templeton  Writer David Templeton takes
interesting people to interesting movies in his ongoing quest
for the ultimate post-film conversation. This time out, he takes
in the sumptuous wild-life epic The Leopard Son with award-
winning musician and naturalist Douglas Quin.  Hugo Van Lawick
is to wildlife cinematographers what Orson Welles is to aspiring
actor/directors--though Hugo has yet to shoot a wine commercial.
His spectacular '60s-era images of the respected primatologist
(and then wife) Jane Goodall working among Africa's chimpanzees
are legendary. For 30 years, his shots of wildlife on the plains
of the Serengeti have served as a benchmark to those unfearing
souls who ache for the chance to put a camera (or a microphone)
right in the snarling face of nature.  "I was certainly inspired
as a young man by the