CSU hosts HBO movie about professor

2/7/10 - 9:45 pm

Temple Grandin is many things. An author. A CSU professor. An inventor. A doctor of animal science. She created a “hug machine,” used to eat Jell-O and yogurt for every meal and would rather be in the cattle yard than most places. She has also developed an ethical system for handling cattle that is used in more than half of the meat plants in North America. And like the first line in the HBO movie about her life, Grandin is “not like other people.” She’s autistic. The life of the inventor, the bestselling author, the autism advocate, the livestock expert and the CSU professor of agricultural sciences was celebrated with a screening of the biographic film “Temple Grandin” Saturday night in the Lory Student Center Theater. Grandin, who is played by Claire Danes in the film, said the actress’ interpretation of her life was astounding. “Claire Danes became me in the ‘60s and ‘70s.