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Just as her grievance charging that DreamWorks stole her ideas for Amistad was getting some traction, novelist BARBARA CHASE-RIBOUD got stuck in her own little plagiarism mess. A New York Times reporter doing research on eunuchs (hey, they've got a lot of sections to fill now) discovered that one chapter in Chase-Riboud's Valide: A Novel of the Harem has seven instances--some as many as 600 words in length--lifted directly from a 1936 nonfiction work on harems. Chase-Riboud is continuing her $10 million lawsuit...
...extraordinarily important film, perhaps the most important film of my career." --Steven Spielberg on Amistad...
...until just before the Christmas break that Henry Fassbender, shaper of ninth-grade minds at P.S. 117 in Huntington, Ind., finally found a moment to inspect the Amistad learning kit for himself. It had been sent to the school by overnight mail from DreamWorks, and the whole history department was aflutter. The graphics were compelling, the subject matter gripping, but as Henry sat in the faculty lounge carefully perusing the glossy pages, his heart began to sink. He could see his upcoming vacation unraveling with every page--victim to the unbearable lightness of a Hollywood learning...
...luck. If he couldn't trust Steven Spielberg to provide responsible promotional materials, whom could he trust? Now he would have to hike on over to the Huntington library and laboriously research the episode on his own. Henry knew there were plenty of books and essays on the Amistad mutiny (although in Hollywood's view, a historical episode has been forgotten, even repressed, if a movie hasn't been made about it), but it was a colossal waste of his discretionary time to do corrective research. Henry shuddered at the memory of the week JFK opened. It had taken...
STEVEN SPIELBERG Affirmative action tie-in & White House sleepover for Amistad...