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This past year the movie gods smiled on Soderbergh once again, and this time they grinned like Julia Roberts on ecstasy. As director of last spring's Erin Brockovich, he coaxed the best performance yet out of the biggest female movie star on Planet Earth and generated more than $256 million at the box office worldwide. Now his new film, Traffic, an epic sweep through the international drug trade, has been named Best Picture by the New York Film Critics Circle...
...irony--the nation's newly appointed drug czar. "Steven jumps from one venue to another better than anybody." When the Hollywood Foreign Press Association handed down its Golden Globe nominations for 2000, Soderbergh's amazing versatility was rewarded with two directing nods--one for Traffic and one for Erin Brockovich. Which means that as the Oscar race heats up, Soderbergh is facing off against himself...
...were testaments to his renewed confidence and fine-tuned techniques: the sharp cuts and occasionally free-floating dialogue that propel his stories. The onscreen heat he elicited between Clooney and Lopez proved that Soderbergh also had a talent for getting the best from his actors. Roberts' work in Erin Brockovich has scored a Golden Globe nomination and a Best Actress award from the National Board of Review...
...join Clooney and Brad Pitt in Soderbergh's upcoming remake of the 1960 Rat Pack heist flick Ocean's Eleven, "but a lot of people can't rally the troops the way Steven does. He's the most fun guy to make a movie with." Roberts and the Erin Brockovich crew tested his good humor on the set by taking snapshots of one another looking horrified and putting this caption on the series: "Just saw Kafka...
While Erin Brockovich, the fact-based role of a single mom crusading against an energy company, is remarkably short on his stylistic touches ("It was an exercise in control for me," he says), Traffic is pure Soderbergh. Visually eclectic and alternately jarring and sentimental, it jump-cuts energetically among three stories. While Douglas' character juggles his public duties and private anguish at home in Cincinnati, Ohio, Catherine Zeta-Jones stars as a pregnant San Diego housewife who takes charge of the family business when her drug-lord husband is arrested, and Benicio Del Toro plays a Mexican cop lured into...