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...midlife crisis trying to get some attention," and another Sunshine Stater derided the memo as "a bid for publicity as she plans her next career move--in Hollywood." But to a California admirer, that is exactly where Rowley's story belongs: "If they can make a movie about Erin Brockovich, why not one about Coleen Rowley...
Thanks to her investigative efforts, residents of Hinkley, Calif., won a settlement against Pacific Gas & Electric for contaminating their groundwater. And thanks to her, Julia Roberts won an Academy Award for depicting that struggle. Now Brockovich brings TIME's Michele Orecklin up to date on her life since the movie...
...projection booth for its first and most perfect screening. The color and contrast are true and bright from edge to edge, free of dust and precisely in focus. "Nobody, including us, ever sees it that good again," says Soderbergh, the Oscar-winning director of Traffic and Erin Brockovich. "Even after that first screening, it's got dirt on it and scratches." It's one of the sad facts of life for anyone who loves movies: film wears out and runs at the mercy of projectors with weak lamps and worn gears...
...movies like Erin Brockovich and A Civil Action, we see lawyers (or in Erin Brockovich, a legal secretary) bravely sacrificing their careers and their financial resources to sue evil, polluting corporations on behalf of cancer-stricken children. Naturally, we root for the families and for their plucky lawyers over the attorneys for the corporations, who are portrayed as either wily and corrupt or idiotic and corrupt. While the movies end differently, we’re meant to see that justice involves large punitive damages for the families of the sick children...
Over the last decade, which two kinds of created-for-film characters have achieved the most critical and popular success? The answer: single parents (think Erin Brockovich) and the mentally challenged (à la Rain Man and Forrest Gump). If you were to blend both character types for the lead role, you would get a surefire hit, right...