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MacNeil did better than arrive at the right place at the right time; during his heyday in the 1960s, he was literally everywhere at the right time. He was in the Congo in 1960 during that country's bloody fight for independence. Subbing for a colleague, he was in Berlin the night East Germany began building the wall. He spent the Cuban missile crisis in Havana, residing in a government prison. Once again on substitute duty, he arrived in Dallas in November 1963 and later covered the assassination of John F. Kennedy. He covered the massive civil rights demonstrations...
...stands." But hatching a blockbuster may be the only way for a film maker to outsmart the deal makers running the big studios. Spielberg and Director Brian De Palma (Carrie, Dressed to Kill) recently haggled with two major studios over the rights to Michael Crichton's bestselling novel Congo. "A deal is a work of science fiction," Spielberg says. "I wasted three months learning how not to make one. Eventually, Brian and I walked away. The whole 'movie game' is just one more useless experience." He wishes the studios would put some of their profits into development...
...work with his own restrained style of joy. One piece was a coffee table that Carter had made out of some walnut he had got by trading a book with a neighbor; another was a bedside table made from a purplish slab of wood that came from the Congo. A huge hickory tree from the backyard had provided him with his own supply of local wood. He split the felled tree with a wedge, then used a heavy blade called a froe to cut them into the proper lengths for furniture. Pieces of white hickory sat in pails of water...
...fact that we have no authentic decorative style, only a menu of designers' revivals, is partly due to these Dutch missionaries, who, in the '20s, marched brandishing their red-yellow-blue crucifixes through the dark Congo of impure form...
...Hoare adopted the Wild Goose emblem for his commandos in the Congo, and it became notorious in 1964 when the mercenaries "liberated" Stanleyville from the "Simba" rebels...