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...starting place in any attempt to sketch Crichton, for it is what flattens everyone upon first meeting him. "I found myself climbing up on things without even knowing it just to talk to him," says Kathleen Kennedy, who produced the movie Jurassic Park, as well as this summer's Congo, based on a 1980 Crichton novel. "It's a bit disconcerting when you realize you're tilting your head completely back just to get a glimpse...
...converted into box-office gold: Rising Sun, his thriller that exploited American fears of Japan's economic threat, earned $65 million domestically for Hollywood in 1993. Disclosure, his 1994 topical twist on sex-harassment in the office (Demi Moore chases Michael Douglas around the desk) collected $83 million domestically. Congo, his adventure saga featuring a talking gorilla, was released last summer to widespread pans but still made a hefty $80 million. Maybe that's because its advertisements didn't feature a single cast member--just the real superstar behind the project: "From the author of Jurassic Park...
...only writer I know who has footnotes in his fiction," says Frank Marshall, who directed Congo. Raves Spielberg: "He has maybe the richest imagination of anybody I know. And he grounds his fantasy in such contemporary technical reality that he can make the reader swallow just about anything." Need a for-instance? Take Jurassic Park, page...
...kamikaze logic. Since there are more big movies than early-summer weekends, most films--even the hits--will be seven-day wonders. So it has been, with few exceptions, this season. Crimson Tide gives way to Die Hard with a Vengeance is vaporized by Casper gets eaten by Congo is beaten by Batman Forever gets a poke in the eye from Pocahontas. Hey, it's a jungle out there. One weekend you're the lion king; the next, you're vulture chow...
From academia to ambassadorial travel, Wilson has followed a meandering path--almost like that of the Congo River, which Wilson voyaged with money from a Rockefeller Grant just after graduation...