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...grew older, we learned the problem with these early experiences and understood how it conditioned to accept violence, particularly towards women, and to grow up to be callous vidiots sensitive only to lassoing ad execs. We echo, of course, the blood-thirsty media vultures whose tabloid exploits also increased during the '80s. Scream 2 addresses this in the character of Courteney Cox, whose Gale Weathers is now a slimy reporter; in addition, throughout the film, people theorize about what motivated people to such gore...
...ANGELES: Steven Spielberg says the slave drama "Amistad," set to be released Wednesday, might be "the most important (film) of my career." Novelist Barbara Chase-Riboud, who wrote about the same slave-ship rebellion in her 1989 book "Echo of Lions," thinks it's the most important film of hers...
...Night In Question"--it represents all the stories included this year's collection of "The Best American Short Stories." They may not all necessarily take the art of the short story to much needed, new innovative levels, but they all offering precisely crafted glimpse into the human experience that echo entire worlds and lifetimes...
...history, always a tricky business, given the manifold ambiguities and contradictions of human behavior. A similar task awaits whoever gets to adjudicate a recently filed lawsuit alleging that Spielberg and his colleagues are, to put it baldly, plagiarists--that they swiped their vision of the Amistad tale from Echo of Lions, a little-known historical novel by Barbara Chase-Riboud...
Does anyone have title to history? With their shared basis in fact, there are obviously a lot of similarities between Echo of Lions and Amistad. But judging from the film's shooting script, the two works are vastly different in tone, structure and dramatic focus. Echo of Lions has moments of empathic brilliance but suffers from not knowing which events deserve emphasis. The Amistad script is the sleek, A-list product--riveting, literate, conventional...