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...family; I have an existence; I have some privacy, and it's not going to be private if I let every reporter into my house," he says. If you caught him on television last week at the Emmy Awards, where one of his creations, the hit NBC medical series ER, was nominated for 23 awards (and took home eight), you saw him scrunched down in his chair, as a friendly giant will do in an auditorium seat--especially a giant writer seated in front of god filmmaker Steven Spielberg--5 ft. 10 in.--who directed Jurassic Park and will produce...
...ER, based on a script of Crichton's that had been moldering around Hollywood for 22 years, is just the latest evidence that Crichton hits more passes than anyone else at the high roller's table, even with old dice. From his best-selling The Andromeda Strain (the first novel he wrote under his own name), which became a hit movie in 1971, through Jurassic Park, with a worldwide box-office take of $912 million the most popular movie of recorded history, he is a giant even among those other pop novelists--John Grisham, Stephen King, Tom Clancy--whom Hollywood...
...narrative pacing on my part comes out of the emergency room." Indeed, in 1974 he wrote a movie script about his emergency-room experiences but got no takers in Hollywood. Years later, Steven Spielberg took a shine to it, and eventually shepherded it onto TV. The result was ER, the biggest hit of the 1994-95 season and, with 30 million viewers, now the most popular show on television...
...Students have informed me of the consequences of missing 'ER,' and I'm fast at work on accommodations for them," Fithian said...
...ER NBC's hit dramatic series dominates this year's Emmy nominations with...