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...movie has wrapped, and reality has set back in at Horner. Calvin Mitchell, 10, a boy Winfrey befriended, says, "They had a shooting just yesterday, near where I live. It's tough ((Horner)), but if you mind your business, you'll be all right." He wants to win the scholarship Winfrey's endowing with her salary from the movie: "I know I can do it, and can't nobody tell me anything different." There's always hope...
...sellin' our soul to the devil today." The cameras are rolling as Winfrey, a TV talk-show host who is said to earn more than $40 million a year, tackles her newest role, that of LaJoe Rivers, an impoverished mother of eight children struggling to survive in the Henry Horner Homes, a violent Chicago housing project. The movie, which will air on ABC in November, is the first serious film from Harpo, Winfrey's production company. It's based on the nonfiction best seller There Are No Children Here by Alex Kotlowitz, which details the life of Rivers...
...production spent six days on location at the projects, employing Horner kids as extras. Betsy Bottando, the location manager, knows a policeman with relatives in the local gangs, and he met with them to ensure that the filming would take place undisturbed. Bottando says one scene was set at nearby Chicago Stadium before a Bulls game, but the building's manager called the extras "animals" and refused to open the stadium doors. "I know the guy's family," says Bottando. "They're from Evergreen Park" -- a middle-class village near Chicago -- "Ever-WHITE Park, just like I am." The scene...
...fanciful premise of Jurassic Park -- that DNA could be recovered from fossils and cloned to create live dinosaurs -- has already turned into partial truth. Jack Horner, the paleontologist who advised Steven Spielberg on the movie, thinks he has found red blood cells in a chunk of Tyrannosaurus bone, and extractable DNA might be inside them. The cloning part is still fantasy, but the DNA could be used to test the theory that dinosaurs and birds are closely related...
Whatever the reason, says Horner, "we have pretty good evidence that all duck-billed dinosaurs were nest-bound and nurturing. We also see a lot of herding behavior among hadrosaurs as well as ceratopsians," a group that includes Triceratops. In fact, claims Horner, "most of the herbivores cared for their young...