Word: koepp
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...Spielberg and screenwriter David Koepp fashioned a new story. Says producer Kathleen Kennedy: "In the same way Michael doesn't see writing as a collaboration, Steven went off and did his own movie. When Michael turned the book over to Steven, he knew his work was finished." The author was never consulted about the sequel, nor was he sent a script until he held back approval of certain merchandising rights. But Crichton now sounds sanguine about the process. "When I write," he says, "I have to have the book be exactly the way I want it to be, and that...
...tale, produced in extraordinary collaboration by two of our savviest political analysts, senior writer Richard Stengel and senior correspondent Eric Pooley. "With Rick and Eric, you know you're going to get the story behind the story," says senior editor Priscilla Painton, who along with assistant managing editor Steve Koepp oversaw our election-issue package. "Eric burrows into a story and doesn't come back until he has every detail. Rick never loses sight of the big picture...
...when national political correspondent Michael Duffy called Wednesday morning to say that Bob Dole seemed set to surprise folks by picking his longtime antagonist Jack Kemp as a running mate, we realized that the convention package being prepared by Stephen Koepp, Priscilla Painton and their Nation team was becoming the most fascinating political story of the year. It embodied all the marvelous interplay between politics and personality that has been TIME's franchise for 73 years. If the presidential race is destined to tighten (and I suspect it is), this could do it, and it will help clarify the very...
...often suspect that Priscilla has some kind of antenna in her office that picks up new ideas and stories before anyone else has tuned into them," says assistant managing editor Steve Koepp. Of course, if there's a gene for journalism, Painton may enjoy a hereditary advantage. Her father Fred Painton is a TIME writer of long standing. Because he was frequently posted abroad, his daughter was born in Rome and graduated from high school in Paris, where, she says, "politics is inhaled with the first breath...
...Wendy has an insatiable curiosity," says chief of correspondents Joelle Attinger, "that routinely takes her beyond groupthink or the easy take on just about any story." Says assistant managing editor Stephen Koepp, who edited the Fargo story: "She has a rare affinity for both people and numbers, which can bring a policy story vibrantly to life...