Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...otherwise fertile scalp that sheathes his even more fertile brain. When making movies he covers it with a studio-issue baseball cap, but certain formal occasions call for cagier camouflage. On Oscar night 1994, when Schindler's List won seven awards (including Best Picture and Best Director) and Jurassic Park took three others, a makeup artist sprayed Spielberg's bald spot with hair-colored paint. No problem, until half an hour into the post-Oscar party, by which time the star of the evening had absently patted his head a few times, then stroked his face. "My wife Kate rushed...
Therefore it's worth taking the emotional pulse of the man as he emerges from a three-year directorial hiatus to shoot three movies in 12 months: The Lost World: Jurassic Park, the sequel that opens next week; Amistad, the true story of a slave revolt, expected at year's end; and Saving Private Ryan, a World War II saga starring Tom Hanks. Ever since Jaws in 1975, Spielberg has led the way for mainstream movies, with their kinetic savvy and kid-centric sentiment. To an extent, they are what he has been. But what is he now? Has Peter...
...exactly lying in a hammock monitoring cloud patterns. As the head of Amblin Entertainment he shepherded a passel of hit movies, including The Flintstones, Casper and Twister. He helped develop TV's ER, masterminded a CD-ROM (Steven Spielberg's Directors Chair) and oversaw the giddy, multithrill Jurassic Park ride at Universal Studios, Hollywood. Oh, yes, he also started, with Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen, a little outfit called DreamWorks SKG; Spielberg oversees the live-action film unit. And in the noblest spin-off generated by a hit movie, the director of Schindler's List established the Survivors...
...brood of seven: Max (whose custody he shares with Irving); Jessica, 20 (from Capshaw's first marriage); Theo, 8; Sasha, 7; Sawyer, 5; Mikaela, 14 months; and Destry, 5 months. Before the hiatus, he was often too preoccupied to be a perfect dad. "On the Jurassic Park shoot my family was with me," he says, "but I'm not quite sure I was with them." He would now be a full-time father to the seven little Capshaw-Spielbergs. Kate even got Katzenberg to promise that Spielberg would work only until 5:30. And did Katzenberg have to sign...
...thrust of a Jurassic Park sequel seems simple enough: get the dinosaurs off the island to run rampant in a big city, a la King Kong and Godzilla. But Michael Crichton's follow-up to his best-selling novel was less a continuation of the original than a rewrite. It provided just two notions that excited Spielberg: the existence of a secret island where the DNA dinos had been created, and a set piece where a T. rex tries pushing a trailer off a cliff after its babies are threatened by scientists...