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...Hollywood is partying in 1999. This is the season of silly--the goofy summer. Also dopey, because the humor is so often about bodily functions. And happy, for the studio bosses pleased not to be sweating out each weekend's take for a Titanic-priced epic that may do Postman-like business...
Deciding who got those assignments took some creative thought. Elmer-DeWitt was determined to find writers who brought a special expertise to their subject and could also produce graceful prose. NEIL POSTMAN for example, who wrote on TV pioneer Philo Farnsworth, is the author of Amusing Ourselves to Death, an acclaimed study of the impact of television on society. RICHARD RHODES, who profiled nuclear physicist Enrico Fermi, wrote a Pulitzer-prizewinning tome on the making of the atom bomb. Paleoanthropologist DONALD JOHANSON, who discovered the fossil called Lucy, had a long and bumpy relationship with the Leakey family and used...
...Neil Postman is the Paulette Goddard Professor of Media Ecology at New York University
...works with a story that is continually shifting gears. What begins as Max's struggle to maintain his self-identity while facing "sudden death academic probation" quickly changes into his dogged pursuit of a charming first grade teacher, Ms. Cross (Olivia Williams, free from the purgatory known as The Postman). Hoping to build an aquarium to impress her, Max enlists the help of Blume, a Rushmore benefactor whose vindictive speech against rich kids wins Max's friendship early on. Unfortunately, in a rather predictable twist, Blume also falls for Ms. Cross, which sparks a petty rivalry with Max and leads...
...with each big boring blockbuster that breaks box office records, the little Life is Beautiful- type gems are forgotten under a suffocating pile of green. No one represents the insipid big studio mentality more than Kevin Costner. After blockbuster duds like Waterworld and The Postman, he's still nostalgic for another successful big-budget hit like Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. But the more unlikely the scenarios Costner cooks up, the less likely the audience eats it up. This time around though, he's wised up. In his field of dreams, that piece de resistance would be his new flick...