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...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...
...soul industry' springing up," he says. "Baby boomers are awakening to the total emptiness of their lives, and reading is something they know is important and haven't quite forgotten how to do. Plus, a book club sure beats church and synagogue." In Los Angeles, traditionally the land of rampant intellectual insecurity and social transience, some book clubs fulfill a crucial dual role: they elevate members' sensibilities while helping them put down roots. "I get a lot of calls from newcomers in town," says Diane Leslie, an organizer of book clubs in what is now the nation...
...fact that Hershman was killed on a relatively routine shoot instead of a challenging picture with big effects only underscores the danger. Says Steven Soderbergh, Pleasantville's co-producer: "It's amazing that it didn't happen on other projects where these specific kinds of abuses are rampant...
...fish supply. The Times-Picayune?s Walt Handelsman added another award for editorial cartooning. Among other top winners of the awards announced by Columbia University today, the prize for investigative reporting went to Eric Nalder, Deborah Nelson and Alex Tizon of the Seattle Times for their story on rampant corruption in a federal housing program for American Indians. The Wall Street Journal won the national reporting prize for its coverage of AIDS in the scientific and business communities. The international reporting award went to John F. Burns of the New York Times for his coverage of the Taliban regime...
...campaign finance scandal seems to be yet another example of the poor decision making and recklessness which appears to run rampant through the Clinton administration. Unfortunately, Clinton's sly campaign strategists managed to trick us into believing that ethics do not matter in choosing our politicians. Hopefully, we will learn from this latest scandal so that we will not be fooled again...