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...whose prime asset is Spielberg. Since 1982, five of the six Universal films to gross at least $100 million at the domestic box office (E.T., Back to the Future, Back to the Future Part II, Jurassic Park and The Flintstones) have come from Spielberg's Amblin. Another Spielberg film, Schindler's List, | earned $96 million and a slew of Oscars. Universal Studios Florida, the company's pricey rival to Walt Disney World, is virtually a Spielberg shrine, with major rides celebrating E.T., Back to the Future and Jaws. But without its main man, Universal is a crippled company. The rest...
Thomas Keneally, in contrast, happily picked up the tape of his book Schindler's List and was pleased with the four-hour adaptation read by Ben Kingsley. "The text is not an amputee," he says. "I felt that it represented the essence of the thing very well." After refusing to allow audio condensations of his previous novels, E.L. Doctorow permitted his latest, The Waterworks, to be cut to four audio hours. "I have changed my position on this," he says. "It is pretty clear to me that print culture is under enormous assault today. I take the position now that...
...dent in the wall; Chao framed the dent. Thus does Diller, whose stare can go through you like a power drill, inspire passions and animosities. Says a studio executive: "People who have worked for Barry and then escaped have a secret handshake. They consider themselves lucky survivors, like the Schindler Jews...
...Chief Egyptian censor Hamdy Sorour, explaining why he was forced to ban Schindler's List last week
...which owns TIME) and Warner Communications wished to be perceived. But the Steve Ross who emerges in Master of the Game (Simon & Schuster; 395 pages; $25), New Yorker staff writer Connie Bruck's intelligent and fascinating biography, is composed equally of George Bailey, Don Corleone, Felix Krull and Oskar Schindler -- Steven Spielberg has said Ross was a model for the portrayal of Schindler in Schindler's List...