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Spielberg recalls with a shudder the morning at DreamWorks when he glanced at his daily log and saw that "every meeting I had scheduled had nothing to do with directing movies. That's when I realized that what I do best is what my partners would want me to do: direct." Katzenberg agrees. "The best thing Steven can do for us is to stay on a movie set," he says. Spielberg's deal with DreamWorks is that he will direct one film "at home" for every two he makes outside. Amistad is a DreamWorks venture; The Lost World...
...President Clinton vowed publicly would never be mined. But about which he may have spoken too soon. For Margaret Reeb is not simply the eccentric heroine in her own romantic western. A bona-fide scion of the mining heroes she celebrates, she has the financial leverage to throw a shudder into the massive federal machinery she believes would grind up their dream...
...prosperity and political stability is greeted with immense enthusiasm. That, plus his military victories, may soon catapult him into the presidency of Zaire. But in recent weeks the delight has been tempered by a sense of trepidation. As Zairians contemplate the possibility of getting rid of one despot, they shudder at the prospect of replacing him with another. "If Kabila were in power," muses one surgeon in Kinshasa, "we would have to make him understand that we do not want to live under dictatorship. I have suffered so much. I cannot live like that again...
...Little Miss Colorado, it turned out (an invitation to the tabloids if ever there was one), and the more we saw of her--her beautiful eyes, her coquettish smile, her perfect hair and make-up, her seductive walk--the lovelier she became, until the unwanted thought arose, like a shudder, that this crime could be even stranger than it seemed at first...
...does Molly shudder at the thought of eating eggs? Because several years ago, she saw the most famous antidrug commercial ever aired. The spot opens with a shot of a raw egg while a voice says, "This is your brain." The egg is then dumped onto a sizzling griddle while the voice says, "This is your brain on drugs." The commercial may well have put a number of teenagers off drugs. It put at least one six-year-old off eggs...