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They met during Raiders of the Lost Ark, after Marshall had produced several films with Peter Bogdanovich. Kennedy at the time was Steven Spielberg's assistant. They started dating but kept it a secret. "It was the early '80s, and I knew the business," says Marshall, "and I knew if we were going out when Kathy got her first opportunity to produce something, people would say, Oh, Frank's doing that...
Kennedy and Marshall worked with Spielberg again on E.T. and Poltergeist, and in 1982 they formed a production company with him, Amblin Entertainment. Ten years later, as Spielberg prepared to found DreamWorks, Kennedy and Marshall decided to strike out on their own. "We wanted to have a family"--the traditional kind, says Kennedy. (They have two daughters, 9 and 11.) "We didn't want to become movie moguls and move into being executives within a company. We like making movies." Husband and wife produce films separately as well as together. Bourne is Marshall's baby, Diving Bell Kennedy's. Crystal...
...Marshall was shooting the third Bourne film, Kennedy was putting together Diving Bell, directed by the artist Julian Schnabel and adapted from a memoir by French journalist Jean-Dominique Bauby, who was almost completely paralyzed. Casting the behind-the-camera personalities on the film took some craftsmanship. Kennedy recruited Spielberg's director of photography to help Schnabel deliver a bold visual style, shooting as if the viewer were inside the paralyzed man's body. When the film's French production company balked at the price of an A-list cinematographer, Kennedy persuaded them to find the money elsewhere...
...More True Romance Why no mention of once, the best love story of the past few years [Aug. 20]? Steven Spielberg said it gave him enough inspiration to last the rest of the year. How about an article on this little film that is hanging on in a few theaters by the skin of its teeth? How good and how successful does it have to be before your writers will notice it? Christopher Dalrymple, NEW YORK CITY
...film's first public showing at Cannes in May, Control won three awards and critical raves. Morton, who has previously acted for directors like Steven Spielberg and Woody Allen, was similarly dazzled by Corbijn's debut. "His instincts were not just from a visual point of view; I found his development of the character really fascinating," she says. "For someone who's never made a film before to make a film that brilliant, to get the performances he got out of us, and to carry it, I just think he's extraordinary." For good measure, he pulled this off while...