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...Steven Spielberg yelled...
During the last three decades, Jones entered another world that had been closed to blacks, as he composed the film scores for 33 major motion pictures. In 1985, he co-produced Steven Spielberg's "The Color Purple," which won 11 Oscar nominations, introduced Whoopi Goldberg and Oprah Winfrey to film audiences and marked his debut as a film producer...
...lead in the low-budget Swingers, a Gen-X comedy about latter-day lounge lizards bantering incessantly in superhip lingo--kinda like this, baby. In one scene, Vaughn's character picks up a woman in a bar while the theme from Jaws plays in the background; Steven Spielberg saw it, and the rest is show-biz history. Says Vaughn: "I do this one small movie for $250,000, and now I get this call that Spielberg wants to see me for The Lost World. So it's kind of a huge extreme from a $250,000 budget independent film...
...also got momentum: besides his role as a nature photographer in The Lost World, he stars in the forthcoming neo-noir drama The Locusts (opposite, coincidentally, Spielberg's wife Kate Capshaw), and is filming the comedy Clay Pigeons (with Janeane Garofalo). "The reason I've scheduled all these movies in a row is that I don't know how long this window of opportunity will last," says Vaughn. "While the opportunity is here, I want to take advantage of it." Don't sweat it, baby, the word's out: everybody knows you're money...
...technology that brought digitized dinosaurs to life in Jurassic Park has not advanced considerably, Spielberg notes, "but the artistry of the creative computer people has--they graduated from freshmen to the senior class by making movies like Casper and Jumanji. There's better detail, much better lighting, better muscle tone and movement in the animals. When a dinosaur transfers weight from his left side to his right, the whole movement of fat and sinew is smoother, more physiologically correct." Adds Industrial Light & Magic computer-graphics ace Dennis Muren: "We built the instrument for the first movie; on this...