Word: spielbergism
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...doesn't have an agent yet, but former Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun will make his movie debut in Steven Spielberg's Amistad. The role isn't a stretch: he plays former Justice Joseph Story. Without the aid of a p.r. rep, Blackmun released a statement saying he was honored to be "in Mr. Spielberg's significant film about our nation's struggle with slavery...
...convocation of moguls had gathered at the Beverly Hills Hotel, that pink palace on Sunset Boulevard, to divvy up Saving Private Ryan, a World War II drama starring Tom Hanks, in the works for the summer of 1998. Paramount had the script; DreamWorks had the dream director, Steven Spielberg. That the two studios would agree to share the picture is not that unusual. But which one would get to distribute it in the U.S., and which would get the rest of the world? Both sides wanted the domestic release, which means getting the glory if the picture...
...pocketful of quarters won't be of much use at GameWorks, another Steven Spielberg fantasy come true, opening this week in Seattle. The 30,000-sq.-ft. arcade features a state-of-the-art fighter-plane simulator and other virtual-reality diversions, music videos, a Starbucks, a gourmet-pizza joint, a brew pub, and a floor-to-ceiling game that lets you rise 28 ft. in the air as you score hits against a bad guy called...
...venture, funded by Spielberg and DreamWorks, Sega Enterprises and Universal Studios, plans to open 40 locations by the year 2002, at about $10 million a pop, in other U.S. cities as well as far-flung places like Brazil. Next up: an even bigger arcade in Las Vegas, although the GameWorks creators don't like to think of their gaming spaces as arcades. "It's truly a unique social environment, and that's what's missing from the arcade experience," says GameWorks' president, Michael Montgomery. In other words, parents and kids can pursue separate game paths under one roof and call...
Hall's markedly less daring return to TV came about as the result of a phone call from Jeffrey Katzenberg, one-third of the power triumvirate (along with Steven Spielberg and David Geffen) at the DreamWorks studio. Katzenberg, who, without a hint of irony in his voice, refers to Hall as a "national treasure," decided to lure the comic back to TV after catching his appearance on Late Show with David Letterman in November 1995. The mogul's first step was to dissuade Hall from doing a film he had conceived in which the comic would have starred...