Word: spielbergism
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...result: that rare and glorious middle-class Cabbage Patch-doll frenzy, marked by toy scalping, queuing at dawn, rumors of retailers hoarding product and celebrities besieging Nintendo's Redmond, Washington, phone lines. Among those pleading for special dispensation: Matthew Perry, Steven Spielberg's office and, according to Harrison, "several Chicago Bulls who asked to remain anonymous." Look for Harrison courtside real soon...
HRTV Events Manager M. Odoi Odotei '97-'98 said event coordinators were unprepared for the crowd of about 600 students who flocked to the Media Fair in order to speak with representatives from MTV Animation, Steven Spielberg's Dreamworks and National Geographic, among others. Odotei said HRTV hopes to include media magnates such as Warner Bros., Paramount Pictures, ABC, NBC, HBO and ESPN in next year's fair and that increased support from OCS could make it happen...
...frame and a face that is memorably poetic in its asymmetry, Neeson, 44, has always possessed movie-star aura. But it took Hollywood nearly a decade to figure out how to capture it. By the time Neeson landed the role of Oskar Schindler in Steven Spielberg's monumental Holocaust elegy, the Irish actor had already appeared in 23 mostly unheralded films. And yet, even though Schindler's List won Neeson the kind of praise and splashy recognition (including an Oscar nomination for Best Actor) that had long eluded him, it was a film that belonged more to its harrowing subject...
...Angeles, where he began performing in a string of indifferently received movies like The Good Mother, with Diane Keaton, and Sam Raimi's Darkman. But he never forgot the stage, and it was his dynamic performance in a '93 Broadway revival of Anna Christie that convinced Spielberg he had found his Schindler...
...prospect of three brand-new Star Wars movies that has Hollywood's studios salivating. The leading contenders appear to be Fox and Disney, although Steven Spielberg hopes he can prevail upon his old friend Lucas--the two made the Indiana Jones movies together--to give a big bang to Spielberg's new company, DreamWorks. Sources close to Lucas doubt he'll slip his babies into the untested DreamWorks distribution pipeline. A Fox executive adds that Lucas has a keen sense of competition with Spielberg and is eager for the original Star Wars to pass Jurassic Park at the box office...