Word: spielbergism
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...last hours of Pop.com were laced with irony worthy of a movie by Steven Spielberg and Ron Howard--who, as it happens, were co-founders of the ill-fated website. Every Friday afternoon for the past few months, Pop's 85 employees had gathered in their Glendale, Calif., warehouse to sip beers and slap backs for the films they already had in the can: shorts starring Rene Russo, Steve Martin, Claudia Schiffer. Last Friday, just two weeks before the planned launch, they were chugging beers to drown their sorrows and being eyed by security guards to make sure they didn...
...other white-collar workers at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City are striking to raise the base pay from $17,000 to $20,000 and retain medical and other insurance benefits. The strikers have the support of prominent artists (like Sol LeWitt) and filmmakers (like Steven Spielberg). But the MOMA brass remain firm. "We think we've given a generous offer, and we're competitive with others in the field," a spokeswoman says...
...John Williams - longtime composer for George Lucas and noted Democrat Steven Spielberg - was represented by his ever-popular "Star Wars Theme," though it was unclear if it had been selected for its subtle call to arms for the impending battle against the evil empire of liberalism or because it was perceived to be a campaign tune promoting the SDI program...
...with a rumored budget of $70 million, based loosely on the multimillion-selling series of PlayStation games of the same title. A science-fiction epic that deals with earth's response to alien invasion in 2065, Fantasy looks to be the first movie that does for humans what Steven Spielberg did for dinosaurs and Pixar did for toys and bugs: build living, breathing replicas out of electrons...
That's no small proposition. Lifelike skin and hair are notoriously tough to manage on computers; even Spielberg once said he'd never attempt to create CG humans. Now about 200 animators and artists, some of whom have been at it for more than two years, are laboring in near secrecy under creator and director Hironobu Sakaguchi. Veterans of Titanic and The Matrix have been drafted alongside video-game gurus from Japan...