Word: spielbergisms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Alice Walker ascended from the realm of mere literature after Steven Spielberg's film adaptation of her novel The Color Purple. The movie's huge commercial success -- and the controversy that arose over its portrait of black males -- ensured Walker's public renown as a woman with a cause, an author who, when she has a message, would rather write a book than call Western Union. Indeed, her poetry and fiction have always been, to some extent, polemical. Now that her potential audience has increased many times over, Walker, 45, has become more forthright about the burden of her prose...
...Kane. Mank, as he was known, does get credit for the basic plot and the "Rosebud" sled gimmick, but most of the words belong to Welles, who, after all, had to speak them as the film's protagonist, Charles Foster Kane. Among the footnotes to this classic is Steven Spielberg's purchase at auction of one of three sleds used in the project. The young producer-director paid $55,000 for the icon, only to have Welles later declare it a fake...
Wasserstein compares the gathering momentum of her theatrical career to the children's story The Little Engine That Could. Heidi was written in 1987 after a frustrating period that included a musical that never made it out of workshop readings and a filmscript for Steven Spielberg that was shelved. Then, as now, she was living in a Greenwich Village apartment, with no formal attachments aside from a cat named Ginger. Relentlessly social, Wasserstein has built a life revolving around an intricate network of friendships, many with other playwrights. But writing Heidi represented, in part, an acknowledgment that Wasserstein, like...
Laser discs (basically, CDs with movies on them) may have suffered from consumer confusion in the marketplace. But for film aficionados and filmmakers, from Steven Spielberg to Martin Scorsese, they are the home- viewing medium of choice. With peerless sound and a better picture than even the best VCR can deliver, laser discs do the fullest justice to their theatrical source material. To make them even more attractive to movie buffs and general viewers, disc producers are offering extras unavailable on tape and often even in theaters, such as Bolger's full dance number, which never made it into...
...catching on. MGM is marketing lavish wide-screen editions of Doctor Zhivago and Ben- Hur, and 20th Century Fox will put out the Star Wars trilogy, as well as the recent smash Die Hard, in the full-frame format. Even E.T. was letter- boxed on disc, and Spielberg's earlier 1941, when it arrives on disc this summer, will be in wide screen and contain some 20 minutes of previously deleted smash-and-grab comedy footage. All this feverish cinema archaeology confirms that laser disc is not only the best way to see movies but also the best...