Word: spielbergisms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...almost equally certain to be the great commercial hit of the season-a blockbuster on the order of Star Wars and Jaws. Which is as it should be, since it is produced by George Lucas, 37, who created the former, and directed by Steven Spielberg, 33, who made the latter...
Raiders represents Spielberg's best work in years, a return to the briskness and coherence that have been missing since Jaws. But in the end it is very much a producer's film, a George Lucas film, reflecting not only his taste in entertainment but a carefully evolved production style that leaves plenty of room for creativity and none at all for miscalculation or self-indulgence. The film began as "a daydream" back in 1973, when Lucas first got the desire "to make a B movie I wanted to see," and was modeled on Republic serials, those thrill...
There the story rested until Lucas, cooling out on a Hawaiian beach after launching Star Wars, began embroidering his tale for Spielberg, his friend. "I felt like I was eating a barrel of popcorn at a noon matinee," Spielberg recalls. Two years later they called in Screenwriter Lawrence Kasdan, who shared the screenplay credit on Empire, for a marathon "pitching" session. For five consecutive nine-hour days the three men shouted, argued, paced and acted out the story until its line was firm. "We are general practitioners," explains Spielberg. "The best work I do is when I'm locked...
...test, described by Medical Researchers David Blake and Stephen Spielberg, white blood cells from humans are mixed with liver tissue from humans or other species plus the drug under study. Then the preparation is examined to see if enzymes in the liver have metabolized the drug into a substance that kills white cells. The researchers believe that such toxic metabolites may be responsible for birth defects; some of their studies suggest that thalidomide works that way. The new test, for instance, shows that thalidomide does form a toxic metabolite, areneoxide, in the presence of liver tissue from rabbits, monkeys...
Blake and Spielberg caution that this test will not alert investigators to all drugs with the potential for causing birth defects, only to those that form toxic metabolites. But they think their work could help researchers design more reliable experiments. For example, if a test shows that a .particular drug forms a toxic metabolite in humans and rabbits, but not, say, in dogs, then by a process of elimination rabbits would be designated the appropriate species for future birth defect studies related to that drug...