Word: spielbergisms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...good thing, too, because he is the only menace around -- not nearly enough to sustain this endless tale. As it turns out, there is nothing else in the deep except some benign escapees from Steven Spielberg country. Harris and Mastrantonio do have a strong death and resurrection sequence, but long before that, one is pining for a rubber shark or a plastic octopus -- anything, in fact, out of a good old low-tech thriller...
While the courtroom was the main battleground in the Paramount-vs.-Time struggle, some unexpected lobbyists emerged to tout the Time-Warner combination. Director-producer Steven Spielberg, a close friend of Ross's, expressed his support in a telephone talk with the Warner chairman and Nicholas. Spielberg collaborator George Lucas, who distributes their Indiana Jones films through Paramount, wrote a column in the Wall Street Journal last week that praised the Time-Warner deal for promising "steadily increasing values" and attacked Paramount for "contributing to the further destabilization of the entertainment industry and the U.S. economy...
...rails against New York Mayor Ed Koch: "He's a racist. Hopefully my film will force a couple of votes, and Ed won't be around for long"; Walt Disney: "Snow White, Song of the South? I hated that stuff. That's the difference between me and Steven Spielberg"; even Michael Jackson: "Cutting off his Negroid nose, I think that's sick. It's self-hatred...
INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE. The adventure genre may be nearly exhausted, but producer George Lucas and director Steven Spielberg know how to make the thrills crack like Indy's bullwhip. Sean Connery and Harrison Ford find special star resonance in the bond between an aloof father and his heroic, hero-worshiping...
...good work goes on for veteran good-earthers. Cheers' Ted Danson, president of the American Oceans Campaign, lobbies Congress to help save the oceans. Barbra Streisand offers a $250,000 donation to the Environmental Defense Fund. Robert Redford, who is planning a film with Steven Spielberg about the damaging of a rain forest, speaks on global warming at a Senate hearing. "It's important to raise the environment to the same level as national security," Redford says. "If we poison our planet, what is there left to defend...