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...Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List is released...
...Johnny is here,'" said Ratliffe. Chung hired Ratliffe, then 21, as an assistant in what he called his "bridge-building" mission between the U.S. and China, promising that she could live in a $3 million Virginia mansion, ride around Washington in a chauffeured town car, even meet Steven Spielberg. But Ratliffe quit after three months and one trip to Beijing, she said, because Chung never made good on his promises. "He was just this big braggart...
Speaking invitations have flowed in from groups as far away as Palm Beach, Fla., and Vancouver. Meili was even invited to Los Angeles to meet Steven Spielberg after the director learned that the watchman had been inspired to act by seeing Schindler's List. Meili has traveled to Israel to accept a humanitarian award, to Berlin for interviews with German television and to Auschwitz for a weekend as the guest of survivors. His story was even optioned by a would-be Hollywood dealmaker but, far from profiting, Meili discovered he had signed away his movie rights "without getting a cent...
...while but gave up after Sony balked at the budget he wanted for a script that had Godzilla battling a shape-shifting beast. James Cameron (Titanic), Tim Burton (Batman) and David Fincher (Alien 3) were among the directors at one time considered to update Godzilla. When Steven Spielberg, who knows from dinosaurs, heard that Devlin and Emmerich were contemplating the movie, he tried to talk them out of it and called the remake a silly concept. Emmerich, who was to direct the film, responded with a smile, "I don't know. Big Lizard eats Big Apple. I like...
...real revelation is finding out that these directors are often just as insecure and bizarre as the characters in their movies. Steven Spielberg was so nervous on the set of Jaws that he put celery in his pillow at night because he found the smell soothing. When he initially screened Star Wars, a disheartened George Lucas felt it would be considered just another kiddie flick. And The Exorcist's director, William Friedkin, became almost demonically possessed himself, foaming at the mouth and throwing objects...