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...behemoth just keeps on chugging. "Titanic" is now the highest-grossing movie in the world, ever -- and there?s no sign of icebergs as it steams into the record books. Global ticket sales have reached a colossal $918 million, soaring past the puny $914 grossed by "Jurassic Park." Evidently, Spielberg?s dinosaur flick simply did not kill off enough of its extras...
...have to live there. With all due respect to Marie Lewis and her poultry farm, we're more enthralled by the Brentwood News item about the opening of a Whole Foods market. Sighted pushing carts filled with such items as bottled water and organic carrots were Brooke Shields, Steven Spielberg, Ellen DeGeneres, Sophia Loren and the cast of Melrose Place. One more nugget pulled from the News: "Dustin Hoffman recently bought the home of an elderly lady so he wouldn't have to walk across her flowers to get to his tennis courts...
...ticket in Washington--to dine with those two powerful heads of state--lent the evening an illusion of invulnerability: that all is right in the world because all is right at this moment. There was the President, charming and being charmed by the bicoastal Masters of the Universe: Steven Spielberg, Barry Diller, Jack Welch, Warren Buffett, Tom Hanks, Ralph Lauren, John F. Kennedy Jr., Tina Brown, Anna Wintour, Barbara Walters, Peter Jennings. Bad luck seemed as far away as it must have seemed in the ballroom of the Titanic. How can anything be wrong when Stevie Wonder and Sir Elton...
...always look forward to seeing your pick for Man of the Year [Dec. 29-Jan. 5], but I can't remember ever having such a good feeling about your selection. The story of Intel's Andrew Grove could easily be turned into a Spielberg movie about overcoming adversity and achieving the American Dream. Great choice! BOB JACOBSON Eden Prairie, Minn...
...Amistad, the story of a shipful of African slaves and their struggle for freedom, Stephen Spielberg pulls out all the stops, pouring on the pathos and the pity, spooning on the sympathy and drenching it all in melodrama. Spielberg has apparently decided to stop making films and instead to start performing "filmmaking." Despite a number of excellent performances, what could very well have been a poignant and emotional tale is so concertedly and self-consciously delivered as such that it just comes out muddied and misconceived. --Jon B. Dinerstein...