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Popcorn. Slurp puddle. The flood of junk-culture references makes Spielberg sound like the world's smartest kid. Which he probably is and, once upon a shooting star, surely was. To see the man, look at the child--with Spielberg more than most, this is true. "What binds my films together," he says, "is the concept of loneliness and isolation and being pursued by all the forces of character and nature. That comes from who I was and how I was raised." The big mystery the mature Steven had to unravel and come to terms with is this: Whose child...
...decades, was Leah's. She's the mother for whom her son throws elaborate parties. One time he created a shtetl on a sound stage to remind his mother of her father's Russian roots. "They had live chickens and goats," she says, "and dancers and lots of vodka." Spielberg unabashedly adores his mother. "There's no way for me to be closer to her," he testifies, "except to live inside her. Which I've already done...
...simple enough: get the dinosaurs off the island to run rampant in a big city, a la King Kong and Godzilla. But Michael Crichton's follow-up to his best-selling novel was less a continuation of the original than a rewrite. It provided just two notions that excited Spielberg: the existence of a secret island where the DNA dinos had been created, and a set piece where a T. rex tries pushing a trailer off a cliff after its babies are threatened by scientists...
...Spielberg and screenwriter David Koepp fashioned a new story. Says producer Kathleen Kennedy: "In the same way Michael doesn't see writing as a collaboration, Steven went off and did his own movie. When Michael turned the book over to Steven, he knew his work was finished." The author was never consulted about the sequel, nor was he sent a script until he held back approval of certain merchandising rights. But Crichton now sounds sanguine about the process. "When I write," he says, "I have to have the book be exactly the way I want it to be, and that...
...film, a T. rex does get off the island--to San Diego. "It was something I was saving for a third Lost World movie," Spielberg confides. "When I realized that I would probably leave that directing job to someone else, I selfishly wanted to see the action of a T. rex stomping down a suburban street chomping homeowners." He believes the sequel's dinosaur robots--some of which cost $1 million each and weighed 9 1/2 tons--are more dynamic than those in the original film. "The animals are more involved in helping to tell the story," he says. "They...