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Question: How much time did network newscasts devote to last week's announcement that the so-called "dream team" of David Geffen, Jeffrey Katzenberg and Steven Spielberg would be joining with Capital Cities/ABC, Inc., to produce a wide array of television programming...
...Sidney Sheinberg -- the longest-running partnership in Hollywood -- have been heading the studio, but have openly complained that their pushes to go after CBS and to open a theme park in Tokyo were ignored. The Japanese firm is especially eager to keep the team intact since director Steven Spielberg, who made close to $1 billion for MCA with Jurassic Park, recently announced that he would stop working for the company if his mentor, Sheinberg, were to leave...
...script for ER had been sitting in Crichton's trunk since 1974, when the former Harvard medical student wrote it as a movie screenplay. It languished until the late 1980s, when Steven Spielberg read it and got interested. But Spielberg was more interested in another Crichton project -- Jurassic Park -- and ER sat around for a few more years, until someone at Spielberg's Amblin Productions suggested turning it into a TV pilot. "Almost nothing was changed," says Crichton, "except cleaning up the language...
...series, taking part in some story meetings and watching the "dailies" -- footage from each day's shooting. "I get notes on dailies that he's written at 4 a.m.," says fellow executive producer John Wells, a former China Beach hand who was brought in to run the show. Spielberg too has been a surprisingly active presence. Supervising producer Robert Nathan says that for one episode he wrote, Spielberg sent him three-page memos on each draft of the script. Later Spielberg watched the rough cut and offered more suggestions. "He was amazing," says Nathan. "He would look at a scene...
...Clooney, as playboy pediatrician Dr. Doug Ross, is the most traditional hunk of the bunch, but the actor is self-effacing to a fault. "The writers are so good that even I can't screw up," he says. "For an old TV actor, it's great to have Steven Spielberg and Michael Crichton come by and talk to you. It's so nice to be on a quality show. You can hold your head high...