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...street and hear the rush of a tail-finned T-Bird cruising by, with Elvis and Buddy Holly blasting from the radio through tinny pre-Dolby speakers. Many of the streets are laid out in that cookie-cutter pattern of curves and cul-de-sacs familiar from Steven Spielberg movies. You know the scene: a tract-house version of the Norman Rockwell family seated at the breakfast table, dog in the corner waiting breathlessly for some scraps. In the congestion of all these American icons, say hello to Moreno Valley in the 1990s...
...true: the gang's all here. O.K., Scorsese had to be dragged kicking and equivocating into the movie; De Niro kept cajoling the director, and Spielberg, whose Amblin Entertainment produced the film, kept encouraging him to try a mainstream thriller. Even during shooting he seemed defensive. "This is only a remake," Scorsese said on the set in Florida, "an extension of the themes in the 1962 original. Look at this scene we're doing: man picks up rock, hits bad guy." But by now, as he fine-tunes Cape Fear for release next week, it is uniquely Scorsese's picture...
Even with computers, top-of-the-line camcorders and the latest editing devices, a Spielberg wannabe can gear up for under $15,000, which is less than the studios spend for a couple of weeks' catered meals for the real Spielberg's crew. The lowered cost of entry has encouraged all sorts of people to go into business -- full time or on the side -- taping everything from rock concerts to legal depositions. "All of a sudden I can give my videos the slick look TV audiences expect," says Jim Watt, a self-employed "videographer" who worked at NBC News...
...hoping to surpass even these triumphs in such upcoming films as Star Trek 6, Memoirs of an Invisible Man and Steven Spielberg's Hook. Special- effects fans can look forward to more strange, mind-boggling characters; worlds that alter their shape, color and form; and, perhaps most amazing, flights of fancy so realistic that audiences won't ever suspect they're seeing an act of industrial imagination...
Orlando's rococo industry of make-believe has put some zip into local gossip columns. Hollywood celebrities pop up regularly. Some, like Steven Spielberg and Robert Earl, the British mastermind behind the international chain of Hard Rock Cafes, have even bought homes in Orlando. The area, says Earl, is "full of millionaires driving trucks and wearing jeans...