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...next few minutes. Fortunately, Amanda Vender of the TIME News Desk found me a tape recorder and expertly hooked it up to my office phone. Luckily too, DiCaprio was agreeable and articulate, ready to discuss his two big Christmas films, Martin Scorsese's "Gangs of New York" and Steven Spielberg's "Catch Me if You Can" for a half-hour or more...
CATCH ME IF YOU CAN STARRING: Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hanks, Christopher Walken, Martin Sheen DIRECTED BY: Steven Spielberg...
...staple of our popular culture, comedy division, is the Road Runner--Wile E. Coyote duel, in which the cheerful little beeper continually eludes the inept but monomaniacal chasings of the pursuing varmint. Another less often noted but more sober pop-cultural theme is Steven Spielberg's obsession with children (E.T., Empire of the Sun, et al.) who as a result of either death or divorce are bereft of conventional parenting and wonder if they can successfully make it to maturity. It is the business of Catch Me If You Can to meld these two subgenres in a single film...
Here the film, written with unforced ease by Jeff Nathanson and directed in the same graceful spirit by Spielberg, makes its largest fictional leap; it conflates several FBI pursuers into one. But that's more than all right, because Carl Hanratty is wonderfully played by Tom Hanks. He wears half-horn-rims and a dorky little hat, speaks in a grating Boston accent and tends to spend his Christmas Eves at the office eating Chinese takeout and obsessing about Abagnale. It's a delicious comic portrayal, though not more so than Leonardo DiCaprio's charming impersonation of Abagnale, which...
...Television Arts Fellowship for his "outstanding contribution to world cinema"; in London. Mills won an Oscar in 1971 for his performance in Ryan's Daughter, and was knighted five years later for his service to film. Previous winners of the Fellowship award include Charlie Chaplin, Stanley Kubrick and Steven Spielberg...