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...genre also demands chases, to which Spielberg brings his inexhaustible ingenuity: Anderton literally car hopping on the skyscraper highway, dragging his favorite precog (spooky Samantha Morton) through a mall, eluding his nemesis Witwer (inevitable star-to-be Colin Farrell) in a car factory, where a vehicle is assembled with our hero inside. But Spielberg is also keen to distinguish movie spectacle from moral dilemmas. Faced with irresistible impulse, he says, we can choose to resist it. Try to think of the last film in which the hero has the chance to kill a man he believes abducted and murdered...
Imagine for a moment that you're Steven Spielberg. Go ahead. It's fun! You've got fabulous wealth, two Best Director Oscars, seven kids and Tom Cruise's home phone number. What are you going to do now? Buy Disney World? Nope. On May 31, the director, 55, realized a different dream: he finally got his college diploma. Thanks to extension courses, he now has a B.A. in film and electronic arts from California State University at Long Beach...
...episodes for Universal Studios for $225 a week. He says he went back to get his degree because he wanted to please his father and because "I had children of my own. They had been grousing as they got older, 'Well, Dad never finished college, and he did fine.'" Spielberg benefited from some advanced placement: he got credit for Amistad and Schindler's List, but he had to write a paper on paleontology. "For some reason," he says, "Jurassic Park was too apocryphal to count for credit." No doubt the diploma will open up countless new opportunities...
Minority Report represents something of a risk. It's being released in the most competitive summer Hollywood has ever experienced, but Spielberg is optimistic. "This should happen every summer," says the director who practically invented the blockbuster with Jaws in 1975. "We should be so lucky. You go to these multiplexes, and you see Spider-Man. Then you see Y Tu Mama Tambien playing next door. A hit movie puts people in a movie mood." Audiences will notice that this is Spielberg's edgiest action movie yet. They will also see that his talent for blending extraordinary visions with everyday...
When he's not directing, Spielberg spends a lot of time pursuing charitable projects--he recently helped start a digital library to preserve Yiddish books--and running DreamWorks, the studio he co-founded in 1994. He has already wrapped his next picture, Catch Me If You Can, an adventure based on the true story of a 1960s counterfeiter, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hanks. He is also planning a fourth Indiana Jones movie for 2005. "I met my wife on the second one," says Spielberg, "so the happiest memory of my entire life came from that film. That...