Word: spielbergisms
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...honest, I really don’t like Steven Spielberg. He’s simplistic, condescending and, the odd for-the-ages shot aside, he isn’t a very original or intelligent director. Even at age nine, I had my suspicions about Hook’s ghastliness, and I haven’t been encouraged recently by his frustratingly derivative war movie Saving Private Ryan and godawful sequel to the so-so Jurassic Park. Over at his five-year-old production company Dreamworks SKG, Spielberg has encouraged the production of some of the more overrated studio films...
...embarrass itself in Spielberg’s traditional and self-importantly mawkish fashion. The story is a simple one—boy (Elliot, played by Henry Thomas) meets alien (E.T.), boy befriends alien, boy helps alien escape the authorities and return to his people. Within this framework, Spielberg and screenwriter Melissa Mathison craft a fair tolerance parable that teaches its lesson with brevity...
...music players for non-Mac-user friends and myself for Christmas. But these were just appetizers. The new iMac is the main course. The innovative design and the affordable price make this product a winner! With iPhoto and iMovie, now everyone can be an Ansel Adams or a Steven Spielberg--almost. The only question is what Apple will offer its users for dessert. GLORIA KUO Hong Kong...
...more plausible, if not acceptable, reason for Ambrose's heist is suggested in a photo showing him standing proudly between Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg, who have mined his books for their projects. Never mind that an awaiting Hollywood checkbook makes haste and waste. The whole culture of movie-making runs counter to writing. Lifting others' material in Hollywood is de rigueur, or do I mean homage? He who steals my purse steals garbage, but my word? Whoa, Nellie...
...extended, not obliterated, by even the most radical new readings. It is said he was so annoyed by Elvis Presley's 1957 version of "White Christmas" that he financed a call-in campaign to have the song pulled from radio stations. In the late 80s Berlin turned down Steven Spielberg's pleas to use "Always" as the theme for a film of the same title, saying that he had his own plans for the song. The composer was 90 at the time. (Spielberg substituted Kern's "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes...