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...fair, but that's the way it is. GARY OLDMAN apparently had no idea. The British star of The Contender says he signed on believing that his character, G.O.P. congressional inquisitor Shelly Runyon, was "the only true patriot in the film." Three guys, named Katzenberg, Spielberg and Geffen--who happen to be distributing The Contender--as well as director Rod Lurie, a self-proclaimed "die-hard liberal," saw it differently. The result is a predictably left-leaning movie that has Oldman and manager Douglas Urbanski seething. Urbanski, who has a producer credit on The Contender, tells Premiere the finished product...
...talking about social calls, the First Couple has racked up an impressive list of friends: Top donors and Lincoln Bedroom visitors include Hollywood heavyweight Steven Spielberg, SlimFast foods magnate S. Daniel Abraham and Rockland County Democratic chair Paul Adler, who, according to the New York Times, gave early and often to Mrs. Clinton's Senate campaign...
Conspicuously absent from the bitter end were Pop's architects: Spielberg, Howard, DreamWorks pals Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen and Howard's partner Brian Grazer. Pulling the plug and skipping the farewell party were among the few things in Pop's short and troubled history that found all five in agreement. "Thank God I've got another occupation," says Grazer. "I love going from foxhole to foxhole in movies and television, but the Internet space is Vietnam...
...Spielberg, it seems, gave up much earlier than Howard. Even his suggestions were halfhearted: one was an animated short called From Hair to Eternity about a man who seeks an unblocked view of a movie (Jurassic Park it ain't); the other was to place a webcam on the set of his film A.I. and broadcast live images of the crew on lunch breaks. None of the principals could decide on Pop's overall style, or even which ideas to pursue, "We'd go through the slate of projects and Steven would like this, Ron would like this, Jeffrey liked...
...donkey." The final ignominy came when indie start-ups iFilm and Atom Films negotiated to buy Pop, but no deal materialized. And so Pop was laid to rest, its tombstone a warning to all those in Tinseltown who would jump on the Internet without first understanding it. If Spielberg and Howard own the story rights to Pop's internal wranglings, however, they might yet have a winner...