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When director Steven Spielberg was a teenager, he had a memorable encounter with his hero, the legendary John Ford. The aspiring filmmaker and the aging icon discovered they had something very special in common: a fascination with...
...their house is being haunted. She soon discovers that her perfect husband is not so perfect after all, and the ghost that's haunting them may or may not be the spirit of a murdered student her husband once had an affair with. Based on an idea by Steven Spielberg, the film promises to be a sly adventure, full of twists and surprises, comparable to The Sixth Sense. Zemekis has wrapped his production in a shroud of secrecy, although the film is said to boast computer effects and shocks in the tradition of his earlier films Forrest Gump...
...read Daniel P. Mannix's Those About to Die, a briskly lurid history of the Roman games. "It really made a connection between that era and ours," Franzoni says, "about how sports heroes are slavishly worshiped by their fans." A few years ago, while writing his script for Steven Spielberg's Amistad, he worked on an idea about gladiators as "commercialized idols, their endorsements on frescoes, chariots and jars of olive oil." When Scott was hired, he brought in John Logan (Any Given Sunday) to create Maximus' life as a slave and playwright William Nicholson (Shadowlands) for further character shadings...
Stevens said that a search committee considered Steven Spielberg and Matt Damon as possible speakers before aiming their efforts at Brokaw, the longtime NBC anchor. One search committee member is a friend of Brokaw, making it easier to convince him to speak at CRLS rather than at numerous other WWII graduation ceremonies taking place across the country...
...film rests on the shoulders and taut torso of Bale, who as a child starred in Steven Spielberg's Empire of the Sun and played Jesus in a recent TV movie. His Patrick is stylish and creepy--Jack the Ripper in an Armani outfit. Bale's dishy anonymity (he stares at himself and says, "I simply am not there") makes him the ideal black hole at the center of this movie. It needs to be seen and appreciated, like a serpent in a glass cage...