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With Stephen Spielberg's recent purchase of therights to the movie and the antics of America'sfavorite pop icon, Madonna the simplecinderella-like plot of Memoirs promises tobe the year's great multimedia phenomenon. Ms.Ciccone appeared on the February cover ofHarper's Bazaar clad in a black kimono(Jean Paul Gaultier) and with the pale face, darkhair and red lips characteristic of a geisha. Inthe article "Like A Geisha," written by DaisanMcLane, Madonna likens what she does to "being amodern-day geisha...
...Steven Spielberg has been nominated as both director and producer of Saving Private Ryan. Critics have been promulgating the notion, which Spielberg in interviews appears to encourage, that the film has redeemed selfish baby boomers by forcing them to acknowledge their parents' sacrifices--as if baby boomers hadn't grown up reading Sgt. Rock and listening to the fakey tromp-tromp sound effect of marching Nazi soldiers on all those episodes of The World at War. But people these days seem to think of Spielberg less as a filmmaker than as a healer of deep historical wounds (don't forget...
...elderly man tells his grandchildren a primal tale of abduction and escape. It could be a Steven Spielberg film, and is: Spielberg served as executive producer of this expertly assembled memoir of the Holocaust years. Five Hungarian Jews, including California Congressman Tom Lantos (the grandfather), recount their near death adventures with passion and great storytelling skill. A woman recalls thinking that the Nazis had robbed her of family, money, dignity--"but they're not gonna take my soul." That collective soul lives on here...
...package. Gwyneth Paltrow is simply more engaging than Cate Blanchett is, though perhaps the fault lies with the screenplay and cinematography rather than with the innate abilities of the actresses. Paltrow, Rush, and Dench will compete for the little golden boys on Oscar night. But if pitted against Spielberg and a world war, they would probably have to defer to Goliath this time around...
...seven clients with ties to both CAA and Ovitz's new AMG were appalled at their predicament. The rest of the town was enthralled. THE GREAT CAA-OVITZ WAR: WHOSE SIDE ARE YOU ON?, blared the Hollywood Reporter. Would Madonna make the leap? (Maybe, maybe not.) Would Spielberg? (Absolutely not, he said, since CAA packaged his hit Saving Private Ryan.) But of the seven who got the ultimatum, director Martin Scorsese and actors Marisa Tomei and Mimi Rogers have joined the Ovitz roster. CAA may yet lose the four others--director Sydney Pollack and actors Claire Danes, Minnie Driver...