Word: steven
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Steven A. Stepanian II Pittsburgh
...depository" for children's fingerprints and other identifying information, claiming that the records would never be used against them if their fingerprints turned up in later criminal investigations. Two weeks ago, after a furious public debate, a new law ordered the depository to shut down. Says a relieved Steven Brown, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union in Rhode Island: "Parents were in essence waiving their children's privacy and freedom from selfincrimination. They can't do that, even though they are parents." Bills setting up guidelines for fingerprinting children are pending in several state legislatures...
...keep the 36th International Film Festival-the world's largest and most glamorous meeting of movie professionals-from developing a giant, 13-day hangover. Last year Cannes sailed through sunny weather and provocative films to a memorable festival, capped by a rapturous reception for the world premiere of Steven Spielberg's E.T. At this year's meeting, some 35,000 of the faithful staggered through chills and intermittent rain, through failures of organization and not a few fiascoes onscreen...
...Empire Strikes Back, which suffered from a hectic, muddled pace, together with the classic problems of being the second act in a three-act play. "I think Jedi is the best Star Wars movie ever made, and it is definitely going to be the most successful," says Director Steven Spielberg, who as one of Lucas' closest friends is admittedly biased. "The first movie was the introduction; Empire was the second-act conflict. But they were mere canapes for this third-act opus. This is the definitive Star Wars...
...shares with his friend Steven Spielberg (E.T.) the title "Mr. Blockbuster." Besides Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back, which rank No. 2 and No. 3 in receipts, he drew up the plot of and produced No. 5, Raiders of the Lost Ark. In addition, an earlier film, American Graffiti (1973), loosely modeled on his own adolescence in Modesto, Calif., ranks as one of the most profitable films in Hollywood history. It cost Universal Pictures only $780,000 to produce, but it has already returned $145 million worldwide...