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...Steven Spielberg has a cute bald spot--a silver-dollar-size patch of arid land on the otherwise fertile scalp that sheathes his even more fertile brain. When making movies he covers it with a studio-issue baseball cap, but certain formal occasions call for cagier camouflage. On Oscar night 1994, when Schindler's List won seven awards (including Best Picture and Best Director) and Jurassic Park took three others, a makeup artist sprayed Spielberg's bald spot with hair-colored paint. No problem, until half an hour into the post-Oscar party, by which time the star...
Spielberg, whose net worth Forbes recently estimated at $1 billion, may be immune to those temporal lead weights; the fellow who makes movies everyone wants to see is not like everyone else. "People like Steven don't come along every day," says his friend and frequent collaborator George Lucas, "and when they do, it's an amazing thing. It's like talking about Einstein or Babe Ruth or Tiger Woods. He's not in a group of filmmakers his age; he's far, far away...
During his downtime, Spielberg wasn't exactly lying in a hammock monitoring cloud patterns. As the head of Amblin Entertainment he shepherded a passel of hit movies, including The Flintstones, Casper and Twister. He helped develop TV's ER, masterminded a CD-ROM (Steven Spielberg's Directors Chair) and oversaw the giddy, multithrill Jurassic Park ride at Universal Studios, Hollywood. Oh, yes, he also started, with Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen, a little outfit called DreamWorks SKG; Spielberg oversees the live-action film unit. And in the noblest spin-off generated by a hit movie, the director of Schindler...
...Soleil over there," says Hanks, a neighbor and close friend) is managed by Capshaw and a live-in couple in the Spielbergs' palatial home in the Los Angeles suburb of Pacific Palisades. "I really love the diaper part," Kate says, "the rocking and the lunch menus. The things Steven does are the things he can do uniquely: telling stories and drawing creatures I could never imagine...
...Judge Steven Herrera, Tuesday, commenting on the case of Roger Katz. The former Santa Fe school teacher defended himself from the charge of criminal sexual penetration of a former student by explaining that she saved his life in 640 A.D., and that he was merely showing his gratitude...