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...company he partly owns, which has not been embraced by major hardware manufacturers. The director's spokesman says he's merely waiting for millions more consumers to buy the players: "It's a question of the marketplace maturing, and Steven feels very strongly about it." One Amblin title, Twister, slipped out "under the radar" through Warner Home Video, but other films made for various studios are being held back. "Why would we want to upset Spielberg?" asks an exec from Universal, which owns rights to Jaws but won't release it for fear of alienating the man responsible for many...
There were stories of survival too improbable for Hollywood. After a twister ripped off the roof of Steve Mitchell's house in the Flamingo Lakes subdivision near Kissimmee, Mitchell found his 8-year-old son still sleeping safely--and soundly--in his room. There were, of course, tales of tragedy as well. Five-year-old Ashley Himes was the sole survivor after a tornado ripped apart her family's triple-wide mobile home in Sanford, in Seminole County. Her mother Penny Hall, 21, her mother's fiance Kevin Taylor, 23, and her grandparents Edward and Debra Hall were all killed...
Last Monday, 18-month-old Jonathan Waldick of Kissimmee, Fla., was asleep, wrapped in a blanket, when a tornado roared through his room. After the twister passed, Waldick's great-grandmother, Shirley Driver, along with several neighbors, began a frantic search...
...care about this as long as he's here," said Driver, as she surveyed the damage left in the twister's wake. "It is a miracle of miracles because only God saved him from what I am seeing...
...others, however, uncertainty persists. J. David Hampton `00, whose hometown of Kissimmee was buffeted by a twister, has been unable to reach his family by phone since before Monday...