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...risks offer you a gift of a lifetime," says Steven Spielberg, "and if your first few films are very successful, it might be the last time you enjoy those gifts. At first you get to make your movies from the protoplasm of your creativity, intuition and passion. That virgin spring starts to dry up once the offers flood in; now you're adapting the dreams of others and, pretty soon, simply working for hire. It sometimes takes massive success to force yourselves back into your original delivery rooms where you can once again work comfortably from your hearts and guts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: In A League Of Their Own | 10/12/1998 | See Source »

After the speeches, a line formed at the single microphone in the center aisle as audience members asked whether the speakers' arguments for the existence of God can be used as arguments for the existence of UFOs, and where Jesus got his y-chromosome if his mother was a virgin...

Author: By Erica R. Michelstein, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Nicholi Lectures on Moral Law | 10/6/1998 | See Source »

...with his chic discoverers. Much more fun--as always in Waters' genially transgressive movies--are the rich portrayals of his fellow Baltimoreans, among them Christina Ricci's Laundromat Nazi, Mary Kay Place's fashion-forward thrift-shop owner and Jean Schertler's goofy grandma using a statue of the Virgin Mary to practice some pious ventriloquism. Check...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Pecker | 10/5/1998 | See Source »

...captain of the first team of women to live beneath the ocean's surface; the five aquanauts spent two weeks in an underwater laboratory off the U.S. Virgin Islands in 1970. She has gone on at least 50 expeditions and spent more than 6,000 hours undersea, including a record-setting solo descent to 3,000 ft. in a submersible craft known as Deep Rover. In the 1979 dive that gave her the royal nickname, she became the mirror image, and the equal, of the moonwalkers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SYLVIA EARLE : Call Of The Sea | 10/5/1998 | See Source »

Among the characters are Stella-Virgin and Donatello-My-Wife, but Pudding staff said the authors began writing the script long before President Clinton's sex life was a national focus...

Author: By M. DOUGLAS Omalley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Hasty Pudding Chooses Political Spoof for 151st Show | 9/21/1998 | See Source »

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