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...Life as Steven Soderbergh then knew it came to end when he was 12 years old. He had been quite a baseball player, one of the best you could find among the boys in Baton Rouge, La. But in 1975 his talent mysteriously disappeared. "I woke up one morning, and I didn't have it," he recalls. "And I knew that I wasn't gonna be able to get it back. Whatever the thing was, it was just gone...
...different style for every movie," says Michael Douglas, who stars in Traffic as the father of a teenage junkie (Erika Christensen) and--watch out for falling irony--the nation's newly appointed drug czar. "Steven jumps from one venue to another better than anybody." When the Hollywood Foreign Press Association handed down its Golden Globe nominations for 2000, Soderbergh's amazing versatility was rewarded with two directing nods--one for Traffic and one for Erin Brockovich. Which means that as the Oscar race heats up, Soderbergh is facing off against himself...
...people can tell stories," says Roberts, who will join Clooney and Brad Pitt in Soderbergh's upcoming remake of the 1960 Rat Pack heist flick Ocean's Eleven, "but a lot of people can't rally the troops the way Steven does. He's the most fun guy to make a movie with." Roberts and the Erin Brockovich crew tested his good humor on the set by taking snapshots of one another looking horrified and putting this caption on the series: "Just saw Kafka...
THEN AGAIN... We wouldn't want to keep a good director from making a living. Merhige and writer Steven Katz have fashioned a wicked homage to the dank nuttiness of filmmaking--and to the notion that movies can suck the life out of those who make them, even as they give life to those who see them. Besides, Dafoe is one fetid mesmerizer. When an actress recoils from doing a scene with Schreck, Murnau lightly advises, "Relax and let the vampire do all the work." Dafoe does that, brilliantly blending comedy with the melancholy of the damned...
...film is well made by Steven Soderbergh, who handheld his own camera and often edits in an artless, documentary style. The picture is full of strong, soberly realistic performances; its melodramatic beats are not too many and, in context, not particularly overstated. Finally, though, Traffic, for all its earnestness, does not work. It leaves one feeling restless and dissatisfied...