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Indie auteurs, consider this advice from Hollywood's ultimate insider. "Your lean budgets and low 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...
...Hollywood, slavery and its infamous legacy have begun to serve as outlets for ambitious filmmaking, whether through wrenching visual impact or intense emotional experience. In recent memory, Edward Zwick delved into the psyche of the black soldier for his sweeping Civil War epic Glory, while Steven Spielberg intertwined visually jarring images of slavery with courtroom drama in Amistad...
Thoughts and breath float down a golden saxophone and emerge as hundreds of liquid moans and cataclysmic rhythms on a night made for jazz. The Mama Kin Playhouse (owned by Steven Tyler of Aerosmith, of all people) presented Ravi Coltrane. As the son of John Coltrane, the legendary jazz musician, Ravi is making the saxophone a treasured trademark of the Coltrane family and also creating his own style. Dapper suits and casual jeans, cocktail dresses and T-shirts all stepped into the dim club with a quiet sophistication...
Stay home. Waste time. Enjoy yourself. That new show, Felicity, on WB--it's really that good. Trust us. And the Real World's right after. See if Steven is going to bitch-slap any more roommates. 9 p.m., in your room. FREE (after purchase...
...over the years I've also watched Oprah grow increasingly narcissistic and self-centered. When Steven Spielberg was a guest on her show last year, Oprah interrupted the director of Schindler's List to share with the audience excerpts from the journal she kept during the making of The Color Purple. We learned that Oprah was nervous before the filming began and impressed with her own performance. When John F. Kennedy Jr. came on the show, she could not fail to mention that she and Maria Shriver were the best of friends. Surprise, surprise. Two wealthy and prominent women obsessed...