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...half years, the city government, police department and citizens groups laid the groundwork for community policing by "establishing liaisons," instituting small programs, and "organizing local outreaches," says CPD Lt. Steven Williams, Cambridge's community policing coordinator...
...case of Amistad is far more troubling. Lest anyone forget, President Clinton has called for a national dialogue on race, and Steven Spielberg's re-telling of a 19th century slaveship rebellion looks as if it may be embraced as the vehicle for bringing that dialogue to the wider public. Beginning with Newsweek a month before the film was released, the media has run countless features accompanied by commentaries discussing the state of race relations in this country. It is interesting to note that while these high-falutin' societal spreads have universally praised the movie as an extraordinary achievement, only...
...extraordinarily important film, perhaps the most important film of my career." --Steven Spielberg on Amistad...
Henry cursed his luck. If he couldn't trust Steven Spielberg to provide responsible promotional materials, whom could he trust? Now he would have to hike on over to the Huntington library and laboriously research the episode on his own. Henry knew there were plenty of books and essays on the Amistad mutiny (although in Hollywood's view, a historical episode has been forgotten, even repressed, if a movie hasn't been made about it), but it was a colossal waste of his discretionary time to do corrective research. Henry shuddered at the memory of the week JFK opened...
...Amistad Again Steven Spielberg puts his craftsmanship in the service of moral seriousness. Again, in this true tale of a slave mutiny and its nightmare aftermath, he creates a gripping portrait of human decency mobilized to help an inhumanly abused minority. Again he unsentimentally places us in touch with our best sentiments...