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...ANGELES: Steven Spielberg says the slave drama "Amistad," set to be released Wednesday, might be "the most important (film) of my career." Novelist Barbara Chase-Riboud, who wrote about the same slave-ship rebellion in her 1989 book "Echo of Lions," thinks it's the most important film of hers...
...senior gift co-chairs, Alice S. Lee '98 and Steven R. Hill '98, live in Adams A-21 and A-14, respectively. Hill was the only male applicant for the position, which is always filled by one man and one woman, while Lee was chosen from two female candidates...
...they were delivered, each infant--Kenneth Robert (a.k.a. Hercules), then Alexis May, Natalie Sue, Kelsey Ann, Brandon James, Nathan Roy and, finally, Joel Steven--was taken to an adjacent room, placed on a warmer bed and given a ventilator tube and an intravenous line; then each was moved to the intensive care unit at the Blank Hospital. All the babies were initially listed in serious condition, which is actually better than expected, considering they were 10 weeks premature. Joel was briefly downgraded to critical on Wednesday because of blood loss. But by evening he had rebounded...
...being a guy to being the Guy. Damon has begun a run of major Hollywood star turns, starting with Francis Ford Coppola's The Rainmaker, following with the December release of Gus Van Sant's Good Will Hunting (from a script Damon co-wrote) and continuing next June with Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan...
...making Amistad, his forthcoming film about a 19th century slave rebellion, Steven Spielberg faced the difficult task of shaping a coherent narrative out of history, always a tricky business, given the manifold ambiguities and contradictions of human behavior. A similar task awaits whoever gets to adjudicate a recently filed lawsuit alleging that Spielberg and his colleagues are, to put it baldly, plagiarists--that they swiped their vision of the Amistad tale from Echo of Lions, a little-known historical novel by Barbara Chase-Riboud...