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Spielberg, whose net worth Forbes recently estimated at $1 billion, may be immune to those temporal lead weights; the fellow who makes movies everyone wants to see is not like everyone else. "People like Steven don't come along every day," says his friend and frequent collaborator George Lucas, "and when they do, it's an amazing thing. It's like talking about Einstein or Babe Ruth or Tiger Woods. He's not in a group of filmmakers his age; he's far, far away...
During his downtime, Spielberg wasn't exactly lying in a hammock monitoring cloud patterns. As the head of Amblin Entertainment he shepherded a passel of hit movies, including The Flintstones, Casper and Twister. He helped develop TV's ER, masterminded a CD-ROM (Steven Spielberg's Directors Chair) and oversaw the giddy, multithrill Jurassic Park ride at Universal Studios, Hollywood. Oh, yes, he also started, with Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen, a little outfit called DreamWorks SKG; Spielberg oversees the live-action film unit. And in the noblest spin-off generated by a hit movie, the director of Schindler...
...Soleil over there," says Hanks, a neighbor and close friend) is managed by Capshaw and a live-in couple in the Spielbergs' palatial home in the Los Angeles suburb of Pacific Palisades. "I really love the diaper part," Kate says, "the rocking and the lunch menus. The things Steven does are the things he can do uniquely: telling stories and drawing creatures I could never imagine...
...kitchen." On one wall hangs a large board that notes everyone's activities, from karate lessons and art classes to Dad's location shoots; nearby, behind safety glass, is one of the original balsa-wood Rosebud sleds from Citizen Kane. "There's also this couch," says Capshaw, "which is Steven Central. He has a bunch of scripts to read, and tapes--casting reels, dailies, bits of animation--that he pops into the VCR. But if one of the kids asks him to build a castle, he's immediately down on the floor, building that castle. The kid runs away, Steven...
...DreamWorks when he glanced at his daily log and saw that "every meeting I had scheduled had nothing to do with directing movies. That's when I realized that what I do best is what my partners would want me to do: direct." Katzenberg agrees. "The best thing Steven can do for us is to stay on a movie set," he says. Spielberg's deal with DreamWorks is that he will direct one film "at home" for every two he makes outside. Amistad is a DreamWorks venture; The Lost World is for Universal, and Saving Private Ryan is co-produced...