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...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's List established the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, which records the testimony of Holocaust survivors. In April its first film won a Peabody Award...
...scene the faces of the slaves are to be lighted by a lantern carried by one of the crew. But it isn't working. "Let me do the light myself," Spielberg says, holding the lantern so that the slaves' tortured faces are perfectly illuminated. He even shoots a second-unit "insert" scene of a crumpled letter tossed onto a table. "I like to sweat the details," he says. "The second-unit stuff is what makes the audience eat the popcorn faster. Making a movie and not directing the little moments is like drinking a soda and leaving the little slurp...
Hillside Cleaners, on the other hand, charges $15.95 for a storage unit that fits about 25 pieces of clothing. This deal comes with a $100 insurance policy but requires a minimum dry cleaning...
...most popular units with college students are the 5'x5'x4' model, which rents for $42 per month, and the 5'x10'x4' unit, which goes for $60 per month. The larger unit holds 25 to 30 boxes, making it an ideal space to share with several other students...
...even weirder at Warner. Harry Warner, the studio's money czar, said he knew nothing about his cartoon unit except that "we make Mickey Mouse." Leon Schlesinger, the stingy despot who ran the unit until 1944, would begin his viewing of dailies with a curt "Roll the garbage." Schlesinger did inspire his troops once: his lisp was the basis for Daffy Duck's voice. Schlesinger's successor, Eddie Selzer, hated the notion that his slaves might enjoy their work. He once sputtered, "What the hell has all this laughter to do with the making of animated cartoons...