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 Steven Spielberg -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Spielberg used Hanks again in 2004 for (additional info and facts about The Terminal) The Terminal, the story of an (additional info and facts about East European) East European traveller living in an (A terminal that serves air travelers or air freight) airport terminal.
Spielberg is currently married to (additional info and facts about Kate Capshaw) Kate Capshaw, whom he cast in Indiana Jones and the Temple Of Doom.
Spielberg had a cameo role as the (additional info and facts about Cook County) Cook County assessor in the last minutes of the 1980 film (additional info and facts about The Blues Brothers) The Blues Brothers.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/st/steven_spielberg.htm   (1944 words)

  
 Schindler's List (Spielberg -- review)
Spielberg, who also put his own money into its production, is a filmmaker at the top of his form, dealing with a topic near to his heart.
Spielberg peoples his story with Nazis who drink to excess, whore and womanize at every opportunity, offer and accept bribes as a natural part of life during wartime, follow orders without question, and cut every corner that will make their lives easier.
Spielberg leaves nothing to chance, however, and in what otherwise could have been one of the films most gripping scenes, has the camera linger voyeuristically on Helen Hirsch, as she pulls off her blouse in the undressing room before entering the shower at Birkenau.
www.ihr.org /jhr/v14/v14n3p-7_Raven.html   (2539 words)

  
 Steven Spielberg Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Spielberg is known by film historians as one of the famous "film-school generation" (also known as "the movie brats" or "the New Hollywood") of the 1970s: along with fellow filmmakers (and personal friends) George Lucas, Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, John Milius, and Brian De Palma, Spielberg grew up making movies.
Spielberg has been married to actress Kate Capshaw, whom he met when he casted her in Indiana Jones and the Temple Of Doom since 12 October 1991.
Spielberg is expected to make a cameo appearance within an episode of the second season of Extras, the BBC comedy TV series written and directed by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant (previously responsible for The Office).
www.alienartifacts.com /encyclopedia/Steven_Spielberg   (2991 words)

  
 Metroactive Movies | Steven Spielberg
Spielberg, an admitted "control freak," was busy tailoring his history from the beginning, lying about his age so that he could get credit for making his first movie before he hit 21.
Spielberg's other sorrow, his parents' divorce, is reflected, says McBride, in the director's frequent images of broken families, visible from one end of the director's work to the other.
At his worst, Spielberg's the Norman Rockwell of the movies, a filmmaker for the reading-impaired and the television-addicted, fascinated by the homily, the food fight, the swelling violins, the fat-boy joke and the resurrection.
www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/05.29.97/spielberg-9722.html   (2352 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Steven Spielberg (Film, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Spielberg began his career as a television director, admired for his understanding portrayal of human character.
Spielberg's love of older movies was demonstrated with his serial-inspired trilogy of movies featuring Indiana Jones.
He subsequently examined a ghastly future world of neurotic humans and sentient robots (the result of a collaboration with Stanley Kubrick) in A.I. (2001), for which he also wrote the screenplay, and portrayed another dark sci-fi future in which crime is detected and stopped before it is committed in the allegory-thriller Minority Report (2002).
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 35 Who Made a Difference: Steven Spielberg   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Working extensively with a hand-held camera and functioning almost as a documentarian, Spielberg, understanding how important it was to show the casualness of the nightmare, had the nerve to simply let those dreadful scenes play out without special emphasis.
The son of a World War II combat veteran, Spielberg was determined to trivialize neither the nature of war nor what it does to participants.
Spielberg got so close to the chaos of warfare that the film led veterans who had never spoken to their children about combat to do so.
www.smithsonianmag.si.edu /smithsonian/issues05/nov05/35_spielberg.html   (646 words)

  
 Spielberg
Dedicated to oral health and brightening smiles, Dr. Alena R. Spielberg, DMD completed her dental training at the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine, with two additional years of training in orthodontics at Tufts University School of Dental Medicine in Boston, Massachusetts.
Spielberg is a member of the American Association of Orthodontists and the American Dental Association.
Spielberg grew up in Southern New Jersey with her brother and sister, and in addition to her dental education, she received a BS in mathematics from Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.
www.spielberg-ortho.com   (152 words)

  
 Lucas vs. Spielberg - The worst best friends in Hollywood. By Tom Shone
Spielberg had been rejected from UCLA because of poor grades and had enrolled instead in the rudimentary film course at California State College at Long Beach.
Of the two, Spielberg was the one willing to assume the submissive position, mostly in the form of overzealous praise for his friend.
But Spielberg felt "a tuxedo is a uniform, and it's hard to reach through a uniform to a personality," and transformed Indy into a rumpled bum in the tradition of Humphrey Bogart in Treasure of the Sierra Madre.
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 Spielberg's Too Close Encounter - Oct 21, 2002 - E! Online News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Steven Spielberg asked for and received a restraining order last week against a California woman who not only was allegedly stalking the E.T. director, but also claimed the filmmaker implanted a mind-control device inside her brain.
Court papers filed by Spielberg's attorneys and obtained by People.com allege that 47-year-old Diana Louisa Napolis posed "a serious risk of violent confrontation" with the filmmaker, after the woman announced her intention to try and contact Spielberg at a movie premiere.
Spielberg's security staff said the woman penned a 13-page manifesto accusing the Oscar winner and wife Kate Capshaw of being members of a "satanic cult" who gathered in their basement lair to spy on Napolis' meet-and-greets with E.T.s.
www.eonline.com /News/Items/0,1,10704,00.html   (593 words)

  
 TIME 100: Steven Spielberg
Steven Spielberg's first films were made at a time when directors were the most important people in Hollywood, and his more recent ones at a time when marketing controls the industry.
Spielberg's most important contribution to modern movies is his insight that there was an enormous audience to be created if old-style B-movie stories were made with A-level craftsmanship and enhanced with the latest developments in special effects.
Spielberg once told me that his master image was the light flooding in through the doorway in Close Encounters, suggesting, simultaneously, a brightness and mystery outside.
www.time.com /time/time100/artists/profile/spielberg.html   (385 words)

  
 Steven Spielberg Resource Site and Entertainment
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Steven Spielberg’s professional movie career began the day that he decided to jump off a tour bus at Universal Studios Hollywood and wander around the back lots.
Spielberg was then signed to a 7-year contract under the Television division.
www.filmmakers.com /artists/spielberg/biography   (595 words)

  
 Spielberg   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
There is no charge for the initial consultation because Dr. Spielberg wants to allow her patients to get to know her so they can make an educated decision.
Spielberg tries to work with her patients to come up with a payment plan that is most comfortable to them.
Dr. Spielberg’s goal is to achieve both for the patient.
www.spielberg-ortho.com /faqs.htm   (799 words)

  
 spielbergfilms.com - A Steven Spielberg fansite
Spielberg did, however, casually drop a bomb when he allegedly announced in passing that Lucas planned to release the film simultaneously in standard format and the new digital 3D format that a small contingent of directors are pushing hard for.
Spielberg is ready to reveal the official art for what's sure to be his next masterpiece, we'll be sure to pass it along to our readers.
Steven Spielberg’s “War of the Worlds” is amongst the nominees for “Movie of the Year,” and unlike that other big award shindig in L.A., you don’t have to be a registered Academy bigwig to vote.
www.spielbergfilms.com   (7752 words)

  
 The Steven Spielberg HomePage-Spielberg News
Apparently, it is true Spielberg had discussed this AI (Artificial Intelligence) with the Late Stanley Kubrick.......
Spielberg himself has been quoted at Mr.Showbiz.com that right now he is dealing with Minority Report, and after that Memoirs of a Giesha.......
There is no new Spielberg info except for a small thing on JP3, but I did make one minor correction to the site.
www.angelfire.com /az/spielberg/news.html   (637 words)

  
 On-Set Interview: Tom Cruise & Steven Spielberg for "War of the Worlds"
Spielberg: Well, I would have made this, if I could have, I would have begun this movie 12 years ago.
Spielberg: It is fun, it really is fun working with Tom and working with this entire cast, but if you know my movies, you know that I'm more interested in concept shots and money shots than I am in tons of MTV coverage, which certainly takes a lot of time.
Spielberg: When I first saw Lawrence of Arabia, I thought that was the biggest smallest movie I'd ever seen.
www.darkhorizons.com /news05/warworlds.php   (2772 words)

  
 07/13/98 STEVEN SPIELBERG: THE STORYTELLER
Although the film is to be released in late July, Spielberg is still spending his mornings holed up at the film lab, determined not to sign off on the movie until the World War II epic has the adequately faded look of a 1940s-era documentary.
Spielberg has done all this in pursuit of one overriding goal: to tell as many great stories to as many people as will listen.
Spielberg's knack for scary storytelling enabled him effortlessly to torture his three younger sisters and made it easier for him to forge friendships.
www.businessweek.com /1998/28/b3586001.htm   (3259 words)

  
 The Steven Spielberg Encyclopedia
Spielberg has also been recognized with Academy Award¿ nominations for E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, Raiders of the Lost Ark and Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
Spielberg has directed, produced, or executive produced eight of the top grossing films of all time.
In 1994, Spielberg announced the formation of the new studio DreamWorks SKG, the first new film studio in nearly 50 years, in partnership with Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen.
www.bttf.com /spielber.htm   (744 words)

  
 spielbergfilms.com: The War of the Worlds Archived News Current - May 2005   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
To read more of Spielberg’s thoughts, be sure to get a copy of USA Weekend magazine at your local newsstand (in the June 17-19 issue), or read the article online at usaweekend.com beginning June 17.
Spielberg talks at length about his roots as a filmmaker and gives advice to aspiring filmmakers that many a reader at spielbergfilms.com would be wise to give a listen (I know we have a lot of hard-working student filmmakers who read our site and you can’t beat free advice from someone of Mr.
Spielberg documentarian Laurent Bouzereau has been hard at work producing bonus content for a future disc since the early days of the production and Paramount will certainly want to get a jump on the fourth quarter holiday DVD sales rush.
www.spielbergfilms.com /warworldsnews.html   (10884 words)

  
 ShowBIZ Data: Film Reviews for A.I.
Steven Spielberg's A.I. (the movie was conceived by the late Stanley Kubrick) is inspiring praise from some critics and censure from others, probably the most polarized reaction ever to a Spielberg film.
Spielberg seems to be attempting the improbable feat of melding Kubrick's chilly, analytical style with his own warmer, needier sensibility.
Spielberg, with breathtaking poise and heroic conviction, risks absurdity in the pursuit of sublimity.
www.showbizdata.com /mreviews.cfm/195153/A.I.   (302 words)

  
 Spielberg, Steven on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
By the early years of the 21st cent., Spielberg was mainstream Hollywood's most famous, influential, and successful director.
Steven Spielberg a reçu la "grand croix dans l'ordre du mérite" italien le 14 avril dernier à Rome Le 61ème festival du ci.
Steven Spielberg et sa femme Kate Capshaw mercredi au Lido La 61ème édition du festival de Venise a été ouverte officielle.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/s/spielbrgs1.asp   (843 words)

  
 Steven Spielberg
Steven Spielberg has become a brand name and a force that extends far beyond the movie screen.
Ranging from Spielberg's twenties to his mid-fifties, the interviews chart his evolution from a brash young filmmaker trying to make his way in Hollywood, to his spectacular blockbuster triumphs, to his maturation as a director seeking to inspire the imagination with meaningful subjects.
The Steven Spielberg who emerges in these talks is a complex mix of businessman and artist, of arrogance and insecurity, of shallowness and substance.
www.upress.state.ms.us /catalog/spring2000/steven_spielberg.html   (414 words)

  
 The Steven Spielberg Directory
Spielberg: DVD Means Definite Video Delay - Spielberg: DVD Means Definite Delay is a story from TIME magizine explaining Spielberg's absence in the DVD market.
Spielberg: The Dino-Maestro - This article was on NBC's page promoting their television premiere of Jurassic Park.
Interview with Steven Spielberg - This interview with Spielberg was originally from Bantha Tracks May 1981 and was found on the Internet.
www.scruffles.net /spielberg/articles   (538 words)

  
    When I grow up..               The ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Steven Spielberg is one of, if not the, most famous directors currently working in the film industry.
That shark, the young boy stood in a doorway bathed in yellow light, a bike in silhouette riding in front of the moon, the little girl in a red coat and gruesome bloody battle scenes on Omaha beach in 1944.
From creating fantasy worlds of dinosaurs, extra-terrestrials and a daredevil whip-carrying archaeologist, to bringing to life the horror of the holocaust, slavery and the D-Day landings, Steven Spielberg has built a filmography that, I think, clearly illustrates how he has become one of the most successful and inspirational directors in the history of movie-making.
www.saccharinity.org /spielberg   (363 words)

  
 New York Daily News - Entertainment - Spielberg's deeper vision   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The comedy-drama, opening Friday, seems like a perfect project for the more "adult" Spielberg, a director who has frequently returned to childhood themes in his movies.
Perhaps "both" Spielbergs are present in the new film.
"Spielberg's been assoc­iated with so-called 'event movies' for so long, it may take a while for people to not see him as a blockbuster factory," says "Video Movie Guide" author and critic Leonard Maltin.
www.nydailynews.com /entertainment/story/201960p-174295c.html   (935 words)

  
 Wired 10.06: Spielberg in the Twilight Zone
Steven Spielberg, as even he will tell you, makes two kinds of movies.
There are his films that play with the future, and there are those that star the past.
Since E.T., Spielberg has grounded his fiction in fact by consulting top scientists and thinkers.
www.wired.com /wired/archive/10.06/spielberg.html   (499 words)

  
 AskMen.com - Steven Spielberg
Steven Spielberg is Hollywood's most successful and powerful director, having been responsible for movie classics: E.T. Jaws, the Indiana Jones trilogy, Schindler's List, and Saving Private Ryan.
Steven Spielberg is, without a doubt, the most celebrated, most successful, most famous, and certainly the richest director in Hollywood.
His name carries the kind of brand name recognition and stamp of quality often associated with only the finest of actors such as Tom Hanks or Tom Cruise.
www.askmen.com /men/entertainment/58_steven_spielberg.html   (229 words)

  
 Steven Spielberg, Noir Criminal By Tim Appelo
In fact, Spielberg thinks his film is something of an improvement on the noir genre.
It was a hit because of the sloppy yet evocative plotting that Spielberg deplores—and because it revels in filth like a kid crafting mud pies.
Spielberg is as good as Huston, Kubrick, and Hitchcock.
www.slate.com /?id=2067489   (1176 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
It's interesting to note how these initial concepts evolved into the final treatments used in the movie - from what appears to be a big console screen display into the transparent eye-level windowpane thing that Tom Cruise is constantly peering through with that baleful-hunky gaze of his.
Spielberg seems to have spotted the opportunity to use the interface itself as a framing device, shooting the actors through the glass with the images and UI controls superimposed in front of them as the story unfolds.
Spielberg understands the difference between a great demo and a usable product.
www.agwright.com /blog/2002_06_01_archive_index.html   (395 words)

  
 Steven Spielberg --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia
U.S. filmmaker Steven Spielberg directed and produced some of the top-grossing movies of all time.
His influence earned him the Irving G. Thalberg Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 1987 and a lifetime achievement award from the American Film Institute in 1995.
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www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9313662   (663 words)

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