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Implausible Indy: Ike-Era Ford Fights Russians, Aliens

Rex Reed — Tue, 20 May 2008 12:39:45 -0400

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Running Time 124 minutes
Written by David Koepp
Directed by Steven Spielberg
Starring Harrison Ford, Cate Blanchett, Shia LaBeouf

As summer time-wasters go, the latest Indiana Jones will go in record time, if you ask me. Steven Spielberg’s Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, the first chapter in the series since 1989, is a four-star yawn. Harrison Ford started this fairy-tale franchise 27 years ago. At 65, he looks pretty darn trim, but why doesn’t he stop dyeing his hair? Sometimes it’s a rugged, manly silver. In the next scene it looks like he’s wearing a champagne rinse from Elizabeth Arden. Finally it turns orange as a Sunkist popsicle. Whatever else we expect from Indiana Jones, we don’t want him to look like Lucille Ball. read more »

Without Spielberg, Beijing's Olympic Production Runs on Time

Tom Scocca — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:46:22 -0500

BEIJING -- When an employee of Rupert Murdoch begins badgering someone about cozying up to the Chinese regime, it's clear that the People's Republic is having a public-relations crisis.

"Spielberg said, 'No, I'm not going to go,'" a reporter said, thrusting a Fox News microphone at British filmmaker Daryl Goodrich on Feb. 23.

Eleven days earlier, Steven Spielberg had publicly announced he was quitting as an artistic consultant to the Beijing Olympics. So why, the Fox man demanded, had Goodrich said yes? read more »

Will Spielberg, Geffen Walk From Dreamworks?

Tom McGeveran — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 08:39:20 -0400

Peter Bart reports in today's L.A. editions of Variety that Viacom chief Sumner Redstone's relationship with Steven Spielberg and David Geffen is going south.

According to his report-which relies on unnamed sources-the duo could walk in 15 months if their relationship with Mr. Redstone, whose purchase of Dreamworks through Paramount was regarded as a coup in Hollywood, does not improve.

Spielberg's Munich Suffers From Curse of the 'Significant' Film

Andrew Sarris — Sun, 25 Dec 2005 19:00:00 -0500

Steven Spielberg’s Munich, from a screenplay by Tony Kushner and Eric Roth, based on the book Veng read more »

Ingmar Bergman Gives Us Scenes From a Long Lifetime

Andrew Sarris — Sun, 17 Jul 2005 20:00:00 -0400

If anyone had ever told me back in 1944 that a 26-year-old Swedish screenwriter named Ingmar Bergman read more »

Creepy Cruise Scares Even Aliens

Rex Reed — Sun, 10 Jul 2005 20:00:00 -0400

Tom Cruise is an alien. Think about it. That would explain just about everything. read more »

Vintage Horror From the 1970's: A Retching Kind of Nostalgia

Tom Shone — Sun, 10 Apr 2005 20:00:00 -0400

How scary is real estate? read more »

Spielberg Protégé James Moll May Just Save Private Kerry

Joe Hagan — Sun, 01 Aug 2004 20:00:00 -0400

It's a little surrealistic right now," said a dazed James Moll, a 41-year-old filmmaker who won an A read more »

Kerry's Spielbergian Nominating Film: "A Remarkable Promise"; Here's What's In It

Joe Hagan — Sun, 01 Aug 2004 20:00:00 -0400

Here's how James Moll created the version of John Kerry that will introduce thecandidate at the Demo read more »

First-Class Fairy Tale

Rex Reed — Sun, 20 Jun 2004 20:00:00 -0400

I won't say Tom Hanks can do no wrong, but for a man who lives and works in Hollywood, his track rec read more »