In an honor-laden career, Steven Spielberg has never played for higher emotional and political stakes than in his upcoming film on the aftermath of the 1972 massacre of 11 Israeli Olympic athletes by Palestinian Black September terrorists.
A widely circulated Internet report that Steven Spielberg was planning to produce a trilogy of films exposing Christian brutality has been denounced as a hoax and \”mean prank\” by the filmmaker\’s chief spokesman.
Producer-director Steven Spielberg pledged $1 million to aid Israeli terrorism victims and has named five Israeli and U.S. organizations as the initial recipients of the grant.
Steven Spielberg has inspired dozens of biographies, none of them written with the filmmaker\’s consent.
After videotaping the testimonies of more than 50,000 Holocaust survivors during the past seven years, a foundation created by filmmaker Steven Spielberg will now shift its focus to an even more daunting task, a worldwide educational campaign against prejudice, intolerance and bigotry.\n\n
The discussion was con-fidential when Roger Richman, attorney for Hebrew University of Jerusalem, met with Bonnie Curtis, Steven Spielberg\’s producer on \”A.I.: Artificial Intelligence.\” Spielberg needed the university\’s help on his top-secret film, about a robot child who longs to become a real boy.
\nTo mark Holocaust Remembrance Day, KCET and other PBS stations will broadcast Steven Spielberg\’s \”Schindler\’s List\” at 8 p.m. April 19 and 21.
After we made \”Schindler\’s List,\” more and more Holocaust survivors came up to me ,and every one of them said, \”Now let me tell you MY story.\” And each story was different and compelling. – Steven Spielberg
\”George Gershwin Alone,\” the only one-man show ever permitted by the heirs of the composer for the commercial stage, began in the shadow of the Holocaust.
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