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18 Feb, 2008 1:50 am
I was going to do a post surveying the blogosphere on Steven Spielberg's decision to pull out of the
Olympics. My post was going to highlight Mutant Palm's and Silicon Hutong's ... interesting and thoughtful. But ImageThief has completely beaten me to it in his post, "Steven Spielberg pulls out of the Olympics - Updated." And since he has done a ... I would have done, I am just
going to say that if you are interested in seeing different perspectives on Spielberg's Darfur decision, you have to go here.
13 Jun, 2007 11:04 am
... does, Hillary Clinton just scored a major win by getting the backing of Director and mogul Steven Spielberg. Influential filmmaker and philanthropist Steven Spielberg today
announced that he is officially endorsing Hillary Clinton for President. Spielberg said that ... what I envision as true mogul ego style, one
paragraph of the endorsement contains quotes about Hillary and the rest is about Spielberg's accomplishments and career. One would think he's
the candidate. Nonetheless, good for Hillary. ...
20 Jan 4:47 pm
... be based on reason rather than emotion? If yes, do victim impact statements aid that purpose? Justice Stevens warned that "when victim impact evidence is enhanced with music,
photographs, or video footage, the risk of unfair prejudice quickly becomes overwhelming. ... nation will inevitably impose different standards - some allowing highly emotional videos
set to music,and produced by Steven Spielberg; others permitting only bare-bones testimony. A
defendant's punishment should not depend upon how ...
5 Mar, 2007 6:57 pm
Derek Fincham discusses the stolen Norman Rockwell painting that ended up in Steven Spielberg's
collection (mentioned earlier here) and points to a company that's come up with a way to use cellphone cameras to check works against a database of stolen art. Says Derek: " ...
unwittingly purchasing stolen works." Meanwhile, the Wall Street Journal Law Blog's Peter Lattman discusses the Spielberg story here. He also
recommends Jonathan Harr's "The Lost Painting," "a gripping yarn ...
13 Apr, 2007 8:50 am
The bigger they are, the harder they fall -- especially in the world of celebrity divorce. Basketball great Michael Jordan, singer-songwriter Neil Diamond and Oscar-winning director
Steven Spielberg top a new Forbes magazine list on Thursday of the 10 most costly divorce settlements
of ... . Diamond later said Murphey, his second wife, was "worth every penny," according to Forbes. Spielberg's first marriage, to actress Amy
Irving, ended in 1989 with his ex-spouse awarded roughly ...
16 Apr, 2007 9:49 am
The bigger they are, the harder they fall -- especially in the world of celebrity divorce. Basketball great Michael Jordan, singer-songwriter Neil Diamond and Oscar-winning director
Steven Spielberg top a new Forbes magazine list on Thursday of the 10 most costly divorce settlements
of ... . Diamond later said Murphey, his second wife, was "worth every penny," according to Forbes. Spielberg's first marriage, to actress Amy
Irving, ended in 1989 with his ex-spouse awarded roughly ...
9 Sep, 2008 5:35 pm
The estate of Sheldon Abend is suing Steven Spielberg, Dreamworks, and Paramount Pictures over the
film Disturbia, which it claims infringed its rights in a short story written by the noir author Cornell George Hopley-Woolrich, who wrote under the name...
10 Feb 12:38 pm
Some of Hollywood's biggest entertainment lawyers helped hammer out the new distribution deal between Walt Disney Co. and director Steven
Spielberg.
2 Nov 5:49 am
... the filings in a lawsuit filed last year by the estate of the author of It Had To Be Murder (the basis for Hitchcock's Rear Window) against Steven Spielberg, Dreamworks, and others over the movie Disturbia: Steven
Spielberg and major Hollywood ... and breach of contract for making "Disturbia" without first obtaining permission from the copyright holders,
the suit said. Spielberg, a Dreamworks founder, is named as a defendant. The film grossed about $80 million at the U.S. box office. According
to ...
30 Jun, 2008 5:20 pm
... 't, and free will is a gray area - a luxury that not everyone possesses. One veteran cop, after seeing a prediction that he will kill someone he doesn't even know, is having none of
it. So what did Steven Spielberg's 2002 movie add, besides a gross eye transplant? Well, for one, it
brought in Tom Cruise - balding, out-of-shape 50-year-olds are never attractive narrators as far as Hollywood's concerned, no matter what they ...
4 Mar, 2007 12:13 pm
... this L.A. Times story from Saturday that a stolen Rockwell had been found in the art collection of Steven Spielberg. The painting had been stolen from a Missouri gallery 34 years ago. Spielberg's staff contacted the FBI a
few weeks back after seeing the a bulletin from the agency's Art Crime ... "Russian Schoolroom" painting. A special FBI agent and a museum curator inspected the painting Friday
afternoon in Spielberg's offices; he wasn't present. Said the FBI agent of Spielberg: " ...
26 Sep, 2007 8:52 am
... SKG Studios. In 1997, author Barbara Chase-Riboud filed a $10 million lawsuit and injunction against director Steven Spielberg and his Hollywood production company, DreamWorks SKG ("DreamWorks"), for copyright infringement. See Chase-Riboud v. ... Chase-Riboud further claims
the film contains far too many similarities to her novel which she previously submitted to Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment. Defendant
DreamWorks argued that the suit was without merit because the film was based upon historical ...
10 Jun, 2007 7:37 pm
A few months ago I posted about a Norman Rockwell painting that turned up in Stephen Spielberg's collection 30 years after it was stolen from a
St. Louis gallery. Now comes ... Jack Solomon, the owner of the gallery from which the painting was stolen in 1973, has sued both Spielberg and
the FBI in federal court in Nevada, and (2) Judy Goffman Cutler, ... had much more. The Riverfront Times story is long and wild (the subhead is: "Steven Spielberg's stolen painting, a St. Louis art thief, and a plot to ...
8 Jul, 2007 7:19 pm
... one job in the world now and that's to make him happy!' he ranted, pointing at Spielberg. 'And you're putting me in a position where I
cannot make him happy!' Geffen, slipping ... . "'I'm not screaming!' Geffen yelled. "'You're screaming, David,' Sheinberg said. "Finally, Steven Spielberg piped up. 'David, you know what would make me happy?' he asked. "'What?' Geffen asked angrily.
"'Stop screaming,' Spielberg said." (p. 546.) The Unexpected I didn't expect to get a primer in leadership. Without a ...
13 Nov 4:26 pm
... (Richard Linklater, 2004) Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee, 2005) Che: Part One (Steven Soderbergh, 2008) Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
(Michel Gondry, 2004) Gosford Park ... (Billy Ray, 2003) There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2007) Traffic (Steven Sodernergh, 2000) And
here's my list of the films I haven't yet ... (Werner Herzog, 2005) The Lives of Others (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, 2006) Munich (Steven
Spielberg, 2005) Oldboy (Chan-wook Park, 2003) The Prestige (Christopher Nolan, ...
9 Nov, 2007 6:51 am
... their copyrights on Hollywood movies. The Bollywood film, Koi... Mil Gaya, was a tale similar to Steven Spielberg's famous movie E.T., yet there have been no claims from Amblin Entertainment (the studio that made the movie) [14] or Spielberg for copyright infringement. In Koi... Mil Gaya, two young adults find an alien and ... into their lives [15], similar to the manner in which Eliot
takes in E.T. in the Spielberg movie. Producers in Hollywood might also look toward international law to find ...
6 Oct 9:17 am
The LAT's Mike Boehm has an update on Steven Spielberg's stolen Rockwell, which I last wrote about,
more than two years ago, here. Boehm reports that the case (between the owner at the time the work was stolen in 1973 and the dealer who sold it to Spielberg in 1989) is scheduled to go to trial, in federal court in Las Vegas, in January.
16 Apr, 2007 1:44 pm
... Vanoy estimated to receive more than $150 million. Other big names on this costly divorce list include Steven Spielberg, Paul McCartney, Harrison Ford, Neil Diamond and Kevin Costner, and the order might surprise ... many people were touched by Diamond and his hit
album, "Touching You, Touching Me." 3. Steven Spielberg and Amy Irving: The movie producer's divorce
with his first wife, actress Amy Irving, resulted in an estimated $100 million divorce settlement. According to Forbes, Irving won that ...
20 Dec, 2008 1:57 am
Image via Wikipedia As I predicted earlier, one of the features of the Madoff fraud would be the affinity fraud angle. The WSJ reports about the Madoff ponzi that "Steven Spielberg. Elie Wiesel. Mort Zuckerman. Frank Lautenberg. Yeshiva University. As I read the list of people
and enterprises reportedly bilked to the tune of $50 billion by Bernard Madoff, I recalled a childhood in which my father received bad news by ...
12 Mar 9:19 am
... wealthy clients. Client Roster Over three decades, he built a reputation as a brilliant stock picker who delivered steady returns through both bull and bear markets, attracting an
international client roster that included celebrities like filmmaker Steven Spielberg, fund managers
like J. Ezra Merkin, charities, universities, friends, and even royalty. Some of the thousands of his investors lost their life ...
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