Sunday, June 1, 2008

Oddities

A Steven Spielberg fan club blog post...

* From Schindler's List, was sought by more than 56 thousand people, including Brazil, who wanted to give his testimony on Nazism. Spielberg and his team collected the testimonies of more than 120 thousand hours of film. For the disclosure of this material has created the Survivors of the Shoah, foundation "to overcome the prejudice, intolerance and fanaticism - and the suffering they cause - through the educational use of the foundation's visual history testimonies." The foundation is producing five documentaries, two of which have already released on DVD, with these materials.

* In 2001 caused controversy with the release of the film AI -- Artificial Intelligence, a work created by Stanley Kubrick, based on counting of writer Brian Aldiss. Friends in real life, Spielberg had already been questioned by the Kubrick take on the direction of the project, leaving it with the office of producer. But for a long time I was only in the plans of both. After the death of Kubrick in 1999, Spielberg immediately began production of the film.

* The owner of the Rosebud sled original, the film Citizen Kane (1941) [lacks sources?].

* It is currently among the top 3 fortunes of Hollywood [lacks sources?].

* On January 29, 2001 was awarded with the title of Knight Commander of the British Empire (Honorary Knight Commander of the British Empire).

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