[LEN-E] Spielberg

[Ron Koster]

At 01:50 AM 2/18/2008 +0100, you wrote:

>http://www.sundayherald.com/oped/opinion/display.var.2050654.0.boycott_the_whole_shebang.php

>

>Sunday Herald - Glasgow,Scotland,UK

>STEVEN SPIELBERG, withdrew his "artistic services" from the Chinese

>last week because he didn't want to become the Leni Riefenstahl of the

>Beijing Olympics. ...


The writer of that article is jumping to conclusions over Spielberg's 
reasons for backing out on that project (to film the Beijing 
Olympics). When he first signed on for the project (before he backed 
out recently, of course), actress Mia Farrow pubished an editorial 
that got a *lot* of coverage (indeed, repeatedly, over and over 
again, over all of last year) in which she stated -- only in part -- 
"Does Mr. Spielberg really want to go down in history as the Leni 
Riefenstahl of the Beijing Games?"

There was a lot more to her "attack" on Spielberg, though, and in the 
end that's hardly the reason why he backed out. From my Leni news 
archive, you'll find this article...

http://www.hollywoodtoday.net/?p=3820

...which explains all his reasons more fully, in his own words (along 
with more of what Mia Farrow wrote in her article).

As for the article that you pointed out, Luc, that's actually very 
bad reportage on the part of that writer! It's wrong for him to state 
that that was Spielberg's reason for quitting, when it wasn't. I'm 
sure that Farrow "calling him names" had nothing to do with it.

Ron :/