Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: WEDNESDAY, April 13, 1994 TAG: 9404130038
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"We have to resist comparing whose pain is worse. Pain is pain," the director told about 900 students at Castlemont High School in Oakland, Calif.
In January, 69 of them were thrown out of a theater for laughing during Spielberg's Holocaust drama, "Schindler's List."
About 100 people protested outside the school Monday during Spielberg's appearance.
"We don't have any problem talking about their Holocaust. But there hasn't been anything about the Asian holocaust, the Latino holocaust, the black holocaust," 16-year-old\ Irene Garcia said.
Inside, Spielberg told the largely black audience: "My film `Schindler's List' is no more a Jewish story or German story as it is a human story. It's simply about racial hatred."
The state plans free showings of the award-winning movie to high school students from mostly lower- and middle-class school districts.
\ Timothy Dalton has given up the spy game, saying he won't play Agent 007 again.
"I have now made this difficult decision," said Dalton, who played the role of James Bond in two motion pictures.
But producers won't be retiring the number, although the still-untitled 17th film in the Bond series lacks a star, director and start date.
United Artists president John Calley said he was confident the next Bond movie would be in theaters in summer 1995.
Dalton was credited by critics with making his Bond a leaner and meaner character.
He is in South Carolina this week filming the CBS miniseries "Scarlett," in which he plays Rhett Butler.
\ Spike Lee rapped "gangsta rap," saying it encourages black men to do the wrong thing.
Speaking to about 1,000 students Monday at Salem State College in Salem, Mass., Lee said some rap music glamorizes the mistreatment of women.
"I'm not going to stand on the stage and be Tipper Gore," Lee said. "But there is such a thing as good taste."
Lee's films include "Malcolm X," "Do the Right Thing" and "Jungle Fever."
by CNB