JIM BECKERMAN, Staff Writer The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 12-06-1998 DUELING FILM STUDIOS SQUARE OFF By JIM BECKERMAN, Staff Writer Date: 12-06-1998, Sunday Section: YOUR TIME Edition: All Editions -- Sunday It's a tale of biblical proportions. No, not the story of...

Byline: DONNA GOODISON The privately funded Massachusetts Film Bureau is shutting down after four years, and founder Robin Dawson will join an advisory board for the new state-sanctioned Massachusetts Film Office. Richard Krezwick, interim head of the Massachusetts Sports & Entertainment Commission,...

Jeff Gordon prepared Wednesday for a trip down memory lane, returning to Eldora Speedway, a half-mile dirt track carved out of farmland in western Ohio where he raced as a youth. Gordon, Tony Stewart and other top NASCAR drivers accustomed to dueling each other on...

Jeremy Bonderman began his All-Star campaign in style Sunday night. Bonderman beat Scott Baker in an old-fashioned pitchers' duel, and Marcus Thames homered with two outs in the eighth inning to send the Detroit Tigers to a 1-0 victory over the Minnesota Twins.Bonderman (9-1) allowed...

In the following essay, Mott and Saunders examine Spielberg's early made-for-television movies, noting that the eventual theatrical releases of Duel and The Sugarland Express set certain thematic precedents for Spielberg's subsequent films.

With almost insolent ease, Duel … displays the philosopher's stone which the Existentialists sought so persistently and often so portentously: the perfect acte gratuit, complete, unaccountable and self-sufficient. Steven Spielberg … sets the scene brilliantly from the outset…. The glory of Richard Matheson's script is that there are no motivations, no explanations, simply the archetypal rivalry of the road carried to reductio ad absurdum heights. At first there are moments...