Yes, Mr. Spielberg tarted it up with "Gone With the Wind"-style crowd scenes and snippets of "Saving Private Ryan"-type carnage, but for the most part he seems to have taken what Mr. Kushner gave him and run with it.

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In the '30s and '40s, voters routinely rewarded crowd-pleasers like Gone With the Wind and the Bing Crosby musical Going My Way.

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With 61 minutes gone and the home crowd growing increasingly impatient, Cresswell decided to go it alone, his 20-yard effort drifting just wide of Chamberlain's left post with the goalkeeper beaten.

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But with 50 minutes gone and England on 242-8, 39 runs behind, the small South African crowd rippled into life as Cronje was handed the second new ball.

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Bacon charmed the crowd when he quoted from what he dubbed the Holy Book of the South: Gone With the Wind.

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