In a message dated 7/13/99 6:34:21 PM Pacific Daylight Time, Dictel at aol.com writes: << He would have been better doing "Wartime Lies" even if John Boorman & Spielberg beat him to the punch. >> Wasn't it Kubrick who directed _Paths of Glory_, with a hell of a "Wartime Lies" theme long before Spielberg was out of high school? jbf