Article: On-line with Hollywood

Joel Silver, the louder-than-life movie producer known for gracing the culture with such big-bang action hits as "Die Hard" and "Lethal Weapon," popped up on the information highway the other night, eerily voiceless. Silver, mind you, is the model Hollywood uses whenever it wants to throw onscreen everybody's idea of the steamroller producer. You maybe saw him satirized by Steve Martin in "Grand Canyon" and Albert Brooks in the current "I'll Do Anything."

Now here he was on America Online, the computer network, taking questions from a handful of critics scattered around the country, with subscribers permitted to eavesdrop. The way it played out, the process was more like an electronic Ouija ...

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