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DATE: MONDAY, January 24, 1994                   TAG: 9401240003
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PEOPLE

"Schindler's List," considered by many the crowning achievement of Steven Spielberg's distinguished filmmaking career, left the Golden Globe-winning director at a loss for words on what lies ahead.

"The sad thing for me, I don't know what I'm going to do next," said Spielberg, who accepted Golden Globes on Saturday night for best dramatic picture and best director. " `Schindler's List' was the experience of my motion picture life."

What could lie ahead are Oscars for the director and his searing black-and-white film about a Nazi profiteer's rescue of Jews in the Holocaust.

The Golden Globes are seen as a barometer of film industry sentiments leading up to voting for the Academy Awards, which will be handed out March 21.

Also in the running are Tom Hanks and Holly Hunter, honored for best dramatic performances in "Philadelphia" and "The Piano," respectively.

Robin Williams was named best actor in a musical or comedy for masquerading as a British nanny in "Mrs. Doubtfire," which was named best musical or comedy film. "If I start shaking, it's my nerves, not the room," Williams said, referring to last week's quake and the aftershocks. "The exits are over there and there."

Burt Reynolds and Loni Anderson have agreed to a settlement in their publicly bitter divorce: She gets $2 million and a vacation house; he gets the rest.

"She's been very easy on him," Anderson's attorney, Martin Simone, said Saturday.

The agreement was reached over the weekend, beating a Monday divorce court date in Jupiter, Fla., Simone said. Custody of their 5-year-old adopted son, Quinton, must still be arranged in Los Angeles County Superior Court. Reynolds already is paying $42,000 per month in child support under a temporary order.

Rick James won't be going to prison after all.

The funk singer, who faced up to 19 years in prison for assaulting women, will be sent to a drug rehabilitation center instead. Under a plea deal approved Thursday, James could be free by September.

The deal came shortly after the district attorney's office revealed it was investigating the way James' case had been handled. The Los Angeles Times, citing unidentified sources, said a district attorney's investigator allegedly provided heroin to a key witness at James' trial.

by CNB