Show IHh II Shi T si il( j ft- - tf ii iil iHT I sikii fts 4tfi inn f$iittj&itg 4 'itiittif iwspuisniH i a r a bS' - rK - VJ& 4 r ? s r '$ 0 vi r r‘ 'v — - - ' 'f-- yV V 4 r i ' ' K i “My parents were humble hardworking people” Left Liam Neeson told me “There’s a lesson in that I learned the fundamentals of what’s important such as gening food on the table and keeping a roof over our heads and clothes on our backs There was no selfishness I was Oskar Schindler an altar boy but we weren’t 100 percent religiously oriented there was no sack- cloth and ashes Just lots of emphasis on education" Liam Neeson showed he hadn’t forgotten those values when he won an Oscar nomination last year for his depiction of Oskar Schindler in Steven COVER PHOTOGRAPH BY TIMOTHY WHITE Spielberg’s Academy Award-winnin- g film Schindler's List Suddenly the actor was flooded with scripts For the first time in his career he was receiving star treatment — and he rejected it He left Hollywood and for a year made no movies (except Nell which he had committed to making prior to Schindler) I sat with Neeson in the lounge of a New York hotel near the apartment he shares with the British actress Natasha Richardson whom he married last July (They are expecting their first child in 20-ye- ar Liam Neeaon as — the German entrepreneur who helped save Polish Jews from the Nazis— in the Academy Award-winni- ng movie Schindler's List PAM 4 MAV 7 19SS PARAM MAGAZINE |