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...full bloom at the nation's theaters. Fantasy, fun and lighthearted adventure for all, right? Well, this year it depends on one's idea of fun. In Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Spielberg's slam-bang sequel to Raiders of the Lost Ark, a man's heart is ripped out of his chest in a ritual sacrifice, and he is lowered alive into a pit of molten lava. In Gremlins, a fantasy co-produced by Spielberg and directed by Joe Dante, a boy's cuddly, otherworldly pet spawns a generation of vicious creatures...
Senator Dale Bumpers, 58, of Arkansas has lots of natural pizazz and down-home charm. A Marine sergeant in World War II, he practiced law and ran a hardware store in Charleston, Ark. (pop. 1,748), before he decided to try for political office. In 1970 he won the governorship. After a second term, he was elected to the Senate. "Dale is a cross between John F. Kennedy and a Methodist minister," ventures Little Rock Attorney Robert Brown, a former Bumpers aide. "He really turns on a crowd...
...square in Marshall, seat of Searcy County, Ark., men sit around in front of Buck Mays' store whittling down sticks of cedar. They do not whittle an object-a slingshot, say, or a whistle-so much as they just whittle away the stick. They make long, precise strokes, and the shavings curl before the blade like something delicate being wound. When the stick is reduced to an aromatic pile on the sidewalk, they go and get another...
...Lucas and Steven Spielberg have no one left to beat but themselves. The two film makers have had a hand in the six biggest-grossing pictures of all time (E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, Star Wars, Return of the Jedi, The Empire Strikes Back, Jaws and Raiders of the Lost Ark). Last week the dominant duo shattered some earnings records again with Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, directed by Spielberg and co-produced by Lucas. The new film sold $45.7 million worth of tickets during its first week in theaters, compared with $45.3 million for the previous record holder...
Well, no. The gremlins really are an army of latex-skinned puppets devised by Special Effects Maven Chris Walas (Piranha, Raiders of the Lost Ark) and assembled for a bargain-basement $1.3 million. (By contrast, Carlo Rambaldi's E.T. creature alone cost $1.5 million.) The greenish-brown monsters, standing 23 in. tall with their 10-in. bat ears, were controlled by hands, cables, rods, radio signals and a simple but effective method that Walas describes as "throw-'em-across-the-room puppetry." The most complicated gremlin had 60 cables operated by a dozen technicians standing...