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...fingers are unearthly batons. The furrows on his brow resemble a music staff, and his body is about the size of a shriveled cello. He can hear the harmony of the spheres, and his rhythm is out of this world. So E.T. seemed to be marching to the beat of an interstellar drummer when he waddled onto the stage of the Hollywood Bowl, in a surprise appearance after Maestro John Williams conducted the theme from E.T. Williams, 50, who composed the score for E. T. as well as for Star Wars, graciously shook hands with the world's most...
...days, if a boss saw a worker with his feet propped on his desk, he would probably furrow his brow and bark, "Don't get too comfortable, Bumstead!" Times change. Today's executive might buy the employee a more relaxing chair. The manager would be applying one of the latest buzzwords in American business: ergonomics. Says Michael J. Smith, chief of motivation and stress research for the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health: "There isn't one major computer maker or office-furniture maker that doesn't have ergonomics experts designing his equipment...
...Klingensmith's junior year at Woodrow Wilson H.S.--a preacher from England arrived at the United Methodist Temple, and began to preach "marvelous fiery sermons," drawing big crowds on three consecutive nights. Each evening, while the sweat cooled on his brow, the minister held question-and-answer sessions with the congregation. "I would go and just sit," Klingensmith remembers. "As I was walking out of church one night the preacher accosted me, and told me he was God's messenger to me and that I was going to be a minister. I said, 'Well, what if I don't want...
...center of both E. T. and Poltergeist is the suburban family, as normal and American as Pop-Tarts. In Poltergeist, Dad (Craig T. Nelson), late 30s, sells tract houses, reads biographies of Ronald Reagan and furrows his brow to watch his hairline recede. Mom (Jobeth Williams), early 30s, keeps house, sings TV beer jingles and tucks in her son under a Star Wars bedspread. If this seems the derisory stuff of sitcoms, it is not. "I never mock suburbia," Spielberg declares. "My life comes from there." He likes these people and communicates that affection. Faced with balky children...
...layer represents a muscle responsible for a body movement or facial expression, and each is connected to a mechanical control or electronic servomechanism. At his most complicated, with Rambaldi and up to ten assistants pulling his levers, E.T. can execute 150 separate motions, including wrinkling his nose, furrowing his brow and delicately crooking his long fingers. It was not feasible to cram all the necessary machinery into one model, so Rambaldi built three: one with mechanical controls, Rambaldi holds an early model of E.T.'s skull mostly for large body movements operated with cables from a distance of about...