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...troops, they are merely passing through town on the way to what threatens to be the bloodiest theater of an already too bloody conflict. When they depart, the people and animals of Port San Carlos will undoubtedly resume their quiet routines, but nothing will ever again be the same. Carol Miller, a former Port San Carlos resident now living in England, who guided the British military in their plans for the landing, described her home thus: "To the north there are rocks; to the south is a hillock. It's sufficient to shroud the houses from any view, from...
...forlorn or malevolent spirits residing inside the Poltergeist house, each child is differently attuned. The teen-age girl is too involved with growing up to take much notice; the boy, Robbie (Oliver Robins), can be reached only on the frequency of fear; but the five-year-old, Carol Anne (Heather O'Rourke), is unaware and unafraid of the spirits' terrible power-and is theirs for the taking. It is she who releases the poltergeists (literally, noisy ghosts) from their long bondage between this world and the next. Drawn to the blankly fuzzy, humming screen of the living-room...
...innocence and intuition, evolve a fantasy life-their real life-that personalizes everything around them. Machines become toys, toys are animated into pets, pets turn into near-human friends, and all play crucial roles as the saints and dragons of a child's deepest dreams. In Poltergeist, Carol Anne talks to "the TV people," and they talk back; they even play with her, to malefic effect. But Spielberg, as he demonstrated in Close Encounters, is no kidnaper. What he takes from the audience-in thrills, anxiety, even children-he gives back, better than...
...both pictures, the children are natural and winning. As the mother in Poltergeist, Jobeth Williams, who Spielberg predicts could some day be on a par with Jill Clayburgh, creates a surprisingly rounded character. She gives the movie audience an electrifying shiver the moment her character feels Carol Anne's spirit moving through her body. In E.T., Dee Wallace has some quietly affecting scenes as Elliott's mother, who cannot quite hide from her children the ache of loneliness at her husband's desertion. In Spielberg's previous features, only one actor (Melinda Dillon, in Close Encounters...
King relates his backstage odyssey in the voice of vintage Slim Pickens. When Songwriter Carol Hall and aspiring Director Peter Masterson, both fellow Texans, want to turn his story of the "Chicken Ranch"-a LaGrange, Texas, bordello closed by politicos-into a musical comedy, the financially troubled journalist promises himself to do "big work." But, as he admits, "whether a musical about a whorehouse made the weight" is debatable...