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Perhaps The Color Purple will bring Spielberg the one triumph that has thus ( far eluded him: an Oscar for Best Director (though Clint Eastwood wonders if the industry may not think Spielberg is "a little too young and too successful. He has done so well, it may be a long time before anyone bestows on him any brassworks for the fireplace"). But even with that statuette, one suspects that Spielberg would still be restless. He would still crave those moments when he can spin amazing stories for himself, his kid sisters and a world of children in the dark...
...stitch. At 65, Leah Adler still has enough vim to run a kosher restaurant in West Los Angeles with her second husband Bernie while moonlighting as an extra in the Amazing Stories episode directed by Clint Eastwood. Back in the early '60s, though, in the Phoenix suburb of Scottsdale, Leah Spielberg could summon just enough energy to ride the roller coaster called Young Steven. "He was my first, so I didn't know that everybody didn't have kids like him," she recalls with a happy shrug. "I just hung on for dear life. He was always the center...
Just ask John Wayne, Clint Eastwood and Sly Stallone what the public wants...
This movie is perhaps worth the two dollar matinee at the Somerville theater. But don't pay $4.75 to see it. Go to the original Shane instead. If you've already seen the original but are hell-bent on seeing Clint's latest, don't be surprised if Pale Rider disappoints...
...that never changes in any of his films, it is that the female leads are lousy. The young girl who prays for Eastwood's appearance and subsequently desires to sleep with him plays her role with snivelling mediocrity. The mother who beats out her daughter in the battle for Clint is developed only slightly better. The only thing to be thankful for is the absence of Sondra Locke...