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...parents seeded the mix of science and art that would surface in Spielberg's films: his father Arnold was a computer engineer, his mother Leah a former classical pianist. (They were divorced when Steven was 17.) In many ways, he was a typical boy. He loved animals, especially cocker spaniels-and parakeets, which he kept in his bedroom, flying free. "There would be birds flying around and birdseed all over the floor," recalls Leah, now 62 and the owner-operator of a kosher delicatessen in West Los Angeles. "I'd just reach in to get the dirty clothes...
There Belushi blossomed into an archangel of the grotesque. His face-round and blandly menacing in repose, like a middle-level Mafioso's-could contort into semblances of slashing samurai, killer bees, Joe Cocker or Marlon Brando. Belushi's body, stolid as a '53 Studebaker, could erupt in spasms of grace. As one of the Blues Brothers, the blue-eyed soul group that brought Belushi a platinum record and a big-budget movie, this slab in a black suit would suddenly turn a series of split-second cartwheels, like a hippo Baryshnikov. Belushi was the ideal comic...
...Justice William Rehnquist says, "The most important issue in American jurisprudence today is the treatment of illegal immigrants from Pluto." Saying he was "glad to be fully recovered from my illness and back to my usual schedule," the justice added, "I'll feel even better when that six-foot cocker spaniel stops following me everywhere...
...Senate Armed Services Committee has already approved a bill to revive registration, Richard Cocker, press secretary for Sen. Henry Jackson (D-Wash.) said yesterday...
...obviously will be a very difficult thing to get passed-it is such a politically hot issue because of past troubles with the draft," Cocker said. "In 1941, even after the fall of France, the House only approved the draft by a single vote," he added...