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Word: columbus (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Columbus says he still feels young himself, but he also draws on the experiences of his wife's seven sisters and brothers...

Author: By Thomas M. Doyle, | Title: Chris Columbus | 12/12/1985 | See Source »

...been less than a decade since Columbus's first feature film--Reckless, which he wrote in college. Inspired by the music of Bruce Springsteen, the movie "celebrated escape," Columbus says. It was a dismal failure: the film company "took the script away from me and added 20 minutes of sex. The film was originally rated X. It was just a mess...

Author: By Thomas M. Doyle, | Title: Chris Columbus | 12/12/1985 | See Source »

Speaking of carnal knowledge, Columbus notes that teenagers are not "the sex-starved maniacs" that Hollywood makes them out to be. Columbus's Spielberg movies all feature youngsters, and he tries to sculpt them differently from the mainstream teenage flick--more "precocious," he says...

Author: By Thomas M. Doyle, | Title: Chris Columbus | 12/12/1985 | See Source »

...latest youthful leading man, the pint-sized Sherlock Holmes, is so precocious as to be almost wholly unchildlike. Columbus says he scoured Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's books for hints at the genesis of the "cold, emotionless bachelor" that Holmes was to become. At one point, Columbus reports, one of young Holmes' instructors tells the youngster never to "let your emotions distract...

Author: By Thomas M. Doyle, | Title: Chris Columbus | 12/12/1985 | See Source »

...does Columbus manage to capture the child-protagonist in script after script...

Author: By Thomas M. Doyle, | Title: Chris Columbus | 12/12/1985 | See Source »

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