Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Stacks accompanied Ferraro on a dizzying round of public appearances, including a breakfast at a Jewish community center, a march in support of Soviet Jewry and a dinner at a Knights of Columbus hall. He also dined with Ferraro and her husband, Real Estate Developer John Zaccaro. "An unusual thing," Stacks observes, "was interviewing Zaccaro in his role as supportive mate. I'm used to directing those kinds of questions to the woman...
...raised fists and remarks far ruder than her own, she demanded that this car back up, that one turn right. One driver recognized her and yelled, "You tell 'em, Gerri!" Slowly the traffic jam cleared. The Congresswoman from Queens was back on schedule, racing to a Knights of Columbus testimonial dinner...
...plot and tone between E.T. and Gremlins: a sweet, lonely boy in a matriarchal family in a near idyllic small town meets a gentle, otherworldly creature who becomes his charge and his protector. But these comparisons are mainly for exegetes and archaeologists, for by mid-film Author Chris Columbus and Director Joe Dante have spun Gremlins off its smooth E. T. rails and launched it into the fetid backwaters of fantasyland...
...brain that hatched Gremlins was 21 years old at the time and productively disturbed. In the summer of 1981, Chris Columbus, a former student at the New York University Film School, was living in a loft in the garment district of Manhattan. "When I went to sleep at night," he recalls, "I could hear mice scurrying along the floor. I slept with my arm draped over the side of the bed, hanging just above floor level, and I kept having this nightmare of waking up with a mouse nibbling on my fingers. That's how I got the idea...
Hollywood discovered future shock in its infancy; new "generations" of talent can arrive every few years, encouraged by the new Old Guard. With Gremlins Spielberg, 36, has played godfather to two successive waves of moviemakers: Dante, 36, and Columbus, now all of 25, who is at work writing another script for his mentor. Says Spielberg: "You can drop a stone into the black hole of Chris' imagination and never hear it hit bottom. I'd never thought about directing Gremlins myself-I wanted to take a long vacation from anything with a wire trailing from its rear...