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...Steven Spielberg was all of 26 when he was hired. At the age of 16, he had made a 2½-hour feature for $500, partly bankrolled by his father, a computer executive. Young Spielberg premiered this maiden effort-a sci-fi monster flick-in his home town of Phoenix with all the trimmings, including limousines and klieg lights raking the sky. By 20, he was in college just outside Los Angeles and had bluffed his way onto the Universal lot, where he hung around movie sets "until I got thrown off. Hitchcock, Franklin Schaffner, I was bounced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SUMMER OF THE SHARK | 6/23/1975 | See Source »

...colleen with a heart-shaped face. Her daughter Carrie Fisher, 18, is the madcap of the '70s, a dourly funny sophisticate. Debbie's big hit movie was the innocuous Tammy and the Bachelor, in which she played a professional teen-age virgin. Carrie has a hit flick too: Warren Beatty's Beverly Hills satire Shampoo. She also played a teen-ager-a nymphet who traps Beatty into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Not Exactly Like Mom | 6/16/1975 | See Source »

...THUMB THROW. The thumb is laid under the forward edge of the Frisbee with the rest of the hand curled around the rim, palm up. The disk is launched with a forehand flick of the wrist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Ultimate Frisbee | 5/26/1975 | See Source »

...hottest TV import; 78 public-television stations are now committed to run the show, which is one of the most popular in public TV history. Doubtless there will be many more as their new movie, Monty Python and the Holy Grail (see box), is released across the nation. The flick has already opened in Manhattan, where on the first days, crowds lined up four deep around a city block. Said the Pythons' U.S. manager Nancy Lewis: "And they thought no one would understand them here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Killer Joke Triumphs | 5/26/1975 | See Source »

Homebodies is plotted out and done up with competence, so it does not look like the usual sleazy horror flick. For a yarn like this to work at all, though, the elfin imagination of a John Collier or Roald Dahl is indispensable. The authors and director of Homebodies have no such...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Golden Age Club | 4/7/1975 | See Source »

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