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...immediately into Elliott. He can act and react. He's gifted and malleable. He gave an incredibly controlled performance." Mature and childlike by turns, utterly unaffected yet supremely resourceful as an actor, Thomas is largely responsible for making scenes between a boy and a pile of steel and foam rubber glisten with feeling...
...explained the construction of E.T. to TIME'S Joseph Pilcher, beginning with sketches and a series of clay models for screen testing for Spielberg before building the creature. Finally, Rambaldi made an aluminum and steel skeleton and then laboriously built up a musculature of fiberglass, polyurethane and foam rubber, layer upon layer. Each layer represents a muscle responsible for a body movement or facial expression, and each is connected to a mechanical control or electronic servomechanism. At his most complicated, with Rambaldi and up to ten assistants pulling his levers, E.T. can execute 150 separate motions, including wrinkling...
Photography posed its own special problems. The flying stork-steed that appears on page 53, designed by Artist Mari Kaestle in foam rubber and feathers, was attached to an especially sturdy metal stand so pregnant Model Lori Coen could perch in perfect security. As for the cover image itself, after gallantly twirling and bouncing through two studio sessions, Jaclyn Smith warned Photographer Raúl Vega-facetiously, of course...
...Christopher Finch shows, in text and pictures, how that bizarre band of aliens, the Muppets, and their syndicated TV show are put together. No fan need worry that such behind-the-scenes scrutiny will spoil the fun. Knowing that a favorite character is composed largely of polyurethane foam, synthetic-pile fabrics and a couple of Ping Pong balls only seems part of the fun that these creatures and the inspired Muppeteers generate...
...days at the Easterns, Harvard had suffered two major casualties and could not have played a third game on the same competitive level. Netminder Janet Judge, who resembled a force-field against UConn despite a broken finger sustained in the semis, will start tomorrow with her fingers wrapped in foam rubber. "There's no way I wasn't going to play," says Judge...