Word: girls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...part of the hallucination. I wanted to control it. I wanted to be a ( director." And so, bankrolled by a young friend with hopes of being a producer, he wrote and directed, in ten days, for $10,000, a short film called Amblin', about a boy and a girl hitchhiking from the desert to the Pacific Ocean. The day after Spielberg showed the film at Universal, he was called in by Sidney Jay Sheinberg, head of TV production, and offered a seven-year contract to direct Universal TV series. He was 20 years old. "I quit college," Spielberg says...
...more energy than a hundred mothers her age. The image I have of her is of this tiny woman climbing to the top of a mountain, standing there with her arms out and spinning around. My mom was always just like a little girl who never grew out of her pinafore. The rest of us trailed after her, Dad and my three younger sisters and me. She left a large wake...
...folding stroller. Farther along the platform, a woman from Nicaragua, now a U.S. citizen, explained the subway system to her niece. The older woman, in secret and at great expense, had retrieved her niece the week before from a paid guide, a so-called coyote, who had smuggled the girl across the border at Brownsville, Texas...
...that air, desert, sea; ambition had elbow room there. And soon after settling in the Los Angeles suburb of Hollywood, the industry discovered the last element it needed to achieve dominance among the popular arts: movie stars. Two of them, by turning stereotypes of Everyman and Pretty Girl into archetypes, would become the most recognizable people in the world, and among the wealthiest. The fairy tale needs one more twist: both Charlie Chaplin and Mary Pickford were immigrants...
...year and become, for a time, the planet's most recognizable and cherished figure. Chaplin deserved no less; his poignant one-reel comedies taught the world how to love movies. Pickford, with her ringlets and coquettish ways, was hardly less popular, and no less resourceful. In 1909 the little girl from Toronto cadged an audition with Film Pioneer D.W. Griffith; by 1916 she could tell the bosses at Paramount Pictures, "No, I really cannot afford to work for only $10,000 a week" (which is precisely the fee she settled for). This sudden affluence did not short-circuit the masses...