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...landed on the Falkland Islands, though a long story ran inside. In the three years since E.T., notes Senior Writer Richard Corliss, who wrote both this week's cover story and the 1982 piece, Spielberg has become even more successful and influential. "He is Hollywood's most powerful mini- mogul," says Corliss. "With the release of The Goonies and Back to the Future, we thought it the right time to catch up with this boy whirlwind and see where he was going. It turns out to be where he came from: back to his childhood...
...eight years ago, has delegated the directing of his films to other hands. Spielberg is very & hands-on; as Director Martin Scorsese puts it, "Lucas became so powerful that he didn't have to direct. But directing is what Steven has to do." Spielberg admits, "Yeah, I'm a mogul now. And I love the work the way Patton loved the stink of battle. But when I grow up, I still want to be a director...
...rites of summer! Baseball and sunbathing. Picnics by the old swimming hole. Heat prostration and killer mosquitoes. Steven Spielberg movies. For the fifth consecutive summer, this tireless auteur-mogul has placed his name on a fantasy adventure or two designed to turn sentient adults into wonder-lusting children. Spielberg directed neither of the inevitable hits before us: he wrote the story and served as an executive producer of The Goonies; he shepherded Back to the Future toward production, then pretty much left the film's creators on their merry own. But his candy-smirched fingerprints are evident on both projects...
Blackie Buck (Kris Kristofferson) is the narrator of Songwriter; a drawling Austin maverick, he prepares to relate some of the more bizarre moments in the stormy country music career of Doc Jenkins (Willie Nelson), singing poet-turned-mogul...
...Movie of the Week or a late show. Once in a while, though, a film will buck the glut of exploitation movies and attract any viewer who still carries a hankie. Critic Raymond Durgnat called them "male weepies": films to make a grown man, or a baby mogul, cry. They describe a heroic life struggle that may end in defeat or death but never in ignominy. There is nothing like a fighter against the odds--a caring father (Kramer vs. Kramer), a troubled teenager (Ordinary People), a young cancer victim (Terms of Endearment) or a misunderstood songwriter (Amadeus)--to exalt...