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...genesis of several of his films. Close Encounters was born one night when young Steven's father woke the six-year-old and drove him to a large meadow to see a meteor shower. E.T. and The Goonies find their wellsprings in the need of a young outcast for a playmate, real or imagined. Poltergeist, which Spielberg describes as being "all about the terrible things I did to my younger sisters," also emerged from a spooky encounter (ethereal figure, shivery bedroom, car that wouldn't start) that the filmmaker experienced in 1972. Each picture has allowed him to remake...
Officially, Harvard does nothing to make me feel like an outcast. Nor does it officially ostracize disabled students, Sanskrit majors, or people who live outside the Houses. But the little interactions with out fellow students...
...French Canadians; one might as well have been fluent in Pushtu." Still, she perseveres, ultimately finds a job on a local newspaper and sets out to become a writer, much as the author herself did in the late 1940s. Such determination and pluck are rare among Gallant's outcast characters. When the girl's native country fails to meet her standards, she puts up a fight. "If I say . . . that the Winter Palace was stormed on Sherbrooke Street, that Trafalgar was fought on Lake St. Louis, I mean it naturally," she says. "They were the natural backgrounds of my exile...
Perhaps the most explicitly and consistently autobiographical of major American dramatists, Williams balanced lyrical language and wistful reverie against a backdrop of barely repressed violence and sex (for him, they were much the same). He sided always with the outcast, and most of his social exiles were reviled, not merely because they belonged to an oppressed group but because there was something deeply askew in their psyches. Williams pursued men sexually but delighted in the company of women and viewed most of his heroines as extensions of himself, valorous but doomed. In Iguana, Summer and Smoke, Suddenly Last Summer...
...MASK. Director Peter Bogdanovich musters up all the originality of the average Hallmark card Bogdanovich drenches the tragic life story of facially disfigured outcast Rocky Dennis with more sugar than the family size package of Cocoa Crispies, making John Hurt's Elephant Man look like the Wild Coyote by comparison. Climcal direction and Monday Night at the Movies screenwriting damn Mask into an abyss of sloppiness and unprofessionalism from which it is redeemed only by Eric Stoltz's tour-deforce in the title role and superb performances by Cher as Rocky's wackedout but tenderhearted Mom and Sam Elliott...