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...film begins after the funeral of Arkansas native Earl Pilcher's (Duvall) mother. In a letter written before her death, she reveals that, although he looks white, Pilcher's real mother was a black woman, a maid forced into a sexual relation with his father. She died after giving birth to Earl, who was afterwards taken into the Pilcher household and brought up as a legitimate son because of his white skin and features. Further, Earl learns that through his natural mother he has a half brother named Ray Murdoch, now a policeman living in Chicago...
...this intended moment of epiphany somehow falls flat, spoiled by Aunt T.'s inappropriate exclamation "You were as white as an angel!" In general, the women in "A Family Thing"--Aunt T., Mrs. Pilcher, Ray's and Earl's mother--are too saintly to be true, while the men are either churls (like Pilcher, Sr.) or burdened by a huge chip on the shoulder. Like balky horses, they must be forced into decent, sensible behavior by their womenfolk. "A Family Thing" would probably have been more convincing had nobility and selfishness been more evenly divided between the two sexes...
...process. Then Spielberg turned to Carlo Rambaldi, an Italian painter and sculptor. Rambaldi first came to the U.S. in 1975 as a consultant on King Kong, then in 1978 set up a small shop in Los Angeles. He 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...
...Gary Pilcher Youngstown, Ohio
...need to maintain a certain level of physical fitness, especially as they get older." Linda Stern Rubin of TIME'S Midwest bureau found Detroit engineers and designers conducting surveys and motion tests to determine ways to make automobile seats more comfortable. The Los Angeles bureau's Joseph Pilcher visited several "pain clinics," where such unconventional therapies such as acupuncture and electrical stimulation help patients deal with back pain...