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...walking hand in hand through the rain toward Claude Monet's house in the Paris suburb of Giverny. "Just as we arrived," Irving recalls, "the rain stopped, so we were able to walk around the gardens. When we walked inside, it started pouring again. Then, during lunch, a double rainbow appeared outside our window. It was very magical, and then I threw up. That was the first time I realized I was with child." As a memento of their visit, Spielberg bought a Monet, which hangs on their living room wall. In the den is the original Rosebud sled used...
...immigrants, "so much as a world." That judgment is ringingly appropriate to an art industry that since its inception has dominated the world market and consciousness. A wistful tramp wreaks havoc in a Manhattan pawnshop, and Asians fall in love with Charlie Chaplin. Judy Garland sings about a rainbow, and Europeans know it is only a dream away from Kansas. A California child opens the eyes of his extraterrestrial friend to a toy store's worth of American brand names, and E.T. strikes a responsive chord on every continent. For most of this century the world's fantasies have been...
...this is Oz, Dorothy," says Billina, the talking chicken, "I'd rather take my chances back in Kansas." A wise bird. Any movie in which a Midwestern prairie actually looks more attractive and more interesting than the enchanted land over the rainbow is in big trouble...
...nation during a tour through the Midwest. And he boasted a new alliance between farmers and the poor during his Harvard speech. "We marched all night long with farmers, and farmers by the thousands marched behind Jesse Jackson in $80,000 tractors with Reagan/Bush stickers on their tractors; the rainbow will survive. That march in Minnesota said that the farmers can feed the hungry, but the hungry must save the farmers." Jackson's prescription for America's agriculturalists was "farms not arms." But Jesse failed to mention that since the days of the Populist Party, farmers vote conservative in numbers...
...most important ideological element in American history has been the desperate search for the Big Score, the Real Deal, the pot of gold at the end of the red, white, and blue rainbow. The quest for the material epiphany to the American dream attracts thousands to Hollywood. Las Vegas, Wall Street, and even a ramshackle Wyoming boomtown called Gillette...