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...chair is bolted to the floor near the back of a 12-ft. by 18-ft. room. You sit on a seat of cracked rubber secured by rows of copper tacks. Your ankles are strapped into half-moon-shaped foot cuffs lined with canvas. A 2-in.-wide greasy leather belt with 28 buckle holes and worn grooves where it has been pulled very tight many times is secured around your waist just above the hips. A cool metal cone encircles your head. You are now only moments away from death...
...slow motion and, when excited, breathes like an asthmatic piglet. He wants nothing more in this world than a faithful pal, unless it is to return to his out-of-this-world home. Cynics will insist he is made of aluminum, E.T. steel, fiber glass, polyurethane and foam rubber, but this is a small matter. The larger truth is that E.T. emerged from a sweet communal dream: of fellowship, loyalty, ordinary heroism, unfettered fun. He is every child's secret best friend, every adult's reverie of the innocence that was, once upon our time...
DIED. Marty Feldman, 49, cockeyed, rubber-faced, cockney comedian best remembered as the lovable hunchback Igor in Mel Brooks' Young Frankenstein and as Brooks' zany sidekick in Silent Movie; of a heart attack after completing location filming of a new comedy; in Mexico City...
...face with a pair of pajamas just at the wrong moment. Newman says he soaked his face in ice water and sometimes still does, and he actually did it on the screen in Harper and The Sting. The story goes that he puts a rubber tube into his mouth and stays submerged for two to three minutes (although one press account has inflated the figure to 20 minutes). It is the rubber tube that sounds a bit overdone...
...story about a father's struggle to understand and control a 22-year-old son. No, he says, Harry is not an attempt to deal with his feelings about his son Scott, although he "definitely" intends to make a film about Scott's death. "We were like rubber bands," he says, "one minute close, the next separated by an enormous and unaccountable distance. I don't think I'll ever escape the guilt." As the Westport week ended a few days after the election, Newman wondered whether the nuclear-freeze victory would have any influence...