Word: spaceman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jersey Senator Bill Bradley throws his hat in the Presidential ring for 1984,daclaring: "With Fritz laid up, I'm the best we've got." The Soviet news agency Tass observes. "Only in America could a spaceman and a basketball player be fighting for the chance to run against a former unemployed actor for President...
...percent. National polls now show he has pulled ahead of the Ohio Senator, and campaign manager Howard Cosell exults. "We can almost taste it now, right, Dandy Don?" The candidate himself is gleeful at his upset. "Of my talents there can be no mirth/ I brought the Spaceman down to Earth," he declares...
When visiting Los Angeles on business earlier this year. E. T. reportedly told movie producer Steven Spielberg of his burning desire to interact with his earthbound relative. T. V. The crafty Spielberg, realizing the spaceman's superstar potential, guaranteed the wide-eyed creature that he would get his wish, but only in exchange for exclusive rights to his life story...
...relationship is provided by the unemotional scientists who threaten to destroy the bond between child and creature. In the opening sequence, they are filmed from a child's perspective, so that their heads are out of the camera's range. They become more foreign to the audience than the spaceman himself. They are the enemy because they represent a complete lack of subjective feeling. To Elliott, E.T. is a friend--a cross between a pet and a bosom buddy; to them, he is merely a subject for scrutiny...
...screening and watched an audience of grim professionals laugh and cry after two weeks of wheeling and dealing. During the last minute of the film, the applause kept growing until the fadeout, when an exaltation of bravos enveloped Spielberg as if Pavarotti and not a 3-ft. 6-in. spaceman were ascending into the heavens. The Cannes elite, happy to see its convention end on a note of triumph, seemed ready to elect Spielberg President of France. -By Richard Corliss