Word: spielberger
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...Kennerly took the cover picture for this issue and many of the other photos for the story (including an exclusive one of Baby Max and his proud parents). Says he: "I don't recall dealing with anybody, in government and politics or in Hollywood, who was as cooperative as Spielberg. He is a very private person who doesn't normally allow the press into his life. And he was extremely busy. But he constantly took time...
...assignment was an especially intriguing one for Kennerly, who had just completed a nine-month fellowship in film directing at Los Angeles' American Film Institute. "When Spielberg invited me to shoot on the set of The Color Purple," says Kennerly, "I watched very carefully how he went about his directing. It was the best possible graduation present...
...beards and black hats: sages, perhaps, from another world. At the far end of the room, on a raised platform, is a blazing red light. The senses are suffused; the mystery deepens. There is only one persuasive explanation for this scene. It must be from a Steven Spielberg movie...
Well, no. And yes. It is Spielberg's earliest memory, from a day in 1948 when he was taken in a stroller to a Cincinnati synagogue for a service with Hasidic elders. "The old men were handing me little crackers," Spielberg recalls. "My parents said later I must have been about six months old at the time." What a memory; and what profitable use he has found for his memories and fantasies. If this synagogue scene has never made it into one of the director-producer's movies, still the mood and metaphor it represents -- of fear escalating into wonder...
...direct but developed and "presented," 17th. Only his pal George Lucas, with whom he collaborated on Raiders and Indiana Jones, approaches that patch of box-office ionosphere; and Lucas, at least since Star Wars eight years ago, has delegated the directing of his films to other hands. Spielberg is very & hands-on; as Director Martin Scorsese puts it, "Lucas became so powerful that he didn't have to direct. But directing is what Steven has to do." Spielberg admits, "Yeah, I'm a mogul now. And I love the work the way Patton loved the stink of battle. But when...