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...Editors: Your article might have taken its praise of Filmmaker Steven Spielberg [SHOW BUSINESS, July 15] one step further. We need not only more artists like him but more people like him: devoted to their craft and loyal to family and friends. C. Ralph Adler Harmony...
...hope Spielberg never grows up. Joan Leveton Miramar...
Since 1981, when I was eleven, Spielberg has been my hero and my idol. I can think of no other person who has influenced me the way he has. Thank you, Steven. Keep up the magic. Matthew Kiernan Madison...
...porno chic died long before that. If Throat in 1972 stoked the hope that hard-core might fruitfully intersect with mainstream, Jaws in 1975 ended that dream, and a few others. The Spielberg film's success, and that of Star Wars two years later, proved that the big-bucks audience comprised kids and teens, not adults, and it was the young who had to be pandered to. Adult films were largely marginalized, the hard-core back to the old grind houses (and later to video), the Hollywood ones to art houses and Oscar season. It's been that...
Director Steven Spielberg has remarked that "if E.T. hadn't come to Elliott, he would have come to Michael's house." He reflects that Jackson is like a hybrid of outer space's most famous tourist and of Chauncey Gardiner, the video-bedazzled innocent whom Peter Sellers portrayed in Being There ... Jackson lives at home in Encino, Calif., with his mother, father and two youngest sisters. He supervised the recent redesigning of the sprawling Tudor house, and the result is a cross between a vest-pocket Disneyland and Citizen Kane's Xanadu in suburbia. The menagerie, the soda fountain...