Word: spielbergisms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Perhaps the biggest attention grabber in the Canada pavilion, however, is Hystar, a 16-ft. flying saucer that bears more than a passing resemblance to one of Steven Spielberg's interstellar luxury liners. Filled with helium and propelled by five tiny rotors, Hystar puts on a show in the main hall every 20 minutes, moving, without help of strings or wires, up, down and sideways, as if it had never heard of gravity. The insouciant little saucer has been such a hit--often getting spontaneous applause--that its builders plan to equip it with a TV camera next month...
...Steven Spielberg's controversial The Color Purple, which had received eleven nominations--the same number as Out of Africa--won no awards at all. Based on Alice Walker's novel, Purple is a saga about rural Southern black women in the first decades of the century. Some blacks claimed that it insulted black men by depicting them as child abusers and wife beaters; others defended the film as a breakthrough for blacks in Hollywood. The argument was complicated when Spielberg failed to gain a nomination as Best Director--a sign, said his friends, that the industry establishment envied his commercial...
...evening's best musical numbers might. While Irene Cara sang what was called a hymn to the losers, a list flashed on the screen of other motion pictures that had failed in the Best Picture category. They included Citizen Kane, Tootsie, The Wizard of Oz and, alas, Spielberg...
...seen at. Chevy Chase had already made his mark there, and left for Hollywood. John Belushi had brought his brute comic force to Animal House, which pulled down some $150 million at the box office, and he and his buddy Dan Aykroyd were spending off-time starring in Steven Spielberg's home-front destruction derby 1941. Gilda Radner was the country's favorite comedy Kewpie, and Bill Murray, a shambling declension of goofiness, was hoving into view...
...PURPLE,' 11; 'AFRICA,' 11; SPIELBERG, 0. That Los Angeles Times headline last week trumpeted the most anomalous Oscar nomination outcome in recent years. Both chosen as best picture candidates, Out of Africa and The Color Purple tied for the most nominations with eleven each. Africa's total included a nomination for best actress to Meryl Streep and for best director to Sydney Pollack, but while Whoopi Goldberg was named for Purple, Director Steven Spielberg was glaringly omitted, after being nominated three times in the past. Why? Some of Hollywood's glittersnipes speculate that it is sheer jealousy over his relentless...