Word: spielbergisms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Obsession and addiction: successful careers are built on these qualities, whether or not they are accompanied by talent. Spielberg had felt the craving ever since his first day on the Universal lot: "I was on the outside of a wonderful hallucination that everyone was sharing. And I wanted to do more than be a part of the hallucination. I wanted to control it. I wanted to be a ( director." And so, bankrolled by a young friend with hopes of being a producer, he wrote and directed, in ten days, for $10,000, a short film called Amblin', about...
Amazing Stories may not be an instant hit; with the exception of the Walt Disney series, no anthology show has finished in the Nielsen Top 25 since Alfred Hitchcock Presents a quarter-century ago. But it could blaze trails, or at least reopen them. With this show Spielberg is attempting to transform the weekly series from a comfortable habit to an event worth anticipating and savoring. Each Sunday night at 8, a new baby movie, with a spooky story, feature-film production values and, often as not, a distinctive visual style. One of Spielberg's own episodes, an hourlong drama...
Fall in with Spielberg and you fall into a Spielberg movie. Such is the testimony of Amy Irving, 31, as she sits in the lavish Coldwater Canyon home they share (they call it "the house that Jaws built"). In 1979 Irving had broken up with the filmmaker after a four-year affair. Then in 1983 she was on location in India and "one night, in front of three friends, I made a wish. I said, 'I wish I'd have a visitor, and I want it to be Steven.' Later that night my assistant came to me and said, 'Steven...
...walk around the gardens. When we walked inside, it started pouring again. Then, during lunch, a double rainbow appeared outside our window. It was very magical, and then I threw up. That was the first time I realized I was with child." As a memento of their visit, Spielberg bought a Monet, which hangs on their living room wall. In the den is the original Rosebud sled used in Citizen Kane. As for the discipline of fatherhood, Spielberg will let history be his guide: "My mom spoiled me. I'll spoil the baby. Amy will be strong with...
...Only the Hollywood graybeards and a flank of film critics feel like shouting, "Steven, grow up!" Whichever path he chooses, there are dangers. Walt Disney kept recycling the magic of his animated fables until the gold turned into dross. Charlie Chaplin got serious + and lost his audience. Spielberg, who says, "I want people to love my movies, and I'll be a whore to get them into the theaters," means to have it both ways: to mature as an artist while retaining his copyright on adolescent thrills and wonder, to blossom as a director while he diversifies as a mogul...