Word: spielbergisms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...theater, a young woman on crutches stands patiently for 90 minutes, waiting to buy a ticket. Outside a theater in Washington, D.C., an elegant couple keeps cool by sipping tangerine daiquiris. Inside every theater there is applause as two names that certify movie magic appear on the screen: Steven Spielberg and E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial. One Boston man in his 20s exults: "This is our generation's Wizard of Oz." In Atlanta, two schoolgirls are still sobbing as they leave the theater, then segue into a spirited argument over who cried more. Back at the Cinerama Dome, the closing...
...shared a passion for the computer games that are the creative impulse for the film. Melvoin also visited the Disney studios in Burbank, Calif., and interviewed several top company executives. He talked with Disney alumni who have gone on to make their own animated films and with Director Steven Spielberg, the creator of E. T., who acknowledges a spiritual debt to Disney. Says Melvoin: "Visiting the Disney studios was like an invitation into a childhood dream...
...learns about Earth through a child's eyes, a perspective director Steven Spielberg emphasizes by filming parts of the movie at Elliot's height. The waddling little fellow lives among the stuffed animals, puppets and toys in Elliott's vast collection. He first learns to speak from Big Bird on Sesame Street. And his initial introduction to human society is Elliott's monologue about the artifacts on his desk. These are little men...This is Screedo, and Hammerhead, and Walrusman, and Snaggletooth...They can even have wars. (Holding up a ceramic peanut bank) This is a peanut...
Chargling that the massage is worn, the acting pedestrian and the storyline weak should not imply that E.T. fails altogether. It effectively accomplishes its modest goal: to entertain on a warm June evening. Unlike the other half of Spielberg's summer twinbill, Poltergeist, which is supposed to scare, while conveying big statements about the origins of fear and modernism--fumbling on all counts-- K.T. succeeds in providing two hours of carefree...
...Spielberg, 34, he too was dealing with-and for-legends last week. Making a long-distance telephone bid of $60,500 to an auction at Sotheby's in New York City, Spielberg acquired that most famous of cinematic props, the symbolic sled Rosebud from Orson Welles' masterpiece, Citizen Kane. It was the highest amount of money ever paid for a piece of movie memorabilia, but Spielberg was unfazed. "It would have been an insult," he said, "if it had gone for only $20,000"-the expected price tag. "Rosebud," promises the hot hit-making director, "will go over...