Word: spielbergisms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...paperback racks displaying science fiction, somewhere between Asimov and Bradbury. But the popular success of Ballard's Empire of the Sun (1984), an autobiographical novel about an English boy's coming of age in Shanghai during the World War II Japanese occupation, was followed last year by Steven Spielberg's acclaimed screen adaptation. Thanks to this double-barreled triumph, Ballard has been transformed from a well-kept cult secret into something resembling a household name, with the luxury and burden of knowing that his next book would generate widespread curiosity among a general audience. The Day of Creation, his eleventh...
...whose characters can inspire fresh theme-park attractions and licensed products. Disney has high hopes for this summer's combination live-action and animated feature, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, the story of Roger's search for the culprit who set him up for a murder rap. Even with Steven Spielberg producing it, the film is a major gamble. Its cost is rumored to be $38 million or more, which has inspired ominous comparisons with Howard the Duck, a notorious $35 million quacker made by Universal. Says a Hollywood insider: "I've seen a few minutes of Roger Rabbit...
...pretty much was after Walt Disney's death in 1966. Most galling of all, other people were working the old Disney wonder, and making it work at the box office. The Star Wars trilogy was putting a high-tech spin on the old Disney legerdemain. So, brilliantly, were Steven Spielberg's films: Close Encounters of the Third Kind used When You Wish upon a Star as a theme, and E.T. was "Bambi from Outer Space...
...Academy Award nominations, as usual, are perversely inconsistent. There's always one movie that's favored to sweep the Oscars and comes up with a giant zero on Nomination Day. Usually these unpopularity candidates are Steven Spielberg movies, and this year Academy members greeted Empire of the Sun with the same resounding raspberry they offered E.T. and The Color Purple...
...degree of control over their work after they are paid for it. Now Congress is considering bills that would do likewise. Because one result might be to give film artists a say in whether their work is "colorized" or similarly fiddled with, Producer George Lucas and Director Steven Spielberg showed up last week at Senate hearings to speak in favor of such legislation. If unchecked, said Lucas, "current and future technologies will alter, mutilate and destroy . . . subtle human truths...