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This week's cover story on Filmmaker Steven Spielberg is TIME's third cover- length look at the Hollywood superczar and his work. But it is the first appearance of Spielberg himself on the cover. For a 1975 account of the making of Jaws, his first megahit, the cover honors went to Bruce, the mechanical great white shark. A second, planned cover, in 1982, heralding E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial and Poltergeist, was bumped at the last minute when British troops landed on the Falkland Islands, though a long story ran inside. In the three years since E.T., notes Senior Writer...
Reporting on Spielberg's life and work is indeed a process of re-entering the $ world of youth, says Show Business Correspondent Denise Worrell. "Once Steven's your friend, you're one of the goonies. I heard him say to someone, 'Good friends like us will stick like tar.' That's Steven, he believes in blood brothers. He makes you think of secret childhood rites and solemn oaths of friendship." Worrell spent long hours on the set to get an inside look at Spielberg's new film The Color Purple, and his upcoming TV series Amazing Stories. She interviewed...
...Kennerly took the cover picture for this issue and many of the other photos for the story (including an exclusive one of Baby Max and his proud parents). Says he: "I don't recall dealing with anybody, in government and politics or in Hollywood, who was as cooperative as Spielberg. He is a very private person who doesn't normally allow the press into his life. And he was extremely busy. But he constantly took time...
...rites of summer! Baseball and sunbathing. Picnics by the old swimming hole. Heat prostration and killer mosquitoes. Steven Spielberg movies. For the fifth consecutive summer, this tireless auteur-mogul has placed his name on a fantasy adventure or two designed to turn sentient adults into wonder-lusting children. Spielberg directed neither of the inevitable hits before us: he wrote the story and served as an executive producer of The Goonies; he shepherded Back to the Future toward production, then pretty much left the film's creators on their merry own. But his candy-smirched fingerprints are evident on both projects...
Which is only to say that The Goonies is as hip, sassy and innocent as its seven teenage heroes. In the Spielberg tradition, each youngster uses his or her ordinary strengths to forge, and then save, a community of lost souls. Wise-Guy Mouth (Corey Feldman) translates the Spanish on an old map; Data (Ke Huy-Quan) gets out of scrapes with his Rube Goldberg gadgets; pretty Andy (Kerri Green) plays the Death Organ; Stef (Martha Plimpton) socks a crone on the jaw; Chunk (Jeff B. Cohen) finds an unlikely friend who loves junk food as much as he does...