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There is no point in complaining about The Talisman as if it were a finished product, or even an ordinary novel. In fact it is something far more momentous, the first stage in the construction-the scaffolding and a few truckloads of apparitions, so to speak-of a Steven Spielberg movie. So the publicity blurbs boast. The director of Jaws and E.T. has bought the movie rights for a pot of money. Surely, by the way, this explains the dual authorship. The story's weight and complexity are not such that it is necessary to have one author shoveling...
...Talisman, as Spielberg films go, will very probably be a Poltergeist rather than an E.T., the Extraterrestrial. Which is to say, a succession of whiz-bang special effects without a memorable story or character to hold them together...
...mean," Tim Kazurinsky told Rolling Stone, "there were some sleazy motherfuckers who ripped John off when he was alive, but Bob Woodward's the only bastard low enough to pick his bones." The whole mess that has seen even terminally kind Steven Spielberg attack. Woodward stems from Woodward's wholly unsympathetic treatment of Belushi in Wired: The Short Life and Fast Times of John Belushi. As a creative enterprise, the book reads like a narrative version of the film Reefer Madness with Belushi playing all the parts...
...perfect high, it gets you there and back. (It is only those living in utter despair who choose a drug like heroin that takes you there for good: they are seeking not to holiday, but to emigrate.) The spirit of the psychic holiday was uncannily captured by Steven Spielberg, when he called Michael Jackson's peculiar child fantasy world (Disney dolls, cartoons, asexuality) a place where "I wish we could all spend some time." Living there, like living in New York, being another matter altogether...
Nicholas Gledhill as PS gives one of the finest performances by a child actor images and not one in the mold of the Spielberg cute American kid. Reminiscent of Alexander in Bergman's Funny and Alexander. Gledhill's PS is hardly a postscript. He not only captures the hearts of all the adults but is the most complete character in the story, his enormous gray blue eyes take in everything with a quiet appraisal and his innocently infantile comments reveal wisdom beyond his years...