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...With Francis Ford Coppola, 38, as elder statesman heading a core group of four directors, the new artisans form a tightly knit tribe, remarkably-Tree of fraternal competition. Together, they have almost taken over the industry. Coppola scored with The Godfather, Martin Scorsese, 34, with Taxi Driver, and Steven Spielberg, 30, with Jaws, the top-grossing film of all time. John Milius, 33, directed The Wind and the Lion and has written several scripts; Producer Gary Kurtz, 36, produced both Star Wars and American Graffiti...
...romantic, like kids picking oranges in an old Jane Powell movie." There are notable similarities among the group. "They all seem to have repressed childhoods of one form or another," says a friend. "Marty Scorsese is asthmatic, Francis Coppola had polio when he was a child, and Steve Spielberg is slight of build, like George. They all work out their fantasies on film...
...does not in fact do that. He even entertains his cast and crew with movie screenings. Liv Ullmann laughs as she recalls how much Bergman enjoyed Jaws: "We teased him, telling him how a young director like Steven Spielberg worked so hard on the open seas trying to get a mechanical fish to work, while he, ever the lazy director, liked to sit in a room with two women and watch them...
...responsibility," muses Francois Truffaut, 44, considering his film role in Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Having coped with heavier duties as a director (Jules and Jim, The Story of Adele H.), Truffaut is now appearing in his first American movie as an actor, under the direction of Steven Spielberg, 28, Hollywood's hottest prodigy (Jaws). The new film, which depicts an encounter between earthlings and extraterrestrial beings, is being shot in elaborate secrecy at an abandoned Air Force hangar in Mobile, Ala. So far the secrecy seems to suit Spielberg just fine. "Directing a movie with Truffaut...
JAWS. The great white shark brought in $150 million, promoted a lot of jokes about ocean swimming and made, not incidentally, a vastly entertaining thriller directed by Steven Spielberg...