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...Tanen, a Paramount production boss in the '80s, called Hughes "the Steven Spielberg of youth comedy." Well, his movies were popular, with big grosses on spare budgets, but it's better to find literary analogues. In his facility for spinning the fullest comedy out of the frailest situation, he was the movies' version of playwright Alan Ayckbourn. The stay-at-home dad morphed into Mr. Mom; the annoying guy next to you became the Steve Martin-John Candy hit Planes, Trains and Automobiles. And as a portraitist of teen angst, he was a sunnier Salinger, a comedic S.E. Hinton. Anyway...
...Jackson had hoped to star in a Steven Spielberg film of the James M. Barrie play Peter Pan, about the boy from Neverland who refuses to grow up. The story's reflection of his own needs, dreams and scars was poignant. In a tearful (and top-rated) interview with Oprah Winfrey, he confessed that his father had beat him and called him ugly (this beautiful child!). Who wouldn't want a makeover of that scarred youth? Once he had the money and power, the perpetually preadolescent Jackson moved into a fantasy version of childhood, in the company of young boys...
...these movies found their audiences through word of mouth. Transformers 2 got its gigantic turnout through brand recognition and auteur pull. No question: when director Michael Bay and executive producer Steven Spielberg get out their toys to play, people will pay to watch - even if it's a not-very-interactive video game in which the stars (Shia LaBeouf and Megan Fox), and the audience too, are essentially passive onlookers at a 'bot convention where fights keep breaking out. For 2½ hours. The machine-made movie attracted nearly 30 million North Americans in the past few days...
...felony counts, including securities fraud, perjury, investment-adviser fraud, mail fraud, wire fraud, three counts of money laundering, false filings with the SEC and theft from an employee benefit plan. The scam's victims included high-profile celebrity names such as actress Kyra Sedgwick, actor Kevin Bacon, director Steven Spielberg, actress Zsa Zsa Gabor, actor John Malkovich, New York Daily News owner Mort Zuckerman and the family trust of DreamWorks CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg, as well as charities, universities, hedge funds, banks and pension funds around the world...
...even space travel; Tintin reached the moon 15 years before Neil Armstrong. Since Hergé first drew his quiffed hero, about 230 million Tintin comic books have sold around the world, translated into more than 80 languages. And now Hollywood has got its hands on him, with Steven Spielberg producing a Tintin movie trilogy in 3D. (See a TIME video about...