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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...
...beards and black hats: sages, perhaps, from another world. At the far end of the room, on a raised platform, is a blazing red light. The senses are suffused; the mystery deepens. There is only one persuasive explanation for this scene. It must be from a Steven Spielberg movie...
...office ionosphere; and Lucas, at least since Star Wars eight years ago, has delegated the directing of his films to other hands. Spielberg is very & hands-on; as Director Martin Scorsese puts it, "Lucas became so powerful that he didn't have to direct. But directing is what Steven has to do." Spielberg admits, "Yeah, I'm a mogul now. And I love the work the way Patton loved the stink of battle. But when I grow up, I still want to be a director...
This summer, as director and mogul, he has more than enough work to keep him happy. Two new comic adventures bear the "Steven Spielberg Presents" imprimatur. The Goonies, directed by Richard Donner from a Spielberg story, earned a healthy $41.4 million in its first 24 days' release; Back to the Future, a spiffy time-machine comedy from Director-Writer Bob Zemeckis, opened last week to positive reviews and audience acclaim. But that is just for openers. Next week E.T. will beam back down to 1,500 theaters for a saturation rerelease. At Amblin Entertainment, Spielberg's studio-within-a- studio...