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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most magical moments of Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind, scientists stare in unashamed wonder at the first appearance of a little space creature. In the 1981 television version, they just stared: the space creature was cut out of the picture. "It was a disaster," Spielberg recalls. "It looked worse than the super-8 movies I make myself." Says Stanley Kubrick, whose 2001 lost the introduction of the star child in its wondrous last sequence to some bad panning and scanning in 1977: "It's a very unsatisfactory technique. It destroyed the compositional elements...
Reported by Steven Holmes/ Los Angeles and Gary Lee/ Washington
What accounts for the show's resurgent popularity? The Cleaver household is quintessentially suburban, the prime-time equivalent of John Cheever's sunlit lawns and the immediate ancestor of Steven Spielberg's split-levels. June forever emerges from the kitchen flawlessly coiffed and groomed, carrying a tray of freshly baked cookies. Ward, like all TV dads, disappears between 9 and 5 to a nameless job, but his real occupation is mowing the lawn and having heart-to-hearts with the boys. Wally, earnest and rather thick, is a slightly more amiable and less somnambulant Rick Nelson...
...Steven A. Silva...
...message in Steven Spielberg's E.T. is similar, but hardly as pessimistic, The main characters in this film are not merely likeable; they're irresistible. The relationship between the boy, Elliott (Henry Thomas), and his extraterrestrial friend is so real that we almost forget that E.T. is a mechanical creature. Spielberg draws our attention away from the technological wizardry and toward the human side of the story, toward the very simple themes of love and friendship...