Word: steven
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Steven M. Faulkner...
Directed and Written by Steven Spielberg...
...Degas dancer, as popular as the Model T Ford. In fact, film has become a most pliable plastic art. A wily producer, a finicky censor, even a TV executive can alter or destroy the film's shape, texture and meaning. Now the directors are playing at cinema surgery: Steven Spielberg has just issued a "special edition" of his 1977 hit, Close Encounters of the Third Kind. As one film critic observes: "People used to ask me if I'd seen a certain movie. Now they ask which version I've seen...
...Steven Spielberg, child and master of the movie machine, is another film maker who shows an itch to play Silly Putty with finished work. His first TV feature, Duel, was released in a longer version for theaters in Europe. Last year when ABC aired Jaws, Spielberg added a few scenes cut from the original print. Now he has reworked Close Encounters, deleting 25 minutes from the original print and incorporating 20 minutes of outtakes and new footage. The result: the "new" Close Encounters is different-and the same...
Five years ago, Steven Hertzberg, 32, earned a Ph.D. in history at the University of Chicago. He soon learned that a degree in his field was almost worthless in the marketplace. History departments have not been flourishing of late, and the only job he could find was a part-time assistant professorship at Minnesota's Carleton College. Annual pay: $6,000. "I wanted to stay in teaching," he recalls, "but I had an antipathy toward starving." Today Hertzberg runs his own hardware store in Queens, N.Y., and makes almost three times as much as the average assistant professor...