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Enter The Color Purple, an epistolary novel about incest, sexual brutality, sapphic love and the indomitable will to survive. It did not seem the sort of material Steven Spielberg would touch with a ten-foot wand. Which is precisely why he went for it. "The Color Purple is the biggest challenge of my career," he proclaims. "When I read it I loved it; I cried and cried at the end. But I didn't think I would ever develop it as a project. Finally I said, I've got to do this for me. I want to make something that...
...King Stag has a meaning too. It ends when the magician Duandarte, like Shakespeare's Prospero before him, lays down his magic wand and returns to life among men and natural phenomena--but not before saying that, finally, the best fantasies do not escape reality but return to it refreshed with the hope that the ordinary can be wonderful. And he is right. When you leave the Loeb, the streetlights--well, at least the stars--will seem to wink...
...cordless microphone passing from hand to hand around the bar is a magic wand, transforming people into singing stars, romantic desperadoes, family. Betty holds the mike for Terry, who sings This Love of Mine. They gaze into each other's eyes. Tenderness seems to rise in a cloud from Margaret's keyboard. A wild, passionate embrace, something along the lines of the Tabu perfume ad, seems inevitable. "This is the only place you can come and make a fool of yourself in front of your friends," says Terry. "Of course, we've been married 31 years...
...hauled out a fishing-tackle box that contained his magic tricks. That is his ritual these days. He waved a black wand. At his cry of "Hah!" it turned into a red flag. "Pretty good?" A white cone snapped into life as a handkerchief. Balls appeared and vanished. A dime disappeared into a penny...
Alan Kay, chief scientist of Atari, closed the conference with a vision of the video-game joy stick as a magic wand capable of creating new worlds. The video game, he said, aligned with the computer, was "a new kind of kinetic art," a medium that will allow the user to explore his own imagination. "Games are the most important thing ever invented," he noted, "because they allow us to control and amplify our fantasies...