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Star Wars: “What’s this Farts of Others?”
From Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-and-Rock ‘N’ Roll Generation Saved Hollywood by Peter Biskind Lucas felt he was ready to screen Star Wars. The special effects weren’t finished, and George had cut in black and white dogfights from … Continue reading
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Close Encounters Story: Those Five Notes
At the Spielberg seminar, we spent (of course) quite a bit of time on Close Encounters. Spielberg told the story of the meteor shower (in Part 1), and also said that it had always been his dream, or fantasy, or … Continue reading
Close Encounters Story: Spielberg and his Dad
Steven Spielberg came to my school and gave a seminar. Many of you have probably seen the thing on television, and have probably seen a red-headed pale-faced chick among the faces in the crowd. That was me. Spielberg was incredible … Continue reading
Tom Hanks, Archetype
I so look forward to the day when Tom Hanks no longer picks roles where he is a symbol, a myth, a metaphor, a representation of something else, a stand-in for an idea or a concept, a comment-on-the-American-personality, a comment-on-humanity, … Continue reading
