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...That's pure Spielberg: the story of a stranded or abandoned child searching for signposts to home, for the reunion of the nuclear family. This Hansel-and-Gretel motif has been playing from his first feature, The Sugarland Express (two young marrieds struggle to rescue their child from foster parents), through half a dozen other films he has directed or produced (Poltergeist, Back to the Future, The Goonies, Empire of the Sun, Hook, Saving Private Ryan). That's a pretty full gallery of lost boys and girls. And what is that little parchment-pated E.T. but a precocious kid, light...
...biggest thing Bush has going for him is he's not Clinton. G.W. is no saint, but compared with Clinton, he's close. ROGER C. BURTON Sugarland, Texas...
Spielberg's first important theatrical film was The Sugarland Express, made in 1974, a time when gifted auteurs like Scorsese, Altman, Coppola, De Palma and Malick ruled Hollywood. Their god was Orson Welles, who made the masterpiece Citizen Kane entirely without studio interference, and they too wanted to make the Great American Movie. But a year later, with Jaws, Spielberg changed the course of modern Hollywood history. Jaws was a hit of vast proportions, inspiring executives to go for the home run instead of the base hit. And it came out in the summer, a season the major studios...
...gave us Bonnie and Clyde, Butch and Sundance. The '70s gave us The Sugarland Express and Badlands. Maybe one of the troubles with the '80s was that its movies were singularly lacking in truly memorable outlaw couples. Thelma & Louise is a sign that things are looking...
Starman is not so much a clone as that familiar subspecies, the Hollywood hybrid. If any scene worked in any earlier movie, it is used here, and it works here. Start with the collected works of Steven Spielberg (E. T., Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Sugarland Express), add the opposites-attract love story of every road movie from It Happened One Night to Romancing the Stone, and give it the glaze of cerulean romance. It is as if the United Nations had launched a videodisk containing snippets from every Hollywood genre, which had then been synthesized...