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...Extra-Terrestrial , the little botanist from outer space has beguiled $310 million worth of U.S. movie goers since June, easily outpacing the previous front runner, Star Wars. With December openings in foreign capitals, he is starting to duplicate that triumph around the globe. A novelization of Melissa Mathison's script has sold more than 3 million copies, an illustrated storybook another million. Heartlight, Neil Diamond's musical homage to E.T, has sold more than a million albums since September. And, even in this recession-blitzed Christmas season, E.T. dolls were whisked off department-store shelves as fast as they could...
...gratification of the child's delight in wondering "What comes next, Daddy?" It is enough to say that E.T. stands securely in the company of some classic children's stories, from Peter Pan to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. With the crucial help of Screenwriter Melissa Mathison, who was present every day on the set, Spielberg has infused comic and dramatic tension into a story in which, one comes to realize, there are no villains. Everyone is nice, and the conflict comes from a taffy pull between good and greater good. That conflict is achingly strong, its resolution...
Screenwriter Melissa Mathison, 32, who wrote the script for E.T., was struck by the unusual warmth of the production family Spielberg has gathered around him, notably Producers Frank Marshall, 35, and Kathleen Kennedy, 28. Says Mathison: "None of us is afraid to tell Steven he is wrong. He's a softy, as big a sap as anyone. But he rarely lets that show in his movies. He kept fretting that E.T. was too soft, until finally he stopped worrying about pleasing the men in the audience." Spielberg sees his relationship to Mathison as symbiotic: "Melissa is 80% heart...
...centered on the nature of the lecture series itself, which is sponsored by the John M. Olin Foundation, a conservative think-tank. Protestors and a number of faculty members have expressed concern over the right-wing nature of the Olin Foundation and its alleged connections with the Olin Mathison Chemical Corporation, a chief supplier of gunpowder to the armed forces...
Students and faculty are concerned about the Olin Foundation's "alleged ties" with the Olin Mathison Chemical Corporation, a major supplier of gunpowder to the U.S. military, Cluver added...