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“E.T.” full of innocence,
deserves to be summer hit
by Eric Truax
Battalion Reviewer
Imagine that you are explor
ing a planet 3 million light-years
from your home when you are
suddenly discovered by the
planet’s natives. Your shipmates
escape with the spacecraft, but
they have left you behind — left
alone in an alien environment,
extremely frightened of the cre
atures chasing you, and faced
with the prospect of never
seeing your home again.
The planet is Earth, though,
not Tau Ceti VI, and the cast
away is “E.T. The Extra-
Terrestrial,” a wonderfully re
freshing new film from produc
er/director Steven Spielberg
who makes it up to us after
assaulting our senses with the
unnecessarily gruesome “Pol
tergeist.”
The story, by Melissa Mathi-
son (who co-wrote “The Black
Stallion 41 ), soon has the
marooned extra-terrestrial disc
overed and befriended by Elliot,
a 10-year-old whose father has
recently run out on his mother
and whose siblings both have
worlds of their own. He keeps
the E.T. in his bedroom closet
where he brings it food and
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teaches it about Earth. A tele
pathic empathy soon forms be
tween the two which is first sug
gested in a hilarious scene in
which E.T. is looking for some
thing to eat and finds and drinks
several beers. Elliot is in class ab
out to dissect frogs when he be
gins to feel quite drunk and,
acting on a whim, begins to re
lease all the alien-looking frogs.
Elliot, of course, is very soon
escorted back home. Soon he
learns of E.T.’s increasing
homesickness and his desire to
return home, and must face the
possibility of his closest friend
leaving him in his sterile, sub
urban world.
The child actors are absolute
ly marvelous, never ringing
false, particularly Henry Tho
mas as Elliot. Dee Wallace also
fares well as Elliot’s somewhat
rattled mother trying to keep
her family’s life together. Spiel
berg also succeeds with his mil-
lion-dollar alien, the E.T. He’s
short, squat, and tends to wad
dle when he walks, but one is
always able to see a warm, intelli
gent being in this creature
whose eyes are reportably a
cross between Carl Sandburg
and Ernest Hemingway.
Those people expecting a se
quel to “Close Encounters,” or
light shows similar to those
found in it, will find little to com
pare between the two. Some may
find E.T.’s spaceship more than
vaguely reminiscent of the ships
from Spielberg’s previous
encounter film. Beyond *
though, the qualities oftlit
films remain distinctlyditfi
“E.T.” is a story about
like love and innocencevid
out in an artificial adult
Only the children are ever
to truly understand theEI
his needs. The adults, whed
finally see the E.T., petti
only an alien to be keptalivtjfesraeli i
studied as an oddity. Brian pc
“E.T.” has manyofthetjlied Be
ities of, and really quite relay and
bles, the classic children’smlth Pale*
“The Little Prince." The tpfthe Le
der, magic, and innott irenewi
which make “The LittlePti® The
so timeless also serve to
“E.T.” a movie destined
come a classic for all ages;s Israeli an
sic which is sometimes fy rian tank
sometimes sad, and at tjpesday,
quite exhilarating. It is eti
thing a summer movieshoultl
and deserves to be one of
biggest box-office hits in y«
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JACKSON, Miss. — The Mis
sissippi capital, known for mag
nolias and an occasional Miss
America, is sprucing up for
scrutiny by the once-foreign
world of ballet.
For only the second time in its
history, the United States is the
host of the International Ballet
Competition June 20 through
July 4, and for the second time,
Jackson is the host city.
Twenty-five Americans and
60 other competitors from 18
countries will vie for gold, silver
and bronze medals and prize
money totalling $50,000.
“At first Los Angeles tried to
get the thing together, followed
by Denver, New York and Phi
ladelphia,” IBC executive dire
ctor William Leighton said. “But
they never could get the financ
ing. I don’t know why here and
nowhere else, but the business-
merwiecided this really is a won
derful thing and we really want
to do it here.”
The competitions, sometimes
called the “Olympics of Dance,”
began in Varna, Bulgaria, in
1964. Because of the artistic suc
cess and prestige of this event,
similar competitions were estab
lished in Moscow in 1969 and in
Tokyo in 1976.
The list of medal winners
from the three cities includes
such names as Mikhail Barysh
nikov, Fernando Bujones, Alex
ander Godunov, Ivan Nagy and
Martine van Hamel.
An artistic Iron Curtain was
cracked last summer, when a
predominantly Russian jury
made Amanda McKerrow, 17,
the first American to win a gold
medal in Moscow.
mobile homes, the IBCss
nizers must have feltthatif
could just get past this fintti
petition, the rest would be
They were, in more ways I
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when all on stage was sweet]
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“I know it’s a cliche,” said
Leighton, “but these are nothing
less than the ballet stars of
tomorrow.”
The first time Jackson held an
IBC, the organizers had just
eight weeks to dig out and dry
out after the worst flood in the
city’s history. The downtown
area was inundated that dis
astrous Easter Sunday in 1979 as
the Pearl River overflowed its
banks.
As a result, the group Ir
New York and Philadelpbiic
chose Jackson in the first]
severed its relationship will
city. The Jackson backers, c
bravura that shocked manjl
the time, proclaimed theym
host the IBC on their own
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what the confusion was
Leighton said. “You can od
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The Red Cross aided 6,100
people, many of whom were re
ndered homeless — and many
of whom were counted on for
the $750,000 needed to pull off
the IBC. But pull it off Jackson
did, reaching back for the spirit
of forebears who survived Civil
War burnings.
The event attracted 73 com
petitors from 18 countries and a
distinguished jury cochaired by
America’s Robert Jeffrey and
the Soviet Union’s Sophia
Golovkina, director of the Bol
shoi Ballet School.
In those hectic days of final
fund-raising, when many of the
city’s monied were living in
but delibenn
however, the Mississippi ca[
has spent the past three
strengthening its grip o
event.
Jackson and Varna off
became sister cities recently,
ited by their love of dance, Ji
son won official U.S, sam
for its IBC in a bill
House and Senate and si]
President Reagan.
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