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From: upstill@ucbvax.UUCP (Steve Upstill)
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Subject: Re: --SPIELBERG'S-- GREMLINS
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Date: Wed, 27-Jun-84 13:16:44 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun 27 13:16:44 1984
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   Fa cryin out loud!  Spielberg may be a movie magician, but I doubt his
cosmic influence extends from London (where he was working on Indiana 
Jones) to LA (where Gremlins was shot at the same time).  He bought the
script.  He raised the money (you think producers put up their OWN money
to make a movie?  You think SPIELBERG puts up his own money to make a 
movie, when every third person in Hollywood would sell his mother to get
a piece of a Spielberg film?  You want to buy a bridge?).  He did not
write it.  He did not direct it.  He wasn't on the set.  It has Joe Dante
written all over it:  it has more cynicism than Spielberg can imagine,
and it can even be read as a dead-on satire of Spielberg and his cutesy
creature act.

   Sure the ads say "Spielberg presents..."  The ads would say "Jesus Christ
presents..." if it would sell tickets...