From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!eagle!mhuxt!mhuxa!mhuxh!mhuxm!pyuxjj!rlr Newsgroups: net.movies Title: Re: ET (Spoiler) Article-I.D.: pyuxjj.235 Posted: Mon Jun 21 08:39:42 1982 Received: Thu Jun 24 01:39:22 1982 NO! NO! NO! E.T. did NOT need to be packed in ice! If cold was what he needed, why did he fizzle out and turn all white after staying out in the cold night air????? I still think the theory about proximity to his own species (i.e., a transmitted life force received in his abdomen) makes the most sense. Any other opinions? (Reading the book is no guarantee of knowing the right answer either; such novelizations need not be even close to the original intention.) Rich Rosen pyuxjj!rlr