Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.PCS 1/10/84; site mtgzz.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!ihnp4!drutx!mtuxo!mtgzz!leeper From: leeper@mtgzz.UUCP (m.r.leeper) Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: Re: GOONIES Message-ID: <887@mtgzz.UUCP> Date: Wed, 3-Jul-85 01:39:58 EDT Article-I.D.: mtgzz.887 Posted: Wed Jul 3 01:39:58 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 28-Jun-85 02:16:59 EDT References: <829@mtgzz.UUCP> <477@leadsv.UUCP> <860@mtgzz.UUCP> <6098@ucla-cs.ARPA> Organization: AT&T Information Systems Labs, Middletown NJ Lines: 17 >The way I heard it, Hooper really was the director, but >Speilberg hung around the set almost constantly, offering >"advice" which was not quite instructions on how things >should be done, but came close. Hooper apparently isn't the >most assertive of men, so lots of what Speilberg suggested >was done. I also heard that Speilberg alone actually shot >some, but far from all, of "Poltergeist". > There are apparently a wide range of rumors. I know that Spielberg did publically apologize to Hooper in Variety apparently for off-the-record comments he made to newsmen that he had done much of the directing. What actually happened is still in question. Mark Leeper ...ihnp4!mtgzz!leeper