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From: leeper@mtgzz.UUCP (m.r.leeper)
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Subject: Re: GOONIES
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Date: Wed, 3-Jul-85 01:39:58 EDT
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 >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
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