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The color purple.
From:
National Review
| Date:
February 14, 1986| Author:
Simon, John
| COPYRIGHT 1986 National Review, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information
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The Color Purple
WHAT IS AN insuperable problem for a filmmaker who specializes in gadgets, sentimentalized children, and cute creatures from outer space? Adults --anything at all to do with grownups living their quotidian lives. To be sure, this is a problem for Hollywood as a whole; it is more intensely so for Steven Spielberg, for whom becoming a movie director seems to have been the surest way of trading in his toys for bigger and bigger toys while (in a juvenile vers...
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