Cheers to a fellow E.T. fan. I love that movie, it is in my top 5. I remember seeing it in the theater when it came out and it blew my mind. Such a beautiful, quality film. My wife and I were in Austin last year for the E.T. screening for the Summer of 1982 and saw it in an original 35mm print...it was gorgeous. Got both McCarthy versions, of course.
My oldest daughter is 4 and wants to dress up like Gertie for Halloween, with the overalls, pig tails, sunflowers in a pot, the whole works. She wants to put this huge ET doll I bought her in a wagon and pull him around the neighborhood. She claims I have to be Elliot, haha...we will see. I will post a pic.
That's a nice story, Ben. One question though... Does she want to dress like Gertie because she truly loves ET or because she wants to be closer to Daddy and love what he loves?
I was in Paris when ET came out... December 1st, 1982. I think I saw it 10 times in a row. You know, when you're a kid, you can see the same movie over and over and over. That's what I did. Every other day. I think I took everybody in my family, my brother, my sister, my uncle, the dog. Then I met Spielberg who was staying at the Hotel de Crillon with Amy Irving. I think I was stalking them. I got both their signatures on a piece of paper. Try to get that today. He told me to go to USC. I listened, stored it and never forgot it. Years later I moved to America and went to USC. Then I ended up working at DreamWorks where I met my wife. And then at Amblin a few doors down from him. And now I have this collection of posters. All of it because of ET.
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