European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 08, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Steven Spielberg the boy May be gone but the wonder s still there by Steve Dollar Cox news services a Mush. Steven Spielberg baseball Cap in hand is Silling in a posh Beverly Hills hotel suite chatting about his new film the supernatural melodrama always. He s circled by the usual gang of journalists who in the condensed space of a half hour Are Here to learn that by Golly the director in t such a kid anymore. Spielberg once the wizardry Darling of the 70s new Hollywood More recently a Mogul in his own right wants the press to know he s grown up. Cleaned the slate. Dispatched Indiana Jones on his last crusade to Box office glory. Try As he might though the director knows he will never be Able to kiss the boy wonder image goodbye. Though his films Are turning increasingly to serious themes and personal explorations Spielberg remains fixed in the Media s Eye As an overgrown adolescent Genius sprawled on a Hollywood carpet playing with his scale Model raiders of the lost Ark toys. It s a notion he s grown accustomed to. That s going to haunt me to says i swear to you. It s going to haunt me until in tact i m moving around like an old Tortoise with e to s face and that s  it s True. The Wunderkind is 42, but still Youthful even with his Beard espousing the Earnest ambling airs of some hip College professor who wears scuffed jeans and mud Brown loafers a Guy who looks like $47, even though Forbes Magazine says he made $64 million this year. The single most influential filmmaker of his generation but a movie fan first someone who la slip into a Westwood theater to see a new comedy even though they recognize me with my Cap on or off these Days he says. Richard Dreyfuss a Friend since he acted in Spielberg s 1975 film jaws and the Star of a ways thinks critics have got it wrong. This whole thing about him being a boy wonder people underline the boy too much and the movie director Steven Spielberg right with former president Reagan. Both received honors from the american jewish committee. Wonder not enough the actor says. Yet even always a Spielberg an remake of Victor Fleming s 1944 a Guy named Joe is anchored in the director s youth. Spielberg was 12 when he first saw the film on to in Black and White and May it forever remain in Black and White and became enthralled. It s a supernatural tale of Pete Spencer Tracy world War ii Pilot whose love for Dorinda Irene Dunnean earthbound servicewomen transcends his own death. The character returns As a spectral presence coaching a Young Pilot Van Johnson who unexpectedly becomes a romantic rival. I would t have remade this if i could have come up with a better Story on this subject says Spielberg who commissioned some dozen scripts in a nine year struggle to make the film. But i was so touched by the idea the concept of a Romance like this it had haunted me like Pete haunts Dorinda. Unlike Pete it never released  transposed to present Day Montana the film s characters fight raging Forest fires instead of nazis and wrestle with their emotions in an Effort to communicate their deepest feelings. The new love Triangle posits Dreyfuss in the Spencer Tracy role As a fus Sily egocentric daredevil Pilot whose love for Holly Hunter s Spunky Lorinda is challenged by Ted newcomer Brad Johnson the Novice flier whom the heavens in the form of Audrey Hepburn command him to guide. John Goodman the buoyant Good of boy character actor Abc s top rated Roseanne the big easy sea of love adds comic ballast As Pete s Rowdy Best buddy. Through the years Spielberg despaired of Ever solving the film s monumental screenplay woes i could t get the script right and i did t know what movie i wanted to make he says. Part of the problem was the avoidance of obvious special effects which lend to silliness in a genre the supernatural Romance whose recent incarnations hello again. Chances Are made in heaven shakily suspended belief with Tho frail est of narrative threads. In a lot of the earlier drafts Richard walked through Walls Spielberg says. He put his hands through things. He glowed. It was riddled with gimmicks and tricks and All the stuff that i guess i do really Well i guess that s Why i did t want to do it. It s a Romance Between three people and one of them happens to be not with us any longer but can be very influential. I wanted to be a Purist in that sense. 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