On Independence Day some friends asked if I wanted to join them at the theater to see the new Steven Spielberg movie Disclosure Day. I went with them and we agreed afterward that it’s a great movie! Not Spielberg’s best but it’s definitely tapping into “old school Spielberg” that a lot of us remember from our youth, with a dash of the “mature Spielberg” who has been with us since Schindler’s List.
That is how I gauge our greatest living filmmaker. There is the Steven Spielberg that I met at the Boy Scout Jamboree in 1989: the “big kid” who was as giddy as a schoolboy, dancing around in his Scout uniform. That’s the man who brought us E.T. and Indiana Jones and Jaws and the dinosaurs of Jurassic Park. He had a childlike twinkle in his eye and we were fortunate to have him.
Then Spielberg went
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