When Tron Met E.T.
As today’s blog reminiscence by Baltimore Sun movie critic Mike Sragow reconfirms, some things never change. Magazine editors place their bets on certain cover story allegiances, subsequent buzz be damned.
Skragow recalls how his editors at Rolling Stone in 1982 were initially resistant to the idea of going big with feature coverage of Steven Spielberg’s E.T. But he soon figured out why:
A week or two later, I discovered the editors’ underlying rationale. “There’s only room for one sci-fi smash per summer.
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