In the end, it took him 40 years to produce his own broadside against the US foreign policy of his youth. In uncharacteristically political style, he spent most of it drawing parallels to the then current resident of the White House.<\/p>\n
A reminder of Steven Spielberg\u2019s prowess and speed in the latest in our series of writers highlighting their go-to comfort watches<\/p>\n
Steven Spielberg<\/a> was never much of a radical. While Francis Ford Coppola made Apocalypse Now and even George Lucas attacked the Vietnam war with Star Wars, the nervy new Hollywood hotshot was more interested in moviemaking\u2019s toys than its politics. In Peter Biskind\u2019s bestselling book of Tinseltown gossip, Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, the actor Kit Carson remembers running into Spielberg at a party when the tumult of an eventful 1968 presidential campaign was at fever pitch. \u201cEverybody was up,\u201d Carson remembered. \u201cThe revolution was about to happen.\u201d All the young director wanted to talk about was how to get a shot while throwing a camera off a roof.<\/p>\n In the end, it took him 40 years to produce his own broadside against the US foreign policy of his youth. In uncharacteristically political style, he spent most of it drawing parallels to the then current resident of the White House.<\/p>\n
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