I went into his office after taking a break from my trip to Disneyland. I was going with my mom and sister. Of course, we put that on hold for a few hours once we got that phone call to go see Steven, and I went to meet him in his office… He offered me the job right then and there. He said, “Ariana, are you busy this summer?” Of course I knew what to say.

Age 12 to 13 is an interesting age to be immortalized in…. It was a really powerful role for a girl, where I got to save the day and have all this knowledge about computers.

Ariana Richards, Lex in ‘Jurassic Park,’ on Spielberg, Dinosaurs, and Betty White

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SPIELBERG WORLD

Are ‘E.T.’ & ‘Poltergeist’ the same movie?

Spielberg himself noted the similarity in a June 1982 interview: “I think people lead lives where their deepest wish is that something would interrupt the mundane everyday routine,” he told Michael Verona. “And someone (or something) comes into their lives that disturbs everything, disrupts everything, makes them suddenly have to work at life and to live it [to the fullest] to survive.”

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Steven Spielberg on-set of E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)

‘E.T.’ turned 30 this week, so today is all about ‘E.T.’ and ’80s Spielberg!

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Spielberg and friend