Steven Spielberg

by Joseph McBride

  McCosker, John E., 1

  McDowell, Alex, 1, 2

  McElwaine, Guy, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

  McGavin, Darren, 1

  McGee, Henry, 1

  McGilligan, Patrick, 1

  McMullen, Gerald, 1

  McMyler, Pamela, 1, 2, 3, 4

  McNeely, Jerry, 1, 2, 3

  McQuarrie, Ralph, 1

  Mechling, Terry, 1, 2n

  Medallion Theater, 1, 2, 3

  Medavoy, Morris “Mike,” 1n, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

  Meet the Fockers, 1, 2

  Meet the Parents, 1, 2, 3

  Meir, Golda, 1, 2

  Melnick, Dan, 1

  Memmi, Albert, 1

  Memoirs of a Geisha, 1

  Memoirs of a Geisha (Golden), 1

  Mendel, Barry, 1

  Mendes, Sam, 1, 2

  Men Who Would Be King, The: An Almost Epic Tale of Moguls, Movies, and a Company Called DreamWorks (LaPorte), 1

  Merrill, Del, 1, 2, 3

  Messer, Alfred, 1

  Metty, Russell L., 1

  Meyjes, Menno, 1, 2, 3, 4n, 5, 6

  MGM, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

  Mickey Mouse Club, The, 1, 2

  Micki and Maude, 1

  Midnight Cowboy, 1

  Mifune, Toshiro, 1

  Mildred Pierce, 1

  Milius, John, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12

  Millar, Al, 1

  Miller, Arthur, 1

  Miller, George, 1, 2, 3

  Miller, Jerry, 1

  Millimeter, 1

  Millsop, Harold, 1

  Milner, Martin, 1

  Milton Berle Show, The, 1

  Minnelli, Liza, 1

  Minority Report, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 family trauma added to, 1

  futuristic world of, 1

  personal resonance for Spielberg, 1

  political overtones of, 1, 2, 3, 4

  “Minority Report, The” (Dick), 1

  Miracle of Morgan’s Creek, The, 1

  Miracles of Life: Shanghai to Shepperton (Ballard), 1

  Miramax, 1

  Miranda Rights, 1

  Mission of the Shark, 1n

  Mitman, Roslyn, 1

  Moby Dick (Huston), 1

  Moby-Dick (Melville), 1, 2

  Modern Times, 1

  Moffat, Steven, 1

  Molen, Gerald R., 1n, 2, 3n

  Money Pit, The, 1, 2

  Monkees, The, 1n

  Moore, Dudley, 1

  Moore, Julianne, 1

  Moore, Michael “Mickey,” 1

  Moorhouse, Jocelyn, 1n, 2

  Moran, Robert, Sr., 1

  More American Graffiti, 1, 2n

  Moreau, Jeanne, 1

  Morehead, Hugh, 1, 2, 3

  Morey, Edward, 1

  Morley, Jane MacDonald, 1, 2, 3

  Morpurgo, Michael, 1

  Morris, Nigel, 1, 2

  Morriss, Frank, 1, 2, 3

  Morrow, Vic, 1, 2

  Moses, 1

  Mosk, Edward, 1

  Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), 1 Classification & Rating Appeals Board of, 1

  Mousehunt, 1

  Movie, 1

  Moyers, Bill, 1

  Mr. Wizard, 1

  Ms., 1

  M Squad, 1

  Mundus, Frank, 1

  Munich, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 audience reception of, 1

  family issues in, 1

  historical basis of, 1, 2, 3

  origin of project, 1

  political controversy over, 1, 2, 3, 4

  relation to U.S. political issues, 1, 2, 3

  screenplay of, 1

  source material of, 1, 2

  Spielberg’s reasons for making, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Sword of Gideon and, 1, 2

  visual style of, 1

  Munich crisis (1938), 1

  Munich Olympic Games (1972), 1

  Muren, Dennis, 1, 2, 3

  Murphy, A. D. (Art), 1, 2, 3, 4

  Murphy, Eddie, 1, 2

  Murphy, Mary, 1

  Museum of Jewish Heritage, 1

  Living Memorial to the Holocaust at, 1

  Museum of Modern Art, 1

  My Bodyguard, 1n

  Myers, Mike, 1

  Myles, Lynda, 1

  Myra Breckenridge (Vidal), 1

  Name of the Game, The, 1, 2, 3, 4

  “LA 2017” episode of, 1, 2, 3

  Napier, John, 1n

  Napolis, Diana Louisa, 1

  Nashville, 1n

  Nasseri, Merhan Karimi, 1

  Nathanson, Jeff, 1, 2, 3

  Nation, The, 1

  National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), 1, 2

  National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), 1

  National Board of Review, 1

  National D-Day Museum, see National World War II Museum

  National Enquirer, 1

  National Humanities Medal, 1

  National Lampoon’s Animal House, 1, 2

  National Rifle Association, 1

  National Society of Film Critics, 1n

  National Thespian Society, 1

  National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), 1

  National World War II Museum, 1

  Nazis, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16

  NBC Entertainment, 1

  NBC-TV, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 “World Premiere” films on, 1, 2, 3

  Neer, Michael, 1

  Neeson, Liam, 1, 2, 3

  Neill, Sam, 1, 2

  Nelson, Craig T., 1

  Nelson, Willie, 1

  New Leader, The, 1

  Newman, Mordecai, 1

  Newman, Paul, 1, 2, 3

  New Republic, The, 1

  New Review of Film and Television Studies, 1

  Newsweek, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14

  New Times (magazine), 1

  New Times (newspaper), 1

  New Wave, 1, 2, 3

  New West, 1, 2

  New York, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  New York Daily News, 1

  New Yorker, The, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11

  New York Film Critics Circle, 1

  New York Observer, 1

  New York Times, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6n, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16

  New York Times Magazine, 1

  New York University, 1, 2

  Next Door, 1n, 2

  Nicholas II, Czar of Russia, 1, 2

  Nicholson, Jack, 1, 2n

  Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1

  Night (Wiesel), 1

  Night Gallery, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 “Eyes” segment of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  “Make Me Laugh” segment of, 1, 2, 3

  Night Skies, 1, 2, 3, 4

  Niland, Edward, 1

  Niland, Frederick (Fritz), 1

  Niland, Preston, 1

  Niland, Robert, 1

  9/11, see September 11, 2001, attacks

  1941, 1, 2n, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 casting of, 1

  filming of, 1, 2, 3

  public and critical response to, 1, 2, 3, 4

  Nixon, Richard, 1n

  Nobody Knows My Name (Baldwin), 1

  Noiret, Philippe, 1

  Noises Off, 1

  Norbit, 1, 2

  Norman, Jonathan, 1, 2

  North by Northwest, 1

  Norton, William W., Sr., 1

  Nostromo (Conrad), 1

  Notes of a Native Son (Baldwin), 1

  Novak, Ralph, 1

  Nyby, Christian, 1

  NYPD Blue, 1

  Oak Tree Gun Club, 1, 2

  Obama, Barack, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  O’Brien, Willis, 1

  Observer, The, 1

  O’Connell, David, 1, 2

  O’Connor, Frances, 1

  O’Connor, Jerome, 1

  O’Connor, Sandra Day, 1

  October Country, 1, 2, 3

  Old Man and the Sea, The, 1

  Oliver Twist (Lean), 1n

  Oliver Twist (Di
ckens), 1, 2

  Omnibus, 1

  Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy, 1, 2

  One Day in September, 1

  One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, 1n, 2

  One World Media Corporation, 1

  On the Double, 1

  Opatoshu, Danny, 1n

  Opatoshu, David, 1n

  Opatoshu, Joseph, 1n

  Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1

  Orca, 1

  O’Rourke, Heather, 1

  Orton, Peter Z., 1, 2

  Osment, Haley Joel, 1

  Other Side of the Wind, The, 1n

  Our Gang, 1

  Outrageous Conduct: Art, Ego, and the “Twilight Zone” Case (Farber and Green), 1, 2

  Oviedo, Andre “Andy,” 1

  Owen, Andy, 1

  Owen, Carolyn, 1

  Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law, 1, 2, 3 “Eulogy for a Wide Receiver” episode of, 1

  Owens, William A., 1

  Pacific, The, 1

  Pacific Data Images, 1

  Pacific Title, 1

  Pal, George, 1, 2

  Palance, Jack, 1

  Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), 1

  Palestinians, 1

  Palevsky, Max, 1

  Palmer, Bruce, 1

  Paltrow, Bruce, 1

  Pam, Jerry, 1

  Pantoliano, Joe, 1

  Paper Moon, 1

  Parallax View, The, 1

  Paramount Pictures, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 MTV Films label, 1

  Paramount Vantage label, 1

  Parker, Bonnie, 1

  Parkes, Walter, 1, 2

  Passage to India, A, 1

  Pasternak, Jerry, 1n

  Paths of Glory, 1

  Patton, Helen, 1

  Paul, Saint, 1

  Paulie, 1

  Peacemaker, The, 1, 2, 3, 4

  Pechter, William S., 1

  Peck, Gregory, 1, 2

  Pendleton, Karen, 1

  Pennington, Ron, 1

  Pennypacker, Philip H., 1

  People, 1

  Pepsi-Cola Company, 1

  Perelman, Vadim, 1

  Pérez de Cuéllar, Javier, 1

  Perry, George, 1

  Perry Institute, 1, 2

  Peter Pan (Barrie), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  “Peter Pan Syndrome,” 1, 2, 3, 4

  Peter Pan Syndrome, The: Men Who Have Never Grown Up (Kiley), 1

  Peters, Haven, 1, 2, 3, 4n

  Peterson, Alden, 1

  Peyou, Margaret, 1

  Pfefferberg, Leopold “Poldek,” 1, 2

  Pfefferberg, Mila, 1

  Pfister, Bert, 1, 2

  Phillips, Julia, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5n, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11

  Phillips, Michael, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6n, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11

  Phil Silvers Show, The, 1

  Phoenix, Ariz., 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  Phoenix Jewish News, The, 1

  Phoenix Little Theatre, 1, 2, 3

  Picker, David, 1

  Picture Letters from Commander in Chief (Kuribayashi), 1

  Pingitore, Carl, 1

  Pinocchio (Disney film), 1, 2

  Piranha, 1

  Pisani, Dede, 1

  Pischke, Chris, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Pittman, Carl, 1

  Planetary Society Megachannel Extraterrestrial Assay (META), 1

  Playboy, 1

  Playhouse 1, 2

  Playmount Productions, 1, 2

  Plot Against America, The (Roth), 1

  Pointer, Priscilla, 1, 2

  Poland, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Polanski, Roman, 1

  Pollock, Dale, 1

  Pollock, Tom, 1, 2, 3

  Poltergeist, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 autobiographical elements in, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  direction of, 1, 2

  financing and production of, 1, 2

  public and critical response to, 1

  screenplay of, 1, 2

  Polunsky, Bob, 1

  Porter, Cole, 1

  Posner, Anna Fildman (great-great-grandmother), 1

  Posner, Bernard “Bernie” (uncle), 1, 2

  Posner, Boris (great-uncle), 1

  Posner, Ezekiel (great-great-grandfather), 1

  Posner, Jennie Fridman (grandmother), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  Posner, Miriam “Mary” Rasinsky (greatgrandmother), 1

  Posner, Philip “Fievel” (grandfather), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 Steven’s relationship with, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Posner, Simon (great-grandfather), 1

  Poster, Steven, 1

  Potemkin, 1

  Powell, Dilys, 1, 2

  Powers, John, 1, 2

  Powers, Ron, 1

  Premiere, 1

  Preminger, Otto, 1

  Presnell, Harve, 1

  Pretty Maids All in a Row, 1

  Price, Frank, 1, 2

  Pride of the Yankees, The, 1

  Prince of Egypt, The, 1

  Pritz, Bella, 1

  Proehl, Bob, 1

  Proposition 1 (California), 2

  Psychiatrist, The, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 “Par for the Course” episode of, 1, 2, 3, 4

  “The Private World of Martin Dalton” episode of, 1

  Psycho, 1, 2

  Ptak, John, 1

  PT 1, 2, 3

  Pugh, Willard, 1

  Pulitzer Prize, 1, 2

  Pye, Michael, 1

  Quaid, Dennis, 1

  Quan, Ke Huy, 1, 2

  Quart, Alissa, 1

  Quatermass II, 1

  Quayle, J. Danforth “Dan,” 1

  Quiet Man, The, 1

  Quirk, Lawrence J., 1

  Race, Louis, 1

  racism, 1, 2, 3, 4

  Radford, Bonne, 1

  Radioland Murders, 1

  Rafferty, Terrence, 1, 2, 3

  Raiders of the Lost Ark, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 Ark of the Covenant theme in, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  casting of, 1, 2

  financing and production of, 1, 2

  Indiana Jones in, 1, 2, 3

  Jewish mysticism and, 1, 2

  screenplay of, 1, 2, 3

  special effects of, 1, 2, 3

  Rainer, Peter, 1, 2

  Rain Man, 1

  Rambaldi, Carlo, 1, 2

  Ramer, Bruce, 1, 2, 3, 4

  Rasinsky, Benjamin (great-great-grandfather), 1

  Ray, Satyajit, 1

  Raymond, Julie, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  RCA, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Reagan, Nancy, 1

  Reagan, Ronald, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Rear Window, 1

  Redding, Stan, 1

  Redford, Robert, 1

  Redgrave, Michael, 1

  Reel to Reel, 1

  Reitman, Jason, 1

  Reivers, The, 1

  Reliance Big Entertainment (division of Reliance ADA Group), 1

  Remi, Georges, see Hergé

  Renoir, Jean, 1, 2

  Renoir, Pierre Auguste, 1

  Repertory Theatre of Lincoln Center, 1

  Republic Pictures, 1

  “Reputation, A: Steven Spielberg and the Eyes of the World” (McBride), 1

  Return of the Secaucus Seven, The, 1

  Revolutionary Road, 1, 2

  Reyburn, Wallace, 1

  Reynolds, Burt, 1, 2

  Reynolds, Kevin, 1

  Reynolds, Norman, 1

  Rich, Frank, 1, 2, 3

  Richards, Ariana, 1, 2

  Richards, Dick, 1

  Richardson, Bill, 1

  Richie, Donald, 1

  Richie, Lionel, 1

  Riefenstahl, Leni, 1

  Riesh, Donald J., 1

  Righteous Persons Foundation, 1, 2

  Riley, Michael, 1

  Ring, Kenneth, 1

  Ritchie, Michael, 1, 2

  Rivera, Nina Nauman, 1, 2

  Rizzo, Carl, 1

  RKO, 1

  Road to El Dorado, The, 1

  Road to Mecca, The (Fugard), 1

  Road to Perdition, 1

  Road Trip, 1

  Robards
, Sam, 1

  Robbins, Grace, 1, 2

  Robbins, Marjorie, 1

  Robbins, Matthew, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12

  Roberts, Hubert E. “Hugh,” 1, 2

  Roberts, Julia, 1, 2

  Roberts, Roxanne, 1

  Robertson, Cliff, 1, 2, 3, 4

  Robyn, Robert, 1

  Rock, Chris, 1

  Rocky & Bullwinkle, 1

  Rodat, Robert, 1, 2

  Rodgers, Mark, 1

  Rodney, Patricia Scott, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

  Rollercoaster, 1

  Rolling Stone, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Romancing the Stone, 1, 2

  Romanian revolution, 1

  Rooney, Mickey, 1, 2

  Rose, Reginald, 1, 2

  Rosenbaum, Jonathan, 1, 2

  Rosenbaum, Ron, 1

  Rosenberg, Scott, 1

  Rosenthal, Jack, 1

  Rosenthal, Sol, 1

  Ross, Courtney Sale, 1

  Ross, Gary, 1

  Ross, Steven J., 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Rosten, Leo, 1, 2n

  Roth, Eric, 1

  Roth, Philip, 1

  Rowlands, Gena, 1

  Roy Rogers Show, The, 1

  Rozsa, Miklos, 1

  Rumpelstiltskin, 1

  Run for Your Life, 1, 2

  Rush, Geoffrey, 1

  Russia, Imperial, 1 anti-Semitism in, 1, 2

  pogroms in, 1, 2, 3

  shtetlach in, 1, 2, 3

  Russo-Japanese War, 1

  Rutan, Helen, 1

  Rutan, Peter, 1

  Ruth, Babe, 1

  Ryan, Meg, 1

  Rydell, Mark, 1, 2

  Ryder Sound Service, 1

  Saban, Haim, 1

  Sackheim, William, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Sackler, Howard, 1, 2, 3

  Sacks, Michael, 1

  Sagal, Boris, 1n

  Sagalle, Jonathan, 1n

  Salamon, Julie, 1, 2, 3

  Salomon, Mikael, 1

  Salon, 1

  Salter, Claudia, 1, 2, 3n

  Same River Twice, The: Honoring the Difficult (Walker), 1n

  Sanello, Frank, 1n

  San Francisco Examiner, 1

  San Francisco Film Festival, 1

  Sangster, Thomas, 1

  San Jose Mercury News, 1, 2

  San Jose State University, 1

  Santoro, George, 1

  Saphier, Peter, 1, 2, 3

  Saratoga High School, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

  Sargent, Joseph, 1, 2, 3

  Sarna, Jonathan D., 1, 2

  Sarne, Michael, 1

  Sarnoff, David, 1

  Sarris, Andrew, 1, 2, 3, 4

  Satanoff, Jane Fuhrman, 1, 2, 3

  Saturday Night Live, 1, 2, 3

  Saturday Review, The, 1

  Sauer, Ernest G., 1n

  Savage, 1, 2, 3n

  Saving Private Ryan, 1, 2, 3, 4 Academy Awards and, 1, 2, 3