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Post by uforn on Jun 7, 2011 15:14:07 GMT 1
Spielberg confirms Reagan ET comment The rumors are finally confirmed, during a special screening of ET: The Extra-Terrestrial at the White house in 1982, Ronald Reagan did make a comment about everything in the movie being true. However, Spielberg says he is pretty sure Reagan was only joking around. Quint (aka Eric Vespe) of Ain’t It Cool News used the promotional push for Spielberg’s new movie, Super 8, as an excuse to get an interview with Spielberg to talk about Quint’s favorite movie, Jaws. At end of the very long interview, Quint asked Spielberg about the rumor that Reagan had whispered to Spielberg that ETs were real during the movie screening, and for the first time ever, Spielberg commented on the incident. Ronald and Nancy Reagan speaking with Spielberg after the screening of ET. (image credit: Ronald Reagan Library) An excerpt from the interview: Quint: Now, I’ve heard a story that I wanted to run by you. I have no idea if it’s true, but an effects friend of mine told me about a special screening of E.T. for Ronald Reagan. Have you heard this story?
Steven Spielberg: I was there!
Quint: The story I heard is that when Reagan saw it he started talking about how close to reality it was and he was quickly ushered out of the room. Is that true?
Steven Spielberg: No, he wasn’t ushered out of the room. He was the President of the United States! Nobody could usher Ronald Reagan out of the room! It was in the White House screening room and Reagan got up to thank me for bringing the film to show the President, the First Lady and all of their guests, which included Sandra Day O’Connor in her first week of as a Justice of the Supreme Court, and it included some astronauts… I think Neil Armstrong was there, I’m not 100% certain, but it was an amazing, amazing evening.
He just stood up and he looked around the room, almost like he was doing a headcount, and he said, “I wanted to thank you for bringing E.T. to the White House. We really enjoyed your movie,” and then he looked around the room and said, “And there are a number of people in this room who know that everything on that screen is absolutely true.”
And he said it without smiling! But he said that and everybody laughed, by the way. The whole room laughed because he presented it like a joke, but he wasn’t smiling as he said it.
The room did laugh and then later on I’ll never forget my conversation with the President. He pulled me aside, he said… and I can’t do Reagan. I wish I could do that breathy, wonderful voice of his… And Nancy Reagan was standing right next to him and the President said to me, “I only have one criticism about your movie,” and I said “What’s that?” He said, “How long were the end credits?” I said, “Oh, I don’t know. Maybe three, three and a half minutes?” He said, “In my day, when I was an actor, our end credits were maybe 15 seconds long.”
He said, “Why don’t you let everybody get a credit… three and a half, four minutes, that’s fine, but only show that inside the industry, but throughout the rest of the country reduce your credits to 15 seconds at the end?” Nancy Reagan turned to him and said, “Oh, Ronny, they can’t do that. You know that.” And he went, “Oh, yes, yes. I suppose.” (laughs) That was the extent of my conversation about that. That was his only criticism, he felt the end credits were too long!
Quint: So, do you think he actually let something slip there?
Steven Spielberg: I don’t think he let something slip there, no. I think he delivered a joke without smiling, without a little bit of a twinkle behind the joke. I think the joke landed because everybody laughed, but because I’m a little bit of a Ufologist I was hoping that there was something more to the joke than met my eye. I’m sorry to say I think he was simply trying to tell a joke. |
Listen to the interview here static3.aintitcool.com/assets2011/SSc7.mp3It was also interesting to see Spielberg referring to himself as a Ufologist. We have written about Spielberg’s comments on UFOs before, and will be featuring more, including a new picture we received from the Reagan library, in the next issue of Open Minds Magazine. For more about Reagan and UFOs, including the rumors that have been floating around up until now on this, visit PresidentialUFO.com www.presidentialufo.com/ronald-reagan and read our previous web story here www.openminds.tv/ronald-reagans-ufo-sightings-and-alien-fantasy/Source: www.openminds.tv/spielberg-confirms-reagan-705/
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Post by aurora1876 on Jun 8, 2011 12:28:33 GMT 1
I always wondered about this story. I had heard so many versions of it, that it is good to be finally cleared up by the man himself. President Reagan was supposed to have let many things "slip" which he shouldnt have over his tenure, and it always bugged me about his Altzheimers disease. Call me totally paranoid, but a lot of things could be covered up by blaming his comments on the onset of Altsheimers. I always had the feeling he "contracted" this disease artificially, somehow.
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Post by uforn on Jun 8, 2011 12:39:40 GMT 1
I always wondered about this story. I had heard so many versions of it, that it is good to be finally cleared up by the man himself. President Reagan was supposed to have let many things "slip" which he shouldnt have over his tenure, and it always bugged me about his Altzheimers disease. Call me totally paranoid, but a lot of things could be covered up by blaming his comments on the onset of Altsheimers. I always had the feeling he "contracted" this disease artificially, somehow. Ive always wondered what Spielberg know's, I watched close encounters of the third kind a week or two ago and there is so many things ion that film that ring true with the phenomena its uncanny. Either he has done a hell of alot of research or he has had inside information. Below is Ronald Reagan's speech about UFO Alien at UN. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QK-XATA-5gs
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Post by uforn on Jun 14, 2011 14:58:25 GMT 1
Confirming another Reagan obsession by Billy Cox This weekend’s premiere of “Super 8” triggers the latest round of Steven Spielberg’s fascination with extraterrestrials. His “Falling Skies” series begins June 19 on TNT, and the Spielberg-produced “Cowboys and Aliens” is scheduled for July 29. What’s got the small circles buzzing this week is how he unexpectedly divulged the details of a White House scene following his 1982 screening of “E.T.” for Ronald Reagan. Rumors about their encounter went public in 1987, when researcher Bill Moore announced at a MUFON conference how, after the film ended, the president confided to the young director, “You know, there aren’t six people in this room who know how true this really is.” Were it not for Reagan’s repeated allusions to space aliens during the ‘80s, the remark might’ve been dismissed as an early Alzheimer’s moment. But a number of nerds, including yours truly, attempted to verify the incident by contacting Spielberg’s office. And we all got blown off by PR flacks (“Mr. Spielberg does not wish to discuss any private conversation held with the President”) for the next 20 years. Suddenly, on Monday, Spielberg revisited that moment when directly questioned by film critic Eric Vespe, and he was quite specific in correcting the record. “[Reagan] just stood up and he looked around the room, almost like he was doing a headcount,” Spielberg recalled, “and he said, ‘I wanted to thank you for bringing E.T. to the White House. We really enjoyed your movie,’ and then he looked around the room and said, ‘And there are a number of people in this room who know that everything on that screen is absolutely true.’” The kicker: “And he said it without smiling! But he said that and everybody laughed, by the way,” Spielberg said. “The whole room laughed because he presented it like a joke, but he wasn’t smiling as he said it.” The “Close Encounters” director proceeded to slough it off as a joke as well. And maybe that’s it. Sometimes a cigar is just cigar. But in a field as contentious as UFOs, some folks are naturally suspicious. Take Robbie Graham. A graduate of the New York Film Academy who also holds a cinema studies masters degree, Graham is a doctoral candidate at the University of Bristol whose dissertation concerns Hollywood’s historical relationship with ET themes. He writes a Silver Screen Saucers blog and his take on Vespe’s interview is headlined, “Reagan wasn’t joking, and Spielberg knows it.” Graham argues that Spielberg was caught off guard by Vespe’s line of questioning, that he was compelled to answer truthfully, but was obliged to downplay its significance due to his reputation for discretion. “If I were a betting man,” he added in an email to De Void, “I would bet good money that Spielberg will at some point have asked his close friends the Clintons about the UFO issue. As we know, Bill Clinton dropped a lot of hints publicly about UFOs and was frustrated about his lack of access to classified UFO information. “And so I’d also bet good money that, behind closed doors, Bill Clinton has strongly indicated to his friend Spielberg that, yes, the UFO issue is very real, and very serious. I’m not suggesting Spielberg’s ‘inside knowledge’ goes beyond such an admission on Clinton’s part, but that in itself would be good reason for Spielberg to tread very carefully on the UFO subject with journalists.” Bottom line: Great way to promote a movie. Source: devoid.blogs.heraldtribune.com/11927/confirming-another-reagan-obsession/
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Post by meldrew on Jun 30, 2011 20:01:29 GMT 1
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