Coming Attractions
March, 1978
Close Encounter With a Grizzly: Critics have been praising five-year-old Cary Guffey's performance in Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind, particularly in reference to the child's touching "beatific" expressions when confronting aliens and UFOs. As it turns out, though, Cary's look of bemused wonderment was something of a special effect in itself: Whenever the script called for him to look beatific, director Spielberg had a crew member dress up in a bear suit and jump...
