CINEMA: PETER PAN GROWS UP BUT CAN HE STILL FLY?

FOR 20 YEARS, HE HAD HOLLYWOOD'S MOST PROFOUND AND PROFITABLE CASE OF ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT. BUT THE BOY OF JAWS HAS BECOME THE MAN OF SCHINDLER'S LIST. THE LONELY, PRECOCIOUS SON OF A BROKEN HOME IS T

Steven Spielberg has a cute bald spot--a silver-dollar-size patch of arid land on the otherwise fertile scalp that sheathes his even more fertile brain. When making movies he covers it with a studio-issue baseball cap, but certain formal occasions call for cagier camouflage. On Oscar night 1994, when Schindler's List won seven awards (including Best Picture and Best Director) and Jurassic Park took three others, a makeup artist sprayed Spielberg's bald spot with hair-colored paint. No problem, until half an hour into the post-Oscar party, by which time the star of the evening had absently patted his head a few times,...

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