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Perhaps the grownup Steven Spielberg is the one who sees his immortality not in his films but in his children. "With Amy he had a wife and son," says a close friend, "but with Kate he has a family." The father of the father agrees. "He's a mature guy now," says Arnold, "and the biggest reason is his family. Kate is a smart, loving woman. She made up her mind she was going to get him--that's the smart part. The loving part is how she treats him." And Steven is even more effusive: "I found true love with Kate, and I don't say that with a Harlequin romance feeling. I say it from the most honest part of me."
Today's Hollywood, awash in facetiousness and sensation, would dismiss such a declaration as mawkish. That's why almost no one dares to make movies like the old ones: blithe, serious, fabulously romantic. Maybe this new Spielberg is the one to try. "I'd like to do a romance that doesn't come across as a soap opera. Maybe I should tell the story of my personal life. Now that would make a compelling love story!"
But if Indiana Jones is worth four movies, surely the Spielberg saga is at least a trilogy. He could start by making I'll Be Home, the script his sister Anne wrote about Spielberg-like siblings. Then it's on to the story of his married lives and movie triumphs. And the climax of the trilogy? That is still to be written. After all, for the most fortunate, life begins at 50.