Petoskey News-Review from Petoskey, Michigan • 27

Petoskey News-Review Friday, December 17, 1982 Page 27 Movie Cash Registers Sing During Hard Times By VERNON SCOTT "Star Trek II," "Superman "Poltergeist," "Rocky IH" and "An Officer And a Gentleman" led Hollywood to its best summer ever. nomic downer. "E.T.," the lovable little space traveler, has harvested some $300 million in the United States and Can ada alone to make producer-director Steven Spielberg one of the richest men in a very rich town. Other mid-year films, mobiles or expensive appliances could always dig up a buck or two to see a movie. Comparatively cheap movie tickets provided financially strapped audiences a few hours sur-cease from the melancholy real world, affording the luxury of escape in silver screen fantasies.

This year has not been a departure from the customary cyclical movieland ups and downs. Mostly, 1982 was up for Hollywood. Box office gross through the end of November was $3.52 billion compared with $2.63 billion in 1981 and $2.47 in 1980. However, November and December have pitched the glamour capital into the doldrums. Brightest spot of this or any other year has been "E.T.

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