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• The film was shot chronologically, so the child actors would be more emotionally involved in the story. • In the lead role of Elliot, Henry Thomas nailed his audition for the part by crying on command. He later said he was able to accomplish this by remembering the emotions he felt on the day his beloved dog died. • Drew Barrymore was only six years old when she got the role as Elliot’s little sister Gertie. Spielberg was impressed with her lively ability to spin tall tales during audition interviews. • Spielberg originally wanted M&Ms to be used as the bait for E.T. to follow from the shed to Elliot's house. The Mars Company said no; they didn’t want their product associated with an “ugly alien.” So producers approached the Hershey Company instead. Hershey had just introduced a new candy called Reese’s Pieces and they jumped at the chance to have such advertising. Hershey paid Universal $1 million for the product placement, and subsequently reported a 65% increase in profits from Reese’s Pieces just two weeks after the film opened.

• The story weaves through a series of crises, including the death of E.T. and his miraculous recovery, close calls with the persistent government henchmen, telekinesis and a flying bicycle. It concludes with a panicked rush to get E.T. to a rendezvous point where he is reunited • E.T. opened in over a thousand theaters on June 11, 1982 to an $11.8 million weekend, with his alien counterparts and whisked away in increasing its take on the next several the spaceship as the ADVERTISING secret service arrives. PROOF consecutive weekends. The movie stayed near • Steven Spielberg had recently provided the topPROOF of the box office all summer Final ADVERTISING Changes DUE: 5:00charts p.m.. Columbia Pictures with the blockbuster “Close Please review carefully. Double check:  Phone long. Number(s)  Spelling  Prices  Hours It then went on to play 52 weeks straight, Encounters”Final and wasChanges shocked whenDUE: they turned 5:00 p.m.. raking in over $350 million. It was re-released your Tidbits representative immediately with changes or corrections. down theContact chance produceDouble “E.T.”check: Columbia Please review to carefully.  Phonein Number(s)  Spelling  Prices  Hours 1985 taking in Fax: another $40 million. A 20th Office: 760-320-0997 email: valleybits@msn.com 760-320-1630 executives thought it would only appeal to anniversary re-release generated still another Contacttoo your Tidbits with changes or corrections. young children, narrow of representative a niche. Instead,immediately $35 million. It was the highest grossing film of Office: 760-320-0997 Fax: 760-320-1630 the film went to Universal Pictures. email: valleybits@msn.com 1982 and became the most successful movie in Manhattan In The Desert • E.T. was played variously by an animatronic film history until Spielberg topped that record 1/6 pg. 4C [media trade] puppet, a dwarf in a suit, and a 12-year-old actor with “Jurassic Park” 11 years later.  July 12, 2020 • Vol. 16 - No. 29

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• A man named Pliny the Younger witnessed the • In 1748, a man digging a well discovered a large trove of marble and alabaster buried in eruption from his position across the Bay of the volcanic dirt. Don Carlos, King of Naples, Naples, some 20 miles away, and wrote about hired men to dig it all up because he needed it in a series of letters to a friend. These letters it for an elegant new home he was building. were discovered in the 1500s and preserved. During the excavation, workers uncovered Meanwhile, his uncle Pliny the Elder who was three beautiful statues of women, which were a fleet commander in the Royal Navy, sailed much admired by the new queen of the area. his ship into Pompeii's harbor in an effort to She asked Don Carlos to search for more rescue some relatives. But his ship was heavily statues for her collection. bombarded with ash and falling rock. He was overcome by gasses and heat and died soon • Thus began the first major excavation. In 1763 after reaching the harbor. His crew abandoned the inscription “Rei publicae Pompeianorum” the quest and tried to flee to safety. was found that identified the site as Pompeii. Over the next hundred years, various rulers • The eruption period lasted for about 24 hours, ordered more excavations, and the booty unbut the city continued to be blanketed by the covered ended up in various peoples’ pockets. aftermath of molten rock and thick ash for two Not till 1860 did an organized reconstruction more days. When it was all over, the entire city attempt begin. was buried, in some areas up to 23 feet deep.

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length of time knows that I have occasionally been critical of some of my former colleagues at the Social Security Administration for misleading people with misinformation about Social Security programs and policies. But I totally understand that, many times, people who tell me they have been misled by an SSA representative have, in fact, received good information from the agency. But they have not understood what they were told. Or they misinterpreted something that was explained to them, leaving them all befuddled and confused. And then they write to me to complain that SSA reps have led them astray -- when, in fact, they haven’t. Today’s questions provide examples of that. Q: I have been so misled by SSA reps. I don’t know where to turn. I will be 68 in August, and I wanted my Social Security checks to start then. So, I filed and said I want my checks to start in September (because I know the August check comes in September). I had previously calculated my benefit myself and figured I will get $2,385, and that includes the 16% bonus I was due for waiting until age 68 to file. So, imagine my shock when I got a letter from the SSA telling me my first check would come in October and that I would only get $2,170. I called SSA’s 800 number im-

mediately. The first person told me my benefit would be recalculated in 2021. What’s that about? Then I called back because I forgot to ask about my checks starting in October, and a different guy told me that’s what I asked for on my application. I did not do that! I got so mad I hung up. But then I called back and got a third person, and she told me I could have gotten back pay and suggested I change my application to start my benefits in Januar y. I thought that sounded like a good idea until she told me I’d get a smaller check. I got so confused I just hung up again. Why can’t the people at the SSA get their stories straight? Why are they lying to me?

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ed. I turned 62 on June 23 and applied over the phone for my Social Security benefits to start then. I know Social Security checks come a month late. So, I expected my first check to show up in July. But the SSA clerk I talked to told me my first check wouldn’t come until August. She couldn’t explain why, and I just assumed she was wrong. But I just received my official benefit letter from the SSA, and it says my first check won’t show up until Aug. 26! Why am I being cheated out of one month’s Social Security check? A: You aren’t being cheated out of anything. It’s too bad the Social Security representative couldn’t explain the rules to you. But now I will. In the 1980s, the Reagan administration and Congress were looking for some ways to save a few nickels in Social Security outlays. And one of the little gimmicks they came up with was a law that says you must be 62 for an entire month before you can get your first Social Security check. You turned 62 near the end of June, so that means July is the first month that you are age 62 for the whole month.Ad So, Proof: the July check is the first John Cuddihy Flags “A” Flying one you are due. And based on your day of birth, the July check will be sent to you on Biz Card, BW, 26x ratethe fourth Wednesday in August. Corrections due by: 5 pm, Mon., 6/19/17 * * * ADVERTISING PROOF If you have a Social Security question, Tom Final Changes DUE: 5:00 p.m..

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It’s hard to fathom how low some criminals will go. Right in the middle of the COVID crisis, a respiratory therapist working for the Department of Veterans Affairs was nabbed for theft. Hospitals DEAR DR. ROACH: My husband had were sweating out having enough space and equiphis gallbladder removed many years ago. In ment to take care of patients, and medical personthe past few years, he has had six ERCPs to nel were struggling to find enough protective gear remove gallstones from his bile duct, as he is for themselves. So what was this respiratory therastill making them. He has been told to drink pist doing? He was stealing ventilators and selling lots of water but that there is no preventive them on eBay. remedy. Do you have any suggestions for He stole not only ventilators but bronchohow to prevent these gallstones from formscopes and other respiratory support equipment -ing? -- B.A.P. just the medical stuff COVID patients need to keep breathing while their bodies heal. Among other ANSWER: Irritable bowel syndrome is ANSWER: Ordinarily, removing the things, he sold on eBay a whopping five ventilators a common problem, found more frequently in gallbladder stops new gallstones from forming. in two critical months -- March and April -- right in women, that ranges from annoying to life-changHaving a gallstone left after surgery is not unthe middle of the COVID chaos. ing. Although it does not predispose to cancer or common, but it is very uncommon for people to Staff at the VA hospital knew the items reduce life expectancy, IBS can have dramatic make multiple new stones years after surgery. were missing, of course, and had reported each effects on a person’s social and work lives. One possibility is a diverticulum of the instance. They probably did a daily count of mate The hallmarks of IBS are bowel changes common bile duct. The common bile duct drains rials, worried about how they would cope with an (diarrhea, constipation or sometimes both, alterbile from the liver and gallbladder into the small influx of patients. Then someone thought to check nating) and abdominal discomfort. The discomintestine; it drains pancreatic fluid, too. A diverticsales of those medical items on eBay, and there fort is usually described as cramping, but it is not ulum is a blind pouch. It’s possible for a stone to they were. unheard of to be described as sharp or stabbing. form there, so you should find out if he has one. The VA Office of Inspector General stepped I believe a colonoscopy is appropriate to They should have seen it on one of the ERCPs in, as well as the U.S. attorney. The suspect initially Please review carefully. Spelling  Prices  Hours sure IBS isnot actually a different problem, (a special endoscopy that looksDouble at the check: bile and PhonebeNumber(s) denied involvement, of course. Criminals always such aswith inflammatory bowel disease. Black or pancreatic ducts). If present, a diverticulum can immediately Contact your Tidbits representative changes or corrections. do. He said someone else was using that seller bloody stools would be concerning for IBD not be removed Office: surgically. name on eBay, that he hadn’t stolen anything, even 760-320-0997 email: valleybits@msn.com Fax: 760-320-1630 IBS. I asked my colleague at Weill Cornell, Dr. though eBay listings and IP addresses traced di Your symptoms are not typical for colon Arun Jesudian, for his expertise, and he said he rectly back to his house. cancer, which often has no symptoms until it is has seen multiple stones in the liver due to para Search warrant in hand, the authorities quite advanced, which is what makes regular sitic infections, often in Asian patients. That may collected all manner of stolen medical equipment screening so important. require surgical treatment. He also discussed from the guy’s house, including CPAP machines doing a sphincterotomy, which is a procedure LifeStream Blood Bank and masks, ventilation tubes and more. EBay sales * * * to open the end offrom the common duct, to let 1/4 pg. [Converted Back Pg. bile layout] Dr. Roach regrets that he is unable to answer records were found, complete with serial numbers stones pass through easily. Your husband may individual letters, but will incorporate them in the column PSA - Comp of the missing items. The U.S. Attorney’s Office benefit fromVol. expanding whenever possible. Readers may email questions to July 5, 2020 16 - No.it.28 spoke with buyers of some of the equipment. ToYourGoodHealth@med.cornell.edu. Finally, there is a medication to reduce But one piece of the evidence was damning. The final nail in the crook’s coffin was his own cellphone with photos of some of the items he stole. Theft of government property can net a ten-year prison sentence. Hopefully, that ten years will apply to each individual piece of equipment this self-serving criminal stole. *** Freddy Groves regrets that he cannot person-

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