Sponsored Content: 'Steven Spielberg' by Molly Haskell, an Excerpt

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If he felt like an outsider in New Jersey, he would feel like an extraterrestrial in Arizona, living in a Phoenix suburb on the fringe of the desert. Over the course of thirteen years, he lived in three different places, but he considered Scottsdale, where he lived from age nine to sixteen, his real home. The Spielbergs bought a ranch house in a brand new and upwardly mobile development called Arcadia, as middle-American as you could get and anchored in all the unthinking bigotries of the fifties. Women hadn’t begun to shed their Donna Reed aprons and deconstruct the Feminine Mystique, except for one notoriously nonconformist “Lee,” who, for all her assimilationist fervor, was nonplussed by the sheer conventionality of the place.

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