showbiz gossip straight to your inbox with the Daily Star's FREE newsletterSteven Spielberg’s 1982 sci-fi smash ET made alien invasions palatable to the under-tens, and launched the careers of a number of young actors.
One of them was to become a serious Hollywood player, another ended up in the centrefold of Playboy, and a third turned their back on the Hollywood life to become a postman.The film was the biggest movie of its time – stealing the record for highest-grossing film of all time from Star Wars and hanging onto that title for over a decade.The flying bikes scene and E.T’s glowing finger became part of popular culture.
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