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The mentor who took Steven Spielberg under his wing: “He was expecting surprises, I was a surprise”
(Credits: Far Out / Alamy) While his rise was undeniably meteoric, it wasn’t quite a case of Steven Spielberg coming out of nowhere and turning the established norms of the cinema industry upside down at the first attempt. As far as breakthrough …