Phoning home again: ‘E.T.’ 30 years later

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — How old is too old to sob like a little girl at “E.T. — the Extra-Terrestrial”? Not 40, apparently.

The Steven Spielberg film that would become a 1980s pop-culture phenomenon is coming out on Blu-Ray for the first time Tuesday — 30 years, four Academy Awards and nearly $800 million after its theatrical release. To commemorate this, theaters across the country recently showed a digitally re-mastered version of the film for one night only.

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