Alexandra (Alex) Schwartz

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352 appearances 14 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 21 Aug

Alexandra (Alex) Schwartz’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The New Yorker Radio Hour · From Critics at Large: Steve Spielberg's Blockbusters · 23 Jun 2026 podcast

Not as cute as E.T., but cute.

Aliens who want to make contact, who are benevolent figures.

It has the stuff, Vincent, that you mentioned that's going to be important for Disclosure Day also, where there's a government body that doesn't want people to know things.

It's trying to keep people in the dark.

But there is a benevolence and a hopefulness there.

to this movie.

Oh, of course.

Lara Fox is home on her kitchen TV in, I want to say, 1997.

Yeah, I had not been allowed to see this.

I was mesmerized, absolutely mesmerized.

And I didn't understand.

I was watching something that had grossed $1.058 billion.

$1 billion.

I mean, my lord, did people love this film.

And again, what Spielberg is so good at is bringing the human to the fore in these extreme situations.

sci-fi kind of circumstances.

And Jurassic Park does that in an amazing way.

I remember the dinosaurs when I think of Jurassic Park.

But what I really think about is Laura Dern and Jeff Goldblum and the people and how they faced this situation.

And that's what makes a great blockbuster.

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