Steven Spielberg Sexed it Up as a Tween (or My Brother-in-Law is Less Deluded)

In a move that redeemed him in my eyes, (I refer of course to that whole nonsense of David Tennant looking like Neil Finn – sorry Esme & Chad, I appreciate your reading and contribution but that’s just crazy talk), my brother-in-law Pablo reminded me of the fact that Eddie Deezen, popular go-to geek of the 70s and early 80s, can no doubt be the love child of Steven Spielberg and whomever Steve was sleeping with when he was 12 years old.


I mean look at the way Steve is looking so fondly at Eddie’s pic. The words “a face only a father could love” come to mind.

My guess is that Steve had to give Eddie up because in those days it would have been difficult to look after a child while trying to figure out how to direct Joan Crawford in Night Gallery. But Steven probably always looked in on Eddie from afar – taking an interest in Eddie’s career. I can just imagine the fatherly pride Steve must have felt when he saw his boy’s first film, Laserblast. (For more Laserblast info, you really must look over Mystery Science Theater’s treatment of this film. It has to be one of their top ten.)

And when Eddie was ready, Steve said, “Come, young Edward. It’s time to work with your old man.” This can be the only explanation as to Steve’s casting Eddie in 1941. I’m getting emotional just thinking about it. It’s like the antithesis of “Luke, I’m your father.”

Wow, now that I think about it, I bet that’s where George Lucas got the idea!

Apropos to this train of thought – the long lost relatives thing, not the Star Wars thing – my sister Goo volunteered the tidbit that one of the Deezen’s co-stars in Grease, Jeff Conaway (also of Taxi and now tragically Celebrity Rehab fame), is beginning to look like rock legend Keith Richards.

Ehhh. Kinda. Ummm. I’m not that sure.

Maybe if I gave Jeff a headband, black eyeliner and a kicky scarf?

I’m still not sure. More importantly, whatever happened to Judd Hirsch??