dolly parton is one of my faves because she literally came from a household where they had a dirt floor and her father was illiterate like.....she came from absolutely nothing and now she does things like provide books to families with children, and pay highschool students to graduate in the appalachian area

I want to highlight that little bit about Spielberg. I read Drew Barrymore’s auto biography - Little Girl Lost - and she talks about Spielberg a lot. He treated the kids on ET with sensitivity and respect, even joining them in a water fight once. She said that she was shocked when she made Firestarter and the director pulled stuff like not telling her and another child actor about a fake explosion so their screams would be real. Spielberg was careful about not overworking them and stopping if they seemed tired (especially Barrymore since she was only five at the time), but on the set of Firestarter she was perpetually exhausted . She also noticed while Spielberg looked her in the eye and really talked to her, the director of Firestarter completely ignored her and never made eye contact. She mentioned to another actress “I loved making ET, but I hate this.” The other actress told Barrymore “Doing a Spielberg movie ruins you for all other directors.” Spielberg became like surrogate father to Barrymore, and she spent a lot of time at his house with his family growing up. She said it was the only place she felt like she could be a kid. The set of ET was the only Hollywood experience where she was treated like a child and not a commodity.

Shockingly…. no.  I looked it up, and apparently she had her own title for like a decade, and got lost in the shuffle when DC bought Quality comics so they could get Plastic Man. Apparently, she was also a consistent badass.