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For Oscar-winning director Steven Spielberg's 40th birthday, his then-wife and friends got together to make a short film for him called "Citizen Steve," a parody of Orson Welles' "Citizen Kane" that gave actors Dan Aykroyd and John Candy the opportunity to play fictional reporters trying to get to the bottom of Spielberg's story.

The short also served as a platform for Spielberg's family and friends to reminisce about amusing interactions they'd had with the young cinephile. Childhood pals remembered Spielberg's room being cluttered and dirty, with an ever-present parakeet and bird crap above the curtains. His neighbor's parents told the tale of him mutilating their daughter's Barbie doll and throwing it into a canal. One of his

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